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I would buy the shit out of Z10 with a keyboard+pointer. Until a new decent keyboard phone comes out, I'm sticking with my Torch 9800. Also have an HTC One and

by solve 13y ago

I would buy the shit out of Z10 with a keyboard+pointer. Until a new decent keyboard phone comes out, I'm sticking with my Torch 9800. Also have an HTC One and often use a SG4. Wow, awful. And I hate games.

fnbr 13y ago
Have you tried a 9900? To me, it felt like what the Torch should have been like.
- solve 13y ago
  I do way too much web browsing (Opera with the text-wrapping setting) for the smaller screen of the 9900, I think, but I never tried it. Strangely, I can't get Opera to work as well on the HTC One, and don't much like the built-in browser.
Asterick6 13y ago
Why not use the trace keyboard? I know Sense 5 on the HTC One comes with a trace keyboard option. It might take a bit of learning to get used to, but using trace keyboards seems to be a lot faster and more efficient than clicking on small physical keyboard buttons. Then again, they don't provide the tactile feedback that a physical keyboard does, so you can't really type with muscle memory and have to look at the screen when trace-typing.
- JimmyL 13y ago
  >> you can't really type with muscle memory and have to look at the screen when trace-typing. I used to be a devout BlackBerry user, and could happily type out entire emails in meetings with my device under the table, send then, and be 100% confident that I had typed what I was planning on typing. Likewise I could type while walking, and only glance down to see what my incoming messages were. In many jobs, the ability to do that is essential to success. I can't come near that with any type of soft keyboard. Having said all that, I don't use a BB any more - my 9900 died, and I bought a Nexus 4. I was looking at a Q10, but it was $300 more expensive than the Nexus, it still doesn't have anywhere near the number of apps, and I was no longer in a place in life where the key BB features - BBM and the ability to type long emails without looking - mattered any more.
CamperBob2 13y ago
Yeah, you and 3 other guys. That's not enough.
flatfilefan 13y ago
meet the Q10 http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-q10.html http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-q10.html
- solve 13y ago
  No, that's a continuation of the Bold line, with their tiny terrible screens, instead of a continuation of the Torch line.

by solve 13y ago

fnbr 13y ago

Have you tried a 9900? To me, it felt like what the Torch should have been like.

solve 13y ago
I do way too much web browsing (Opera with the text-wrapping setting) for the smaller screen of the 9900, I think, but I never tried it. Strangely, I can't get Opera to work as well on the HTC One, and don't much like the built-in browser.

Asterick6 13y ago

Why not use the trace keyboard? I know Sense 5 on the HTC One comes with a trace keyboard option. It might take a bit of learning to get used to, but using trace keyboards seems to be a lot faster and more efficient than clicking on small physical keyboard buttons. Then again, they don't provide the tactile feedback that a physical keyboard does, so you can't really type with muscle memory and have to look at the screen when trace-typing.

JimmyL 13y ago
>> you can't really type with muscle memory and have to look at the screen when trace-typing. I used to be a devout BlackBerry user, and could happily type out entire emails in meetings with my device under the table, send then, and be 100% confident that I had typed what I was planning on typing. Likewise I could type while walking, and only glance down to see what my incoming messages were. In many jobs, the ability to do that is essential to success. I can't come near that with any type of soft keyboard. Having said all that, I don't use a BB any more - my 9900 died, and I bought a Nexus 4. I was looking at a Q10, but it was $300 more expensive than the Nexus, it still doesn't have anywhere near the number of apps, and I was no longer in a place in life where the key BB features - BBM and the ability to type long emails without looking - mattered any more.

CamperBob2 13y ago

Yeah, you and 3 other guys. That's not enough.

flatfilefan 13y ago

meet the Q10 http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-q10.html http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-q10.html

solve 13y ago
No, that's a continuation of the Bold line, with their tiny terrible screens, instead of a continuation of the Torch line.