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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
I don't think you can even get smartphones with physical keyboards anymore. The keyboard probably just adds extra cost, and since most people are satisfied with a touch screen, it isn't cost effective to keep making models with keyboards. The BlackBerry days are behind us...  |
I've checked and the only mobile phones I've found with physical buttons (excluding the buttons on their edge) are flip phones and ice-cream-bar phones. In both cases, the buttons are in the form of the traditional 12-button keypad.
I went back to a flip phone and one of the reasons was due to the small size of the buttons on my smart phone. When texting I often ended up hitting the wrong button, type a few letters, and then have to backspace several times to make the correction (tapping to move the cursor often was more of a pain that it was worth). Although typing with the 12-button keypad is a bit slower I'm more accurate with it (if I want a space I get a space, not a "b" or "c" or "v" instead).