Comments on: Motorola DROID 4 dual-core LTE QWERTY slider revealed semi-officially

By: engadger

engadger — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:12:00 +0000

“Or forever learn how to stop using the QWERTY
keyboards because they are so, so aesthetically displeasing it makes me
have a mental breakdown.”

They could make it more good looking and even
- more useful (I have to push the keys extremely hard on qwerty sliders to notice my input. On my Razer keyboard I have to push the keys with 55g, on qwerty sliders it’s like 200g or more… it slows me down and uncomfortable)
- more slick (Motorola Razr Maxx proved that one can put a 3300 mAh battery to a phone than 8.99 mm thin. The largest battery ever in a smartphone, including Galaxy Note. Similarly, one could build a perfect, slim, qwerty slider with easy keys and large battery, but no one cares to build. But one will do eventually and maybe it’ll be a massive success (if the marketing is right, and won’t come from a start-up without money, and the phone will be practical as hell))
So I just stick with touch-only phones for now. (I did not try Droid 4 yet, but did try N900, Desire Z, Xperia Mini Pro, Xpreia Pro, and all have a not very good keyboard compared to a decent laptop keyboard)

By: Moogie Moo

Moogie Moo — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:28:00 +0000

Friggin Pseudo Cool Nerds Wanna be!! Aesthetically pleasing?
Everyone including my friends and family was really unimpressed with my Computer..
Cause i bought the Good stuff first then save up later for a Premium chasis..
They all went Ohhh.. Ahh.. what a nice and powerful computer you have.. Freakin ass!! it’s the same thing FOOLS! bet this writer is an iphone user who only cares about shiny stuff

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:19:00 +0000

Had the Droid 2 since day one…. Love the usefullness of the physical keyboard. The Droid 4 will be my next phone, when I’m allowed to upgrade next April. Phones with a virtual keypads are useless to me. This phone looks like a worthy replacement.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:27:00 +0000

Technically, that IS on a lap top! ;-)

By: Nerdy Desi

Nerdy Desi — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:23:00 +0000

Don’t nobody dare make fun of mai physical keyboards! > : (

By: Nerdy Desi

Nerdy Desi — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:23:00 +0000

Thank you good sir for your comment! : )

By: Mv555

Mv555 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:43:00 +0000

“Or forever learn how to stop using the QWERTY keyboards because they are so, so aesthetically displeasing it makes me have a mental breakdown”. I know this comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but to me it exemplifies the problem in the design of electronics today. People care more about slick looks than productivity, usefulness, or performance.(In college I worked at Circuit City. It KILLED me that people bought a stereo system based on which one looked “cooler”. No care about sound quality.) A keyboard is “aesthetically displeasing”?!? I could care less what my phone looks like. I don’t sit there looking at it all day. I use it. So I care how useful it is and how well it performs. I can be far more productive when I don’t lose 1/2 to 3/4 of the screen to a virtual keyboard. So to me, that sentence should be “people need to realize the benefit of a physical keyboard so the manufacturers offer more smartphones with physical keyboards. Or we can just leave it with the knowledge that some people (perhaps a minority) like (or love) physical keyboards, some dislike them, and some are indifferent.