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Spanish startup is making an android phone
- Tichy 17y agoStopped reading at "sliding keyboard"
- dreaming 17y agoI quite liked "Thanks to Android you will enjoy a practical mainframe, extremely supple and efficient." "Besides, all ONE handsets are “friendly developer”." Surely they could have found an english speaker to proof read it?
- Quarrelsome 17y agoI just emailed them about that. They got back to me quick. They're going to switch that text around. :)
- voidpointer 17y agoKeyboards really seem to be polarizing smartphone users these day. I am not very fond of sliding keyboards, but some of my friends would never consider buying a phone without a "full" keyboard...
- bumblebird 17y ago"full" keyboard is negated by the fact you need a pin to press the keys. Or have miniature fingers. (IMHO)
- kiiski 17y agoI've had Nokia E71 for over a year now and I've never had any problems with the keyboard. And it's not a sliding keyboard (it's more blackberry like), so it has a lot smaller keys than this one.
- aurora72 17y agoOne can train his/her fingers to press those small buttons precisely with some exercise & learning. Remember we all must learn to use any novelty. There are some really fine muscles on fingertips which are adjustable to perform any task.
- Tichy 17y agoI think the Droid might be converting a lot of these people. I have heard several Droid users say that the keyboard is bad, and the onscreen keyboard was actually better than the physical keyboard.
- iron_ball 17y agoI thought that at first, but I've come to be faster with the hardware keyboard than with the onscreen one. If hardware keyboard input still provided predictive autocomplete suggestions, I'd be in heaven; but even without the autocomplete, I'm using the hardware keyboard almost exclusively.
- hipsterelitist 17y agoThis might have more to do with the Droid keyboard actually being that bad (it is rather cramped compared to the G1) than individual users developing a global preference.
- Tichy 17y agoSure, there are probably better keyboards. I was just saying that "keyboard only" people might buy the Droid and thereby be forced to learn that onscreen keyboards are not that bad after all.
- sown 17y agoHow do people do hardware startups?
- NonEUCitizen 17y ago1. raise lots of money 2. talk to taiwanese ODM (HTC, Asus, Inventek, etc.)
- thecoffeeman 17y agoThat's actually a really good question. Since the PC era of the 80s startups have been software only. Perhaps with mobile platforms opening up we will see more devices from startups.
- whalesalad 17y ago$429 USD. It's really just an HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1), how are they different?
- dirkstoop 17y agoGreat: "Designed in order to meet every user's needs". They might as well have said "Not designed"
- mseebach 17y agoSounds like it's "The Homer" of cellphones. http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/%22The_Homer%22 http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/%22The_Homer%22
- gordonmattey 17y agoi'd like to see all these phones get a little smaller. like down to 100mm x 44mm Nokia 8210 was the best sized phone ever - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8210 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8210