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[Windows Phone 8 General] gd761:
The ONLY type of Slider that I like for a Physical QWERTY Keyboard is the HTC Arrive. The Dell VP is NOT my choice for the Type of Slider. I Hope that with enough of us who WANT & NEED Physical QWERTY Keyboard is that we put enough requests to BOTH the Providers & the Manufacturers to make them take Notice that there's a part of the Market that is Ripe for the Picking. I put this to All of you. Keep talking to everyone that you know and find out who would also help in Contacting Both the Carriers & the Manufacturers Requesting a Physical QWERTY Keyboard on their Next Phone.
[Windows Phone 8 General] magicsquid:
Good point! Yes, I'd be very happy with a spiritual successor to the DVP, even though Dell probably won't make it.
[Windows Phone 8 General] fatclue:
Alas, a landscape slider is what will probably show up even though those of us who "want or need" a physical keyboard are refugees from Palm OS, webOS or RIM who prefer portrait keyboards. There's a reason why Treos and Blackberries were so popular with the enterprise crowd.
[Windows Phone 8 General] KB41786:
PLEASE Some Company Build a WP8 with a REAL Keyboard, a Physical Keyboard

I'm not an avid poster to forums, but I want to put my vote in to reply to the initial posting. I would have (and will) buy a WP8 phone the instant one hits the market with a physical QWERTY keyboard. It's the one reason I am still on the 7.5 OS. I'd buy one even if my carrier (AT&T) doesn't supply it as an option. I bet there are a lot of other people, not checking this forum, who feel the same way.
[Windows Phone 8 General] gd761:
I'm glad to see that there has been a bit of interest in My Post about Physical QWERTY Keyboards on Windows Phones. Hopefully one of the Manufacturers will be open to taking advantage of the Profit that can be made with the addition of a Physical QWERTY Keyboard.

If you have ever held the HTC Arrive / HTC 7 Pro in your hands and used it to just hold it and to Type with it, then you will know exactly what I'm talking about. It Just feels Right in your hands.

There has been mention of using a Bluetooth Keyboard with the phone. Whether you use a Bluetooth or WiFi Keyboard with the phone, it's NOT PERMANENTLY ATTACHED TO THE PHONE. There are a whole bunch of us that have dropped our phones from time to time. When some of us have dropped our phones, the battery had come out from the phone. The same thing would happen if we had a Keyboard that was just attached somehow to the phone. Also, if that were to happen, then what damage would or could be done to that extra piece of hardware?

I personally use a hard belt clip for my HTC Arrive that I had used from my previous HTC Touch Pro 2. The phone fits just nice in the clip. Even though the Arrive is a little taller, it fits fine. Also, I have to put it in the clip upside down just so the power button is Not sitting under the Spring Clip. Other than that one Issue, there's nothing wrong with it. I also have an Extended battery as well and it fits without any issue. If you wanted to attach a Keyboard to the phone, then you will NOT be able to have or use an Extended battery.

I know that there are a LOT of people that are just going to see issues with having a Thicker Phone, but then there are All of Us that Don't see Any Issue with having a Thicker Phone. As I said before, Unless you have held the HTC Arrive / HTC 7 Pro in your hands with the Keyboard open and used the phone to both Just read and scroll as well as to actually use the Keyboard to Type, like what I'm doing right now here in this Forum from My HTC Arrive, then you are just giving an opinion without Really Knowing what you are talking about.

If you are a Fan of Having, Wanting, and Needing a PHYSICAL QWERTY KEYBOARD and like the Post that I have started here, then if you would be kind enough to send Thanks. I would Really Appreciate it. Thank You All for taking Interest in My Post about a Physical QWERTY Keyboard for Windows Phone 8. Hopefully it would be something that the Manufacturers will Wake up to and Include on ALL Future Phone Lines as another option to just an Onscreen Keyboard.
[Windows Phone 8 General] -adrian-:
Well HTC as well as Nokia do have experience in the production of Landscape sliders and know what they can be used for and how usefull they can be.

I have a hard time at the moment deciding to keep my Touch pro 2 and wait for a slider or going with the lumia 920!

just give us a slider! gogogo
[Windows Phone 8 General] seuthes:
Unfortunately HTC anounced that they won't make a smartphone with physical keyboard.

