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I didn't mean to suggest it would be identical to the 8900 keyboard, just that the photo showed that the 8900 and the 9800 have the same sized keyboards. That is also the size of the not-pictured 9700's keyboard, which is identical to the 9800 slider keyboard, frets and all (as the picture below shows). There's no question that the slider's keyboard is not identical (certainly not size wise) to the 9000 keyboard.
Last edited by JasW; 05-19-10 at 06:06 AM.
05-19-10 05:57 AM - The 9000 is generally reckoned to have the best keyboard of any BlackBerry. RIM did a heap of research on that keyboard before it was released. Typing on a 9000 was demonstrated to be faster than on almost any other mobile phone keyboard.
They only used it on one single phone and then they moved to the 9800 and now the 9700. Both of which have different keycap shapes and are sized different from the 9000. SOMETHING must have happened to make RIM drop the 9000 keyboard. I have no idea what.
Personally I liked and still like the old Curve 83xx series keyboard. Mrs. Pete6 still uses an 8310 and sh won't let me change it for a more modern phone cuz she likes the keyboard and the colors it is painted. Says she can read it easier than my black 9700.
Now, as to the virtual keyboard, it would make sense to use the real keyboard in the upright (portrait and slider open) orientation - so's ya can still use the phone one-handed - and a virtual keyboard when the phone is held horizontally (landscape). I can also see a use for a virtual keyboard when the phone is upright (portrait) and the slider closed (keyboard out of use).
If RIM do this then we will have a Storm 2.x + a 9700-ish sort of combo-phone.
At least that is what I am imagining since RIM ain't called me to say
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