Apple iPhone 3G with slide-out QWERTY keyboard: is it needed?
Filed under: Cell Phones, Handsets | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: July 3, 2008 | 12 Comments
We all know how popular the new 3G Apple iPhone will be one it reaches stores, but it looks as though Apple are already working on a newer iPhone. This new handset will come with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and Insider Apple sources report that there is already a prototype currently on show. Although many of us normal users will not be interested in a QWERTY keyboard, it seems as if Apple is targeting this new iPhone at the enterprise market.
If Apple does launch the new Apple iPhone 3G with slide-out QWERTY keyboard, then this would mean that the iPhone would be see wider business world acceptance. It is not a done deal yet, but Apple has been canvassing the idea to phone operators, they have been asking the question “If you had a keyboard version, how many would you take?”.
There have also been reports that Apple have sent out prototypes to senior executives inside the operators, just to try and gauge what they think. However; the keyboard on these early models are said to have a few issues, which have not yet been resolved.
Myself, I am happy with my touchscreen version, but if they did come up with an iPhone 3G with slide-out QWERTY keyboard, then Apple might just hit gold with corporate buyers. It seems as if there is no stopping the Apple iPhone, many cell phone makers have tried to say that their latest handsets will be an iPhone killer, so it goes to show that the iPhone is still the benchmark.
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woah!! i didn’t no that Apple teamed up with microsoft to slap on a QWERTY keyboard from the HTC Wing/Tilt
i think that a sliding keyboard is a stupid idea personally,
i know that phones have sliding features and all, but also
more and more phones have a touch screen part on it,
so having one on an iphone takes the purpose of being a touch-screen
phone. if you want a part touch/slide phone then go get one,
but i think it would be better to just have an iphone that you can type with
a qwerty keyboard. i also think that i needs to record video, and have live tv.
and it would be nice to simply copy and paste,
and send and recieve multi-media messages
and it should have a lower price, to me $199 isnt that bad but there are other
full touch screen phones that are better and cheaper, so that should be one
of the things to change.
people get mad that they dont have insurance, but there are things about
the iphone that a whole lot of people dont know.
if you break your iphone, you just simply take it to an apple store and they
give you a new one COMPLETELY free.
a bad thing on the money side with the iphone is lets just say you
want a different phone ? well Apple charges an extra $200 to cancel the phone,
and when you get the phone you have to pay a $200 with the actual price
for the internet even if you dont want internet,
so if i want to get an 8G and cancel , it woul be a full $600, and
if i want to get a 16G it would be $700.
and FOR SURE, that is not worth the price.
and there are just waaaay too many hidden fees on the phone
Apple is strict on the phone
i think you really should make that phone because for that would be the pefect phone. Its a touch screen it has a slide out qwerty keyboard for which i prefer. And as long as long s its affordable especially with the econemy right now i would and everyone i know would certainly buy one.
omg i think the iphone with a slide out keyboard is a AWESOME idea! i want a cell with a touch screen and a slide out keyboard….i was wanting an iphone but i wanted a slide out keyboard on it…. when is it cumin outt??? i want is asap….. :))))
suggestion if apples going to do this make 2 different types of the phone one with qwerty keyboard and the other with no qwerty that way everyones happy
Love the Photoshop job of combining a HTC keyboard with an Apple iPhone!
Suggested improvements to the iPhone:
5 megapixel camera, with zoom and flash
option of forwarding text messages
option of cut and paste
videoing
a range of colours, including colour-coding of the front so it matches the back colour.
I was ready to get a G1 Phone but I’ll wait and see if Apple makes some must needed improvements to the iphone. But yeah…qwerty keyboard would be sweet.
A qwerty keyboard would be the icing on the cake! Being that a large part of the market is on facebook, twitter, myspace, texting & emailing the keyboard would make it easier & faster to type both of which are important to this cluster of people (me included).
If they did add a Qwerty keyboard I be interested for the first time. I have already decided that my next phone will be a slide out qwerty.