But i hope that at the ces or mwc nokia anounces a lumia 920 with a keyboard. That would be so great.
[Windows Phone 8 General] To1Fazi:
desperately want it. Using the HTC 7Pro for almost 2 years, it is kind of desktop replacement on the go, especially when it comes to longer texts. As soon as whoever makes one with physical keyboard and best pop all the features you can dream of in it. I am buying it. I believe most people desiring a physical keyboard are heavy (business) users who do not care about the price of the phone so much anyway... So, I really do not understand why the manufacturers are hesitating so much....
[Windows Phone 8 General] imaginarynumber:
That's a shame, if true my current HTC Pro 7 may well be my last HTC purchase. Every one of my phones since 2004 have been HTCs with physical keyboards.
[Windows Phone 8 General] Andy_Bee_1:
As have mine, starting with the TyTn II, through the Touch Pro 2, then the 7 Pro.

I am extremely upset that there will be no WP8 with slide keyboard. I have been hanging on to my 7 Pro hoping something would be announced for 2013...:crying:
[Windows Phone 8 General] gd761:
Sprint is just Now hopping on the Windows Phone 8 bus. Wow, they finally did it. Now maybe they might just be able to have been listening and paying attention to the Forums where We have been crying out for HTC to give us another Physical QWERTY Keyboard. We will benefit from it. Us who do a LOT of Typing on our phones. We have a LOT LESS TYPOS than others that use the On-Screen Keyboard. When you get to typing really fast on the Flat Surface of the Screen, you have no clue if you might be typing the wrong letter or if you might have typed 2 letters at the same time. With the Physical QWERTY Keyboard, you can type as fast as you can and if you hit the wrong letter, then you can Physically feel it also if you hit more than 1 letter, you can also feel that as well. It's sort of like telling a person to read Brail on a pane of glass, it ain't gonna be pretty. Also if you give a blind person a Physical QWERTY Keyboard, they can learn where all the keys are and then they can get to typing. Give a person who suffers from "FFS" FAT FINGER SYNDROME, And have them try to type on the On-Screen Keyboard and they will get frustrated in a heartbeat. Then give them a Phone with a Physical QWERTY Keyboard and then they can type. There are a LOT of reasons why a Physical QWERTY Keyboard is a Necessity to a LOT of Different People. As many reasons as there are people.

So, to ALL of the Carriers and Device Manufacturers;

GIVE US ALL THE OPTION FROM YOUR LINEUP TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE A PHONE WITH A PHYSICAL QWERTY KEYBOARD!
[Windows Phone 8 General] Art4:
Given that HTC has serious problems keeping their market share and position, I'd say playing for the niche market (which in the US it definitely is, not so much in Europe) of providing QWERTY-keyboard phones may keep them afloat in a certain target group.

That includes me. I really don't want to buy an Android phone (maybe iOS) since for me it (conceptually) resembles rather a tech/geek-toy and not something meant for users (despite the fact that I'm in IT)... I'd love to buy a WP8.x device with a hardware keyboard... with more than 3 keys.
[Windows Phone 8 General] gd761:
I'm Not in IT, but I'm a Tech Geek. I REFUSE to upgrade to a Phone without a Physical QWERTY Keyboard since after falling in love with how Natural it feels to have one. As for Android or iPhone, I do NOT like either of them. I have used them both "Not My Phones at all" to check them out and to help out Friends and CoWorkers. Some of my Friends and CoWorkers have switched over to a Windows Phone after using My HTC Arrive - Windows Phone. One of the things that they REALLY LOVED about my HTC ARRIVE was the Full QWERTY Keyboard.
[Windows Phone 8 General] DavidinCT:
Yea, me too, depending on size. I really miss my Touch Pro 2's keyboard. I could actually type full emails with 98% accuracy wile talking to other people (not looking at the phone). Try to do that with ANY Windows Phone 8 device and not using a voice command.

