Windows Phone 8 With QWERTY Physical Keyboard

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Windows Phone 8 is going to be coming out for the 2012 Holiday Season according to Microsoft. What the New Crop of Windows Phone 8 Phones should have is a Physical QWERTY Keyboard.

For ALL of the People who Also Want a Physical QWERTY Keyboard, Please Post it here your Support for it.

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I'm not a QWERTY kind of person but I agree there should be at least two WP phones with keyboards, one low end and one high end, even if they are the only ones for a year they will still be there for people to choose from

I miss having a physical keyboard, depending on the impact in size it has, I might jump for one, if the screen is at lease 4"

Originally Posted by DavidinCT

I miss having a physical keyboard, depending on the impact in size it has, I might jump for one, if the screen is at lease 4"

After having a physical qwerty keyboard on my DVP for the past 18 months and not using it for the last 12 of those 18 months, I can safely say that I can definitely go without one on my next phone. The on-screen keyboard is really that wonderful to use when you get used to it. Not to mention the extra thickness and having a sliding mechanism that can take a beating that's required for hardware keyboards. The only thing that does suck is the screen space that you lose with an on-screen keyboard.

With that said, I'd like to see WP8 with multiple hardware options. Let the consumer decide!

On screen is nice....

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I would really go for another HTC Arrive (or a similar Nokia device). I love the HW keyboard and Sprint has carried a Qwerty based Windows Phone since the PPC6700. To stop now would be kind of sad.

The only problem will probably end up being, me staying with HTC for the QWERTY, or going Nokia for the PureView Camera.

I know the Onscreen Keyboard is dang good, and the addition of some 720P res + 4"+ screen would make a HW keyboard almost a non essential, but there really is no replacing a goood hardware keyboard when you have been using one for so long. I can still out type anyone I have come across with it. Swipe style keyboards help a lot, but are still not game changers in my use. Other people might say otherwise however so it is just my $.02 here.

I would totally buy a WP8 phone with a keyboard as long as it's high-end. I am sick of low-end keyboard devices.

I know there are those of you that don't like the Physical Keyboard at all. But for ALL of us People that LOVE, WANT, & NEED the Physical QWERTY Keyboard. We are a LARGE part of the Market. Quite a few of us either don't ever go to any forums or even if those people do, they don't post anything. The reasons that we want the Physical Keyboards are these few examples that I have been told from other people that would just Hate to see the Physical Keyboard go away. When you start typing a long letter some times you don't even look at the keyboard because you know where the keys are, but if you accidentally hit more than one key at the same time, you can physically feel it. If you are typing on a smooth piece of glass, you have no idea that you have either hit the wrong key or two keys at the same time. Another reason is that when you use the Physical Keyboard, you get to see the FULL Screen and not just a Small Portion of it. Another reason is for the People that have LARGE Fingers. They have a very hard time typing on the Virtual Keyboard and Very Little to No Problem typing on the Physical QWERTY Keyboard. Every person is different and they have their own Personal feelings which Everyone is Entitled to. there will be some of the People that will refuse to upgrade their Phone for the Simple reason of that they can't get a Phone with a Physical Keyboard. There are other people that will change from Cell Phone Carrier to Cell Phone Carrier just so they can get a New Phone with a Physical Keyboard. For ALL of the Different Kinds of Reasons that These Kinds of People have, you can NOT change their mind at all no matter what you say or try to show them.

I am part of those Kinds of People myself. I have used both kinds of Cell Phones; Without any Keyboard and With a Physical QWERTY Keyboard. I don't like the phones without the Keyboard at all just for the simple fact that it has No Keyboard.

As I said, I agree as long as it's not large. For those people who dont care and dont think they should make them, think about this.

Could you fully type a email or a long text with out looking at your phone ? (dont say voice) I could type an entire email with being about 98% accurate while sitting at a meeting talking to people with my old Touch Pro 2, with my current Trophy, if I am not looking at the phone, I am making lots of errors.

There is something to be said for the value of a QWERTY keyboard...