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Why I Haven't Fallen In Love With The Nexus One: no physical keyboard

• joshu 17y ago
  I am much happier with a Droid than my wife was with a Nexus One. But I rarely use the keyboard, to be honest. NB: I have all kinds of conflict here.
  • Zak 17y ago
    I played with a Droid in a store and the keyboard was awful. Every other similarly configured phone, including Motorola's own Cliq had a far superior keyboard.
• dpifke 17y ago
  Since switching from a Blackberry to a Nexus One, I've found I use my phone to email/text a lot less, and to browse the web a lot more. When I first switched, several people with keyboardless phones told me that I would get used to not having a physical keyboard after a while and not miss it. Five weeks later I'm not sure that's the case - I've gotten faster and more accurate with the virtual keyboard than I was at first, but I'm still a lot slower and less accurate than I was on the Blackberry (or the Palm Treo that was my primary phone before it). I absolutely cannot use my N1 to compose any sort of text unless I'm sitting still; with the Blackberry I could fire off a message while walking down the street. For day-to-day usage, I think the increased utility from the web browser and other apps (Google Voice rocks!) probably outweighs the decreased utility from quick/easy SMS and email replies, but like everything in the engineering world there's a trade-off.