For the last year (when I finally gave up on my sidekick slide) and (thanks to a good friend), got an old t-mobile g1, I have been searching for a good, newish android phone with a 5-row keyboard. There have been a ton of nice looking 4-row keyboard phones with android, and just one very super nice 5 row keyboard, unfortunately running windows mobile.
and today, randomly, while doing taxes, i decided to search the latest news while again my phone force closed (the g1 is lovely, but really showing its age), and there are now TWO upcoming android 5-row keyboard phones coming out!
1. the t-mobile sidekick 4g! of course, they have replaced the comma key with a dedicated smiley button for those super tween texters (i mean, there is a dedicated “<3″ key!), but I seriously miss that keyboard.
2. the droid 3. i have to admit, i’m a little less enthralled by this keyboard (i mean, why not use the alt key mappings for the number row), and there’s no space between each key, etc. but at least they added a row. i figure it’s an iterative process…maybe they’ll get it right in the droid 4!
