Smart Phone / Mobile Phone

obi604

Hello

Im looking for a new smart phone, im my mind, the ideal phone would be a phone that just had the normal 1-9 digits ( e.g. nokia e51 ) and then around the peremiter of them buttons, have the ones most used, e.g. dot, comma, question, space, enter etc. and all this on decent sized buttons, not ones you need a needle to hit correctly, and this could either be a touch screen or normal hard keys. but doubt there is a phone like that out there

some of these touch phones do my head in especially the ones with the qwerty keyboard, I keep on hitting the wrong buttons, same with the phones that have a physical qwerty, I can honestly write a text/mail quicker on the old type phones e.g. nokia e51, nice and simple, buttons are plenty big and did not make mistakes with hitting buttons as well spaced apart.

so im looking for a phone which has a touch screen but also has a physical navigation button and for the data entry a normal 1-9 l keyboard could be used as opposed to qwerty ( i find that a fully touch screen enabled phone is a bit annoying and better to have a physical navigation button to help you get exactly where you want )

hope im making sense, think im just ranting ))

Mimikyu

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obi604

hello, yep, looking for something like that alright

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Davy

Im not sure why you want the touchscreen, is that not confusing the issue?

Have you looked at the nokia E55, it has a 12key design. so not your 1-9, but not full qwerty obviously.

Are all full qwerty ruled out completely, or if you got one with some room/bigger keys it would be ok?

obi604

welll the touch screen can be handy in certain situations
yeah, the nokia e55 is not bad

no, not all qwerty's are ruled out at all, its just anyone ive used, you have to be exact on them and have not founf one with decent sized buttons

globemaster1986

Blackberry Pearl? 9105 is a new enough one (1-9 keypad) or one of the older Pearl 8100/8110/8120 models (qwerty format similar to Nokia E55)?

obi604

im not too gone on the black berries

I know, I know, im too picky

globemaster1986

obi604 wrote: »

im not too gone on the black berries

I know, I know, im too picky

Very few touchscreen phones come with a physical keyboard and those that do seem to have qwerty keyboards, eg Palm Pre and Blackberry Torch and those handsets that are all touchscreen most use the qwerty virtual layout afaik. Hope you find something that suits your needs!

Davy

Have you played with a N97?

Their is also a n97 mini, but it has no scroll pad beside the qwerty. The keyboard on that is pretty decent imo, and it also has touchscreen ofcourse

obi604

globemaster1986 wrote: »

Very few touchscreen phones come with a physical keyboard and those that do seem to have qwerty keyboards, eg Palm Pre and Blackberry Torch and those handsets that are all touchscreen most use the qwerty virtual layout afaik. Hope you find something that suits your needs!

Im thinkin the palm pre could be the way forward

Does anyone know of any place that sells 2nd hand / refurbished Palm pre's ?

other than adevrts.ie or ebay , tried them already and they just seem a bit expensive for the palm pre

Davy

Not refurb but brand new sim free:

http://gummobile.com/phones/Palm_Pre_Sim_Free.aspx
http://www.expansys.ie/palm-pre-webos-smartphone-unlocked-qwerty-8gb-179520/

And billpay on o2: http://www.o2online.ie/o2/shop/phones/detail.php?pid=45

meathgal2010

The Samsung Wave and Galaxy S allow you to change the keypad from QWERTY back to original format ie numbers and letters on the one key.

obi604

Davy wrote: »

Not refurb but brand new sim free:

http://gummobile.com/phones/Palm_Pre_Sim_Free.aspx
http://www.expansys.ie/palm-pre-webos-smartphone-unlocked-qwerty-8gb-179520/

And billpay on o2: http://www.o2online.ie/o2/shop/phones/detail.php?pid=45

Thanks for detailed reply, appreciated.
I do not really want to pay them prices though, was looking for a second hand one - more around the 100 euro mark

obi604

hey, OP here.

Im just thinking that I would not mind a touch screen phone at all IF it had a physical tracker ball or joy pad on it ( so that you could navigate without relying fully on touch screen ) relying fully on touch screen does my head in.

Also, a phone that for texting or writing e-mails that it could be changed to a regular 1-9 keypad for texting, im actually way quicker using the old skool keypad than the querty one


anyone know of a phone like this ?