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What is a good qwerty keyboard phone?

What is a good, cheap T-mobile phone with a QWERTY keyboard?

  • What is the best T-Mobile phone that is both: relatively cheap (sub-$200) and has a good QWERTY keyboard? I am a T-Mobile user who for a long time used my first-gen iPhone, but it has since died. I also have an iPad now, so I don't feel the need for my phone to be an Apple device. So I'd love your recommendations for a phone that will be good for txting a ton, as that's pretty much all I do with my phone. I'm open to any phone that is capable of working on T-Mobile, old eBay finds welcome. Thanks so much everybody!

  • Answer:

    There's a nasty little rumor that the iPhone may be out for T-Mobile on Monday. It's a longshot, but if you liked your iPhone, maybe hold out for that?

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Before I got my work-mandated Blackberry I had a Samsung Behold on T-Mobile service, and I love, love, loved it. The touchscreen keyboard would reorient itself depending on which way you were holding the phone (portrait v. landscape) so it was easy to use either one-handed or with two.

alynnk

There's a nasty little rumor that the iPhone may be out for T-Mobile on Monday. It's a longshot, but if you liked your iPhone, maybe hold out for that? Yep, I came in here to say this. But I thought it wasn't coming out (if rumors are true) until September.

cashman

My G2 keyboard took some getting used to after having used a G1 for years, but now I like it.

dortmunder

The Nexus S is $99 on contract at Best Buy (you can't buy it through anyone else, in the US at least,) and is a phenomenal Android phone. Really, really great.

InsanePenguin

Ejfox -- when you say QWERTY keyboard are you looking for the physical keyboard?

bionic.junkie

@bionic.junkie - Either one is fine, though I think I'd prefer a physical one. I loved the iPhone keyboard because it learned the way I typed after a while.

ejfox

cashman

The new T-Mobile Sidekick 4G is an Android device with a slide-out keyboard. God knows what kind of crap they put on the Android UI to make it more "Sidekick", though. The G2 is their more serious "slider" phone, if you really want the keyboard. Note that there's a variety of soft keyboards available on Android. There's the more iPhone-like standard one. There's also the "swipe" ones where you trace out the letters, e.g., "Swype", on the Samsung Vibrant. You can also buy "SlideIT" (or something like that) as an alternative keyboard, if your particular model doesn't have that sort of thing. I went from a Blackberry-like T-Mobile Dash to my Vibrant, and I don't miss the physical keyboard.

chengjih

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention: the slider keyboards may make it difficult to put in a Big Ass Battery, like the http://www.mugenbattery.com/samsung-vibrant.htm or the http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004G5YXYE/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ on the Vibrant. The Seidio has made the battery life very tolerable on my phone, whereas before, not so much. If you're coming from the iPhone, you may be surprised at how much Android phones suck down power.

chengjih

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