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Keyboards may be useful on a laptop but are completely useless on a phone. You’re not typing papers jerkoff. Step into the 21st century, leave your typewriter behind.

Keyboards on a phone are only completely useless to those who are completely useless typing on them. For starters, many of us enjoy having our whole screen for content and not for the keyboard (especially in landscape!), and more importantly, many of us also are more accurate and can type without looking at the phone with a physical keyboard. There are many reasons to use a physical QWERTY on a phone. Just because it doesn’t appeal to you, that doesn’t mean that it’s useless.

Well for starters I just typed this sentence without looking at my keyboard, it is not a skill acquired by having a physical keyboard, it’s through your comfort level with whatever mechanism you use. Accuracy? The beauty of my virtual keyboard is that I don’t have to be accurate, as long as I’m on the ballpark I can type away and watch as the words are corrected behind me. Physical keyboards expect that you’ll hit the right key, leaving you either hoping you can peck away at the right key on your undersized qwerty or hoping the keys are offset enough for your ET sized thumbs. I have yet to encounter someone who can type faster than me on a qwerty, spelling errors being the main hindrance. As for having the whole screen, overrated. All I need to see when I am typing is what I am typing and the space I am typing in. These are just opinions though of course, but then again so was everything you wrote. I would like to point out though how rare decent phones with keyboards are nowadays. The reasons are obvious, they won’t exist sooner or later. All they do is add weight and size to a phone.

Re: your second post.

My point is that there are some people who prefer physical keyboards, and there are some logical reasons why they would. What I wrote was not “opinion”, if someone wants to view the whole screen instead of using it for the keyboard then a physical QWERTY makes more sense. That’s a simple fact. Whether that is overrated or not; that issue is opinion based. I could make a post similar to yours listing the supposed disadvantages of a touchscreen keyboard, but that would just show that the situation is based on personal preference, not on one method actually being superior to the other.

I switch between an EVO (all touch screen) and an Epic (touchscreen/QWERTY) frequently, and type very comfortably on both. The issue isn’t even necessarily about typing faster (no one mentioned anything about speed), it’s just about what you’re comfortable with. Some people are more comfortable with a physical keyboard; For that reason, many companies still make QWERTY phones. Simple.

Trying to pass off opinions as facts is the work of either a tyrant or fool. Using your whole screen instead of a virtual keyboard IS an opinion. Fact is if you tell someone hey you can have your whole screen but we’re going to attach some keyboard that will add size and weight to your device. Then a choice is in order correct? It’s an opinion, I find absolutely nothing wrong with typing these responses into my iPhone or my GSII for that matter. I would NEVER trade “seeing the whole screen” for an heavier thicker device. Logical to you. Not logical period. I see I am spinning the wheels here though so this is my last reply to keyboard fans. Many manufacturers are actually NOT making keyboard devices anymore. That’s why this device with 6 month old specs has it’s own story. It’s a rarity nowadays. The Epic was also by far the ugliest, thickest and heaviest of all the original Galaxy S variants. There is a reason they scrapped that keyboard second time around.

You’re missing the important qualifier I used – “IF” you want the whole screen, then there is nothing more logical than a physical qwerty. As far as weight, size and looks, that’s all personal opinion. My EVO and Epic are the same size, and differ only in weight and thickness. Obviously the importance of those factors depends on who you ask. The Epic Touch 4G is not the replacement for the Epic, there is supposed to be another model with a keyboard coming later on. This device got its own story because it’s a new device coming to a major US carrier, not because it has a keyboard. Less interesting devices on smaller carriers get coverage here too.