I grabbed a 8X because I needed to upgrade from my Trophy and yes, the bigger screen is better for typing for me (bigger fingers) it still will never replace a QWERTY keyboard :(

I watch this stuff, a lot, and I have not even seen or HEARD a rumor about a QWERTY keyboard WP8 device...sad to say...
[Windows Phone 8 General] -adrian-:
i couldnt wait without any rumours so I changed to a lumia920. but the on screen keyboard sucks.. just big.. just not cool..

takes half the display .. with bigger texts is a pain. as soon as a qwerty comes out i will swap again .. hopefully a wp8 one :)
[Windows Phone 8 General] Art4:
Are there any usable affordable bluetooth/wire(d) keyboards for WP8 devices, btw? :confused:

I'm using my old WM6.5 device for PIM now (yay, I have a PDA again) but since I can't attach images/documents to tasks, it's not even half the fun.

Affordable in this context meaning not exceeding 100€/USD by great amounts.

I'd love a (relatively) cheap WP8 like the Lumia 620 with a snappy hw-keyboard...

(ideally connected with a wire, since that'd use less power and may mean latency won't be too great.)

EDITED

Scratch that... WP8 doesn't support keyboards... go figure. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp8-wpnetwork/lumia-920-wont-pair-with-ms-wedge-bluetooth/3f609369-1909-43ff-a6c7-6438009c90b9?msgId=4c45e2a5-04eb-4aba-99a0-4bb8f26f0550

Oh well... I'll have to wait for either a proper device (HTC, please... ?) or WP 8.x or even 9.x :(
[Windows Phone 8 General] gd761:
Whichever Manufacturer that comes out with a Windows 8 Phone for Spring should design a Phone with a Physical QWERTY Keyboard. What's the sense of Always carrying a Bluetooth Keyboard with you Everywhere? You know that after a few times of carrying it around, that you will leave it behind and then when you have left it behind, you might have to Type a LOT and then will be forced to use the On-Screen Keyboard. After doing that quite a few times, you might think about changing your mind about that Bluetooth Keyboard. If the Manufacturers design and build a Phone with a Physical QWERTY Keyboard, then this discussion will be over.
[Windows Phone 8 General] faizulamin:
after reading all comments here, i also would like to give my vote for WP with physical keyboard. as lot of you here, i've been using Windows mobile since 2005 (hp ipaq) and surrender to blackberry in the year 2011. my last device was htc pro2 and touch cruise2. however my best pick is htc touch cruise. the reason i surrender to blackberry is feeling tired of touching the flat surface to type. thanx to stylus for being a great assistant.

one unique features beside qwerty keypad is D-pad. and until now, i still believe, D-pad is also a good point for a phone.

and also, touch screen thingy eventually will lead us to lost our finger sensitivities in a long run as we no longer pressing something real and physically exist.

my dream device would be something like blackberry's phone form factor, powered by WP8.
[Windows Phone 8 General] jbinbi:
As much as I would love this , I just don't see it happening due to the fact that the whole win8 experience is based on touch! IMO the OS as currently being delivered on desktops with a mouse is a giant leap backwards from win7. But if you have a touch screen device, then it is really very nice.

Making a win8 phone with a physical kbd would be going backwards from the marketing message of touch, even though touch is NOT always the best solution.

I sincerely hope I am wrong and a real kybd phone pops out soon, but i am not holding my breath....
[Windows Phone 8 General] -adrian-:
where is a keyboard going backwards in time? Its not like the on screen keyboard would do EXACTLY the same thing just on another medium. If WP would simply take voice to type i would agree.. but here its the same peripherie just another way of using it.
[Windows Phone 8 General] chinarabbit:
to be honest, i prefer external bluetooth keyboards..

but really.. do we need a keyboard when we dont even have a useful office suite?

how about microsoft hire a company other than microsoft to port the awesome Office applications from Android & iPhone over to Windows Phone8?

then, possibly, i might think I need a keyboard... let alone an entire "Smartphone"

i hereby dub any phone running the Windows Phone 8 a "Dumbphone"
[Windows Phone 8 General] gd761:
First. Get over yourself. This is just a forum and you don't need to be saying that people are dumb just because they WANT A Physical QWERTY Keyboard for their Phone.

