I own an iPhone now but had a BlackBerry for a few years. I still miss the keyboard. I miss being able to write longer emails on the bus/subway without stumbli

I own an iPhone now but had a BlackBerry for a few years. I still miss the keyboard. I miss being able to write longer emails on the bus/subway without stumbling on predictive text. I miss that the little flashing indicator light on the device that told me that I have mail. The BlackBerry was good at the things it was good at, but that was also the reason it couldn't grow beyond that. It was a specialist, and specialists by definition have more limited appeal than generalists. The keyboard was pleasure to use but it also halved the screen real estate and had to be customized to each geography (e.g. non-QWERTY keyboard layouts).