Best QWERTY Keyboard Phones
With the surge in demand for touchscreen smartphones off late, the QWERTY phones are increasingly becoming an elitist market. Only the people who genuinely love this style of physical keyboard are buying these phones today, and this is diluting the market for such devices. Admittedly, typing on such phones is definitely faster, but not necessarily easier. Moreover, touchscreens are the future, and it is only a matter of time before this technology progresses even further, and is incorporated into various other facets of life.
All the major phone manufacturers produce QWERTY phones even today, because there are still plenty of people who love the feel of a physical keyboard over touch screen phones. With that in mind, let's look at some of the best QWERTY phones around today.
Best QWERTY Cell Phones
Blackberry Torch 9800
RIM (Research in Motion), the makers of Blackberry mobile phones, have long been the pioneers in the art of messaging and emails on cell phones. Blackberry phones are known to possess the best tactile keyboards, and this enables one to achieve very fast typing speeds on these devices.
The Torch 9800 was released in August 2010, and it is the first Blackberry phone to have a touchscreen as well as a sliding out QWERTY keyboard. This is a far cry from Blackberry's original corporate image, and they have recognized the need to offer more in order to keep up with the competition. Here are the specifications of this device.
- 3.2 inches, 360x480 pixels TFT Capacitive touchscreen with sliding QWERTY keyboard.
- 4 GB internal memory, 512 MB RAM, external microSD slot available
- 624 MHz processor
- 5 MP camera with autofocus and LED flash
- Blackberry OS 6.0
Motorola Droid 2
Motorola phones have seen a renaissance of sorts with the Droid series, right after they embraced Android as an operating system. The original Motorola Droid was a major hit around the world, and the Droid 2 has been an impressive upgrade on it. The Droid 2 is definitely one of the best phones available today, and it was released in August 2010. Here are its specifications.
- 3.7 inches, 480x854 pixels TFT Capacitive touchscreen with sliding QWERTY keyboard.
- 8 GB internal memory, 512 MB RAM, external microSD slot available
- 1 GHz processor
- 5 MP camera with autofocus
- Android OS 2.2 (Froyo)
Nokia cell phones are still the most popular all around the world, but this is a company that is in steady decline today. This is simply because they are not keeping up with the competition. Pretty soon their popularity will dwindle, and it is only a matter of time before they are usurped from the top. They are running on Symbian OS which is an admittedly obsolete operating system, and this is costing them. The N900 is one of their better recent releases though, and here are the specifications of this phone which was released in November 2009.
- 3.5 inches, 800x480 pixels TFT Resistive touchscreen with sliding QWERTY keyboard.
- 32 GB internal memory, 256 MB RAM, microSD slot available.
- 600 MHz processor.
- 5 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics.
- Maemo 5 operating system.
HTC Desire Z
The HTC Desire Z was released this month, and it is a great phone for QWERTY keyboard lovers. Here are its leading specifications.
- 3.7 inches, 480x800 pixels S-LCD Capacitive touchscreen with sliding QWERTY keyboard.
- 1.5 GB internal memory, 512 MB RAM, microSD slot available.
- 800 MHz processor.
- 5 MP camera with autofocus and LED flash.
- Android OS 2.2 (Froyo).
Samsung Epic 4G
Samsung mobile phones with QWERTY keyboards are relatively rarer in the high-end market, but the Epic 4G is certainly a worthy contender. One cannot ignore this September 2010 released model when it comes to devising a list of the best QWERTY phones. Here are its notable specifications.
- 4.0 inches, 480x800 pixels Super AMOLED Capacitive touchscreen with sliding QWERTY keyboard.
- 512 MB RAM, microSD slot available.
- 1 GHz processor.
- 5 MP camera with autofocus and LED flash.
- Android OS 2.1 (Eclair).
