Android with an old skool keypad on the front???

[cptsideways]

I'm not sure if its just me but I'd like a new phone with all the bells & whistles that I can use as a phone! Fed up with touchscreen keypads & slidey out keypads, where you need two hands to use them (one to hold one to type as a rule) I've tried lots of different ones but I still want a an oldskool simple phone keyboard.

What phone/pda/andriod type thing is available with a regular keypad on the front? Is there such a thing? Obviously I'd like touch screen too for internet type stuff, I just want something I can quickly text with or make calls on like you used to be able to.

[Plotloss]

You mean like a blackberry?

Motorola Flipout maybe.

[cptsideways]

Plotloss said:

You mean like a blackberry?

Motorola Flipout maybe.

Yes sort of like a BB but with touchscreen too for everything else

[Plotloss]

Flipout is the only thing I can think of.

[cptsideways]

Just looked at that, wont work in the car in holder will it


There is the Droid Pro I've found but appears not to be in the UK or is it?

[staceyb]

My Palm Treo Pro is a Windows phone with a proper keypad and a touch screen that you can use with one hand.

[Plotloss]

Droid Pro is US only I believe.

[Moose.]

Blackberry 9105 Pearl 3G? Ticks all the boxes apart from the touch screen but really doesn't need it.

[GPR13]

What about the blackberry torch? Keyboard is a slider but its touch screen and the keyboard looks like it can be used one handed as with other blackberrys.

[sawman]

I know its not android, but palm pixi is on my list of phones to have a play with

Edited by sawman on Sunday 28th November 08:58

[jodypress]

You'll be wanting the HTC Desire Z then: http://www.htc.com/www/product/desirez/overview.ht...

[sawman]

jodypress said:

You'll be wanting the HTC Desire Z then: http://www.htc.com/www/product/desirez/overview.ht...

he said he didn't want slidy out keypad didn't he?

[Merry]

sawman said:

I know its not android, but palm pixi is on my list of phones to have a play with

Edited by sawman on Sunday 28th November 08:58

Pixi isnt a bad phone. Although the ui takes a bit of getting used to. The pre is a slider but you can work that with one hand too

[marshalla]

Merry said:

sawman said:

I know its not android, but palm pixi is on my list of phones to have a play with

Edited by sawman on Sunday 28th November 08:58

Pixi isnt a bad phone. Although the ui takes a bit of getting used to. The pre is a slider but you can work that with one hand too

Once you do get used to the UI and the multi-tasking, other phone OSes seem a little bit primitive. Looking forward to WebOS 2.0 in a couple of weeks.

[Mr Will]

Does it need to be a physical keypad, or would a normal predictive text phone keypad on the touch screen do the trick? If it would, then most Android phones have that option instead of the QWERTY keyboard.

[cptsideways]

Mr Will said:

Does it need to be a physical keypad, or would a normal predictive text phone keypad on the touch screen do the trick? If it would, then most Android phones have that option instead of the QWERTY keyboard.

I just hate the way the on screen keyboards work in reality, you still have to look at it to write, the old skool ones with predictive text I can write away far far faster & one handed too.

Can you get wee bluetooth keypads for these new fangled ones?

[staceyb]

staceyb said:

My Palm Treo Pro is a Windows phone with a proper keypad and a touch screen that you can use with one hand.

Just to put the pic in

[Ordinary_Chap]

staceyb said:

staceyb said:

My Palm Treo Pro is a Windows phone with a proper keypad and a touch screen that you can use with one hand.

Just to put the pic in

Horrible.

Windows OS on mobile is just plain awful. Even the HD2 which is a pretty awesome device can only just make it passable.

Maybe Windows 7 will change that but all previous versions are simply terrible when matched against Android/Iphone or even BB.

[staceyb]

Ordinary_Chap said:

staceyb said:

staceyb said:

My Palm Treo Pro is a Windows phone with a proper keypad and a touch screen that you can use with one hand.

Just to put the pic in

Horrible.

Windows OS on mobile is just plain awful. Even the HD2 which is a pretty awesome device can only just make it passable.

Maybe Windows 7 will change that but all previous versions are simply terrible when matched against Android/Iphone or even BB.

And yet my brother has more problems with his iphone, and my other half with his BB than I have with my nice simple Windows phone.

[Ordinary_Chap]

staceyb said:

Ordinary_Chap said:

staceyb said:

staceyb said:

My Palm Treo Pro is a Windows phone with a proper keypad and a touch screen that you can use with one hand.

Just to put the pic in

Horrible.

Windows OS on mobile is just plain awful. Even the HD2 which is a pretty awesome device can only just make it passable.

Maybe Windows 7 will change that but all previous versions are simply terrible when matched against Android/Iphone or even BB.

And yet my brother has more problems with his iphone, and my other half with his BB than I have with my nice simple Windows phone.

That really doesn't mean anything.

In fact dare I say it, it's not even worth mentioning.