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The Blackberry Passport is one of the more innovative modern phones IMO: http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-passport/overview.html http://us.black

by nfoz 11y ago

The Blackberry Passport is one of the more innovative modern phones IMO: http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-passport/overview.html http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-passport/ove... The physical keyboard is also a touch-screen, so you can make gestures across the surface of the keys (e.g. swipe right-to-left across the keyboard for "backspace a word"). I love the phone, and people comment on it everywhere I go. However, it's not in stores in the U.S., and most tech-minded people are quick to laugh it off ("oh blackberry is dead"). Seems like the public only wants a very small number of equivalent players in the market.

joezydeco 11y ago
How well does the keyboard work when it's that low on the device? I could see the thing rotating away from your hands and falling to the floor if you loosen your grip even a little bit.
- nfoz 11y ago
  I've been using it for year, and never thought of that as a problem. My fingers are always holding it from behind (they're not just down low) so it's stable. It did take some practice to get used to the keyboard -- same as my first Android phone did. And I won't say I'm that much faster typing on the Blackberry honestly... just that the experience is so much less painful, and I have much easier access to symbols/numbers which I use a lot. (Swipe down across the keyboard, and this brings up an extra 3 rows of on-screen keyboard with symbols/numbers (in addition to the 1 row of context-sensitive symbols that is normally available when typing... so when I'm actually writing I have an either 4 or when desired, 7-row keyboard I'm actually using). I write a lot of work emails this way!
walterbell 11y ago
They also have an upcoming Android QWERTY "Priv", http://www.cnet.com/products/blackberry-priv/ http://www.cnet.com/products/blackberry-priv/
- w-ll 11y ago
  I'm happy to see a phone in 2015 with a QWERTY keyboard, I only wish it slid out the long side, like the original Motorola Droid series.

by nfoz 11y ago

joezydeco 11y ago

How well does the keyboard work when it's that low on the device? I could see the thing rotating away from your hands and falling to the floor if you loosen your grip even a little bit.

nfoz 11y ago
I've been using it for year, and never thought of that as a problem. My fingers are always holding it from behind (they're not just down low) so it's stable. It did take some practice to get used to the keyboard -- same as my first Android phone did. And I won't say I'm that much faster typing on the Blackberry honestly... just that the experience is so much less painful, and I have much easier access to symbols/numbers which I use a lot. (Swipe down across the keyboard, and this brings up an extra 3 rows of on-screen keyboard with symbols/numbers (in addition to the 1 row of context-sensitive symbols that is normally available when typing... so when I'm actually writing I have an either 4 or when desired, 7-row keyboard I'm actually using). I write a lot of work emails this way!

walterbell 11y ago

They also have an upcoming Android QWERTY "Priv", http://www.cnet.com/products/blackberry-priv/ http://www.cnet.com/products/blackberry-priv/

w-ll 11y ago
I'm happy to see a phone in 2015 with a QWERTY keyboard, I only wish it slid out the long side, like the original Motorola Droid series.