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

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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.

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Plotloss said:

You mean like a blackberry?

Motorola Flipout maybe.

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

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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?

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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?

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Having used windows OS for several years yes it utteryly crap! However most OS system you can squeeze android onto them easy enough - Most things HTC at least