“With limited funding available to get the work done, tough decisions have to be made in the webOS Global Business Unit. Sitting after the all-but-done TouchPad Go but before the fancier next-generation TouchPads is a curious webOS smartphone. It shares much of its internals with the HP Pre3 and bears the hallmarks of the clean and simple webOS hardware design language, but it’s an entirely different beast. This is the WindsorNot, the webOS slate smartphone that never was.” Woah.
A iPhone 3G(S) with keyboard!
Except it doesn’t have a keyboard.
Ah, I just take a quick look at the pictures. The one with the keyboard isn’t the same one that looks like a iPhone.
An iPhone with a slide out keyboard could be nice though for people who prefer them over touch screens.
Definitely – but not portrait (too small). The landscape keyboard on the E7 is miles, miles, miles more pleasurable to use than any touch keyboard.
The problem with the E7 is that the screen is too small/the resolution is too low (IMHO). If they just could get more on to the screen it would be much better.
I really like(d) my Nokia E90 that folded open, providing a screen + keyboard. It felt like a mini computer.
What’s your opinion on the Blackberry Q10? I wouldn’t get one (I like larger screens), but the keyboard is probably quite nice.
Before I picked up a Pre3 (upgrade from a pre2), I would have agreed with you. But IMO the increase in size was just enough to make the keyboard large enough to be usable – especially because the space between the top row of keys and the screen has been increased (so your fingers don’t constantly bump the screen when hitting keys on the top row).
I did a quick side-by-side comparison and the Pre3’s keyboard is about the same size as on my old Treo (680), which I could eventually touch type about 20-30 WPM on after a year or so.
I was (and still am) a fan of physical qwerty keyboards. However, Many people arnt. If they had released this phone then Maybe HP could have gained some traction with webOS. I has a PRE for a time, the OS was lovely but the keyboard was cramped and the battery life… well apparently it had some when not plugged in, but i didnt notice it
100% bad hardware holding back good software