If I asked this question 3 years ago, I’m sure I’d get a majority of responses in favor of the full qwerty on mobile phones. But since the iPhone and the Android smartphones came to the scene, using full touchscreen doesn’t seem to as bad as before.
In fact, full touchscreen has a few advantages over full qwerty phones in some areas:
- Full touchscreen phones enjoy bigger real estate screen since the virtual keyboard is included into the screen. Bigger screens are always better.
- Web browsing on touchscreen phones feels more interactive and engaging with navigational features like swipe, pinch and other multi-touch gestures. Even the Swype technology was invented specifically for touchscreen.
- Changes the way we see and enjoy gaming on the mobile phone.
Of course, full qwerty phones will always have the “physical” advantage over touchscreen phones.
Given all the smartphone options we have this year, would you still go for a full qwerty or a full touchscreen?
well i suggest that all of you pips try the bb torch coz it has a physical qwerty keypad slider and is also a full touch screen…need i say more?
Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro.
I love the full qwerty. I do like the sleek appearance of pure touchscreen phones, I’ve used them exclusively since 2003 with the P800, but when optional qwerty was available on the P910 and P1, I was thankful for the addition.
The problem with pure touchscreen vs qwerty thumb boards is that touch screens require you to look at where you’re typing. Thumbboards remove some (not all) visual interaction since your fingers can feel their positions. Less errors on a full qwerty, less need for spell check that automatically replaces words that wouldn’t have been misspelled in the first place.
I’m currently on my iPad, and I still type faster on my X10 mini pro. I don’t type particularly fast, but bypassing the spellcheck really slows me down.
I tried living with an iPhone… Couldn’t stand it. I had to look at my phone just to text, incredibly inefficient way to text, not to mention always having to watch out for the spell check and bypass it.
T9 touch on the android phones is great as well, a pseudo compromise. Having only 10 keys makes typing a lot easier on a touchscreen. Less looking at the phone vs virtual qwerty. Allows for one handed use of your smartphone.
ive been using my iphone 3g for a year, and shift to BB curve for 8 months… but this two dont like me… so i downgrade to the traditional keypad…
but i cant wait for the nokia x3 with traditional keypad and a large capacitive touch screen…
For me personally, I prefer full qwerty and I like the feel of a physical keyboard rather than a virtual one. I always make mistakes when using touch screen keyboards when composing emails or texts.
BB Storm 2 – best of both worlds except for the touch typing. but hey, you don’t do touch typing every time you create a message right?
get a Desire and an E72 para wala problema hehehe…