The time is rapidly approaching when I will get an opportunity to pester my cell service provider into giving me a new phone for free. My favorite BlackBerry doesn’t seem to have released anything new since the BlackBerry Torch that I’m using, and I’m not very happy about it. So I don’t really want to spend 2 more years with it.
Are you aware of any other cell phone that has a full keyboard? I mean, one with actual keys you can press, not one of these anti-autistic iPhone-like horrors where you have to press buttons on a screen. I do almost all of my blogging from this phone, so I need to be able to type comfortably.
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There is a Samsung Android I got from Credo Mobile. I would never actually write on something that small, but it does have a real keyboard. I have not yet learned how to use it, though, to press buttons while I am on the phone (and they want you to press an extension) — it is awkward to suddenly have to slide the keyboard out and still keep the phone listening on track. If I am away from computer I sometimes send brief e-mails, take pictures and click them onto Facebook, and it has a WordPress application I am too lazy to use, due to screen size and so forth.
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I use an android phone – I’m still using my Droid 1. It has a WONDERFUL slide-out keyboard and I LOVE it. It’s obviously not as fast as typing on a computer, but it does work pretty darn well. No really, I LOVE my Droid. I will be replacing it with another Droid phone whenever it gives up the ghost. I’ve had it for nearly 3 years now, and I’m trying to hold out for even longer. We’ll see how long it lasts. Why bother replacing something that still works?
As an aside, you can up your 2 year contract and keep the same phone… just when you want to replace the phone, you have to re-up the 2 years. So if you up your 2 year contract now, then in 6 months have to replace your phone, the 2 years starts ticking again when you replace the phone. I’m not sure you’d want to negotiate twice in that short period of time, but it’s food for thought. When I was getting myself my cell phone plan on my own, I was really nervous about the whole 2 year thing. It’s not as restrictive as it sounds at first. Though I did have to ask several representatives very specific questions to get my brain to come to the solution I’ve explained above. 🙂
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I love the word Droid because my Kindle works on an Android platform and I love the apps and everything. But I had no idea that the Droid has a slide-out keyboard. This is great news for me, thank you!!
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😀 Fantastic! Yes, I am in love with the slide-out keyboard – definitely the best part. I have the first generation one, but I have been told that the more recent keyboards are even better. I, like you, refuse to use a phone that does not have a slide-out keyboard. I can’t use the stupid touch-screen ones either!
(Of course, I tend to think of my droid as a little pocket-sized computer that happens to make phone calls… my kindle, on the other hand, is my beautiful wonderful “all my favorite books in one place, that isn’t impossible for me to carry, and books, books, only books!” piece of technology. I love the fact that my kindle has no apps, and exactly one piece of music on it…)
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Yeah it seems that Motorola has gotten on to the fact that someone somewhere will always want a smart phone with a hardware keyboard.
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Fantastic 2-2 with or without motorola
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Last contract end I traded up to an android from a Blackberry because I didn’t like any of the options available, so I feel your pain.;-) Unfortunately, I can’t be of any help pretty sure the US /UK options aren’t necessarily comparable, and anyway mine is one of the touch screen versions. I can say having had a crackberry for a long time, I was not happy about the idea of a touchscreen, but I got used to it very quickly and wouldn’t go go back to the Blackberry from my Samsung.
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Thinkgeek.com has a slide-out keyboard you can attach to an iphone or an android that doesn’t come with one. It has lots of other fun stuff, too.
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I have an HTC Mytouch 4G slide with a physical keyboard. It’s an Android. I love it! The camera is really nice, too. http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-mytouch-4g-slide-tmobile/ It’s a t-mobile phone.
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HTC is a definite possibility. OK, thank you, I will check it out.
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