Virgin Mobile Gets Prepaid iPhone June 29 > And the point is?

reply to iansltx

Re: And the point is?

I'm with you on the physical keyboard side of things, but as a contract Sprint customer who wants LTE in his phone, my choices are limited. As such, my Epic 4G is getting replaced by a Galaxy SIII. Neither here nor there in this discussion, other than the fact that, hopefully, the screen is large enough that I will be able to live without the hardware keyboard...

I'm pretty patient. 3G suits my needs and I'm willing to wait and see if someone gets this whole "alternate hardware" concept of android. My only small concern is that physical slider keyboards are seen as an "old" feature and only get in the way of making devices more slim, sleek, and sexy. I like small phones too, but I'm very willing to make some size accommodations to fit in a keyboard.

And yeah, a big screen to a phone definately helps, but man...having a sliding keyboard frees up so much screen real estate in the landscape mode. It's actually a pleasure to flip my phone over to type things in simply to have a better view of things on the screen.

Indeed.

As for small phones, the newest crop of monoblock phones aren't small...they're freakin' huge...they're just thin.

Well yeah, they're trying to fit a bigger screen on less thickness. I believe eventually we're going to hit critical mass when a pocketed phone can snap in half due to torsion. Or we just continue flattening phones out until we've got something the size of an iPad that's cracker-thin.