This is NOT a Pissing Contest as to Who's is Bigger, Faster, or Better. My Computer most likely has way more than yours, but what does that matter here? NOTHING! So just keep it polite.
[Windows Phone 8 General] chinarabbit:
wtf?

why dont u re-read the post, or are you simply too consumed with yourself?

there is nothing wrong with a physical keyboard, i have one on my current phone, it think they are awesome

but i now prefer external bluetooth keyboards, since they are way better today than they were 5 years ago, and work much simpler & easier

personally, i dont think the built-in keyboard is much faster.. it was ok before the days of the samsung keyboard, but nothing is faster than the patent samsung slide-across-all-the-keys function.. but if you dont have a samsung, it sucks indeed to be typing anything directly on your phone (a larger bluetooth keyboard is, of course, the fastest, by far)

and any built-in keyboard would have to have a row of shortcut buttons, a number pad section, a tab button, esc, a back space, a delete, Home, Insert, End, Page up & Page down.. just be useful enough to bother with

but ya, whats the point of a WINDOWS PHONE 8 built-in keyboard if you dont really have any word-processing power

the fact that we DONT have any word processing power, in MICROSOFT phone, when both iPhone & Android have AWESOME word processing power, that makes any Phone 8 a "dumbphone"

you are not dumb for wanting a physical keyboard.. i'm with you on that one
[Windows Phone 8 General] gd761:
Chinarabbit;

I tried to select EVERYTHING, but what you have after your post is what I was referring to. You should NOT put that there like that because that's what's made Me give you the reply that I did.
[Windows Phone 8 General] chinarabbit:
ok, i see.. i think the main thing we can both agree on though is that Windows Phone 8 can be called a 'dumbphone' from now on

at least that much is clear

unless they create a full Office suite for WP8, that would necessitate that qwerty keyboard we both love so much

we can agree on that at least... even if there was some misunderstanding and we really didnt know what each other was even trying to say
[Windows Phone 8 General] gd761:
I Can't and Won't Agree with saying that Windows Phone 8 is a Dumbphone. I use My Physical QWERTY Keyboard on My HTC Arrive way More than I use the Keyboard on MY PC.

What's Stopping Me from Upgrading to Windows Phone 8 are 2 things.

1. Sprint getting a Windows Phone 8 Phone.

2. Any Phone that Sprint gets, MUST Have a Physical QWERTY Keyboard for Me to Upgrade. Also, it MUST be a Quality QWERTY Keyboard as well.
[Windows Phone 8 General] chinarabbit:
I'd add to that:

3. needs 12 hardware buttons or at least 6 or 8

4. needs to be a samsung, Sony, or Nokia.. i hope HTC dies for their betrayal

5. needs samsung tracing keyboard

6. needs to have myDP

7. needs a full Office Suite

8. Needs to have a front & back hard case made for it by a case manufacturer like Griffin
[Windows Phone 8 General] ananimus:
I'm just popping on to cast my vote. Totally agree. And I post it here because looking around I've come across the Nokia E6: fixed portrait device. If you haven't checked it out, do.

It's a year or so dated now, but man... that was a hot piece of kit. Buttons all over, smallish display, but super high-res. Classic Nokia/Symbian battery life (read: days).

Update that thing with an AF camera, bump to the RAM/CPU and any modern smartphone OS and I'd be all over it.
[Windows Phone 8 General] To1Fazi:
Just to support this initiative: I desperately want one with physical keyboard and being as top notch as possible. I love my HTC 7pro and am just not ready to switch to one without physical keyboard. Everything goes so smooth and fast with it, especially when switching languages often (chatting with one friend in German, another in Dutch another in French and a 4th one in English) or even writing in different languages :D
[Windows Phone 8 General] imaginarynumber:
FFS

You are symptomatic of the things that have dragged this site down over the years.

people ask for advice and you troll along to ***** about things that you really don't give a **** about.

Why don't you just feck off?

You don't care a jot about WP, fair enough, but don't waste my time moaning about features that you would never want to see on a competitor's OS in the first place. just piss off back to AppleInsider.

---------- Post added at 11:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:07 PM ----------

I am now two weeks into owning a Lumia 920 (got fed up with the slow browsing speeds on the pro 7). Overall I am happy with the 920, the larger screen is better suited to the SW keyboard but I have noticed that I am sending fewer (and shorter) replies. I groan as soon as I have to type a number and then switch back to letters... Even worse, not having cursor keys to edit typos
[Windows Phone 8 General] gaz@usgermanlawyers.com:
Keyboard - Speech

I am a bad typer with the on screen keyboard and always like to have a BT Qwerty - but that is just not possible with the ATIV. In the meantime I admit the on screen keyboard of the ATIV is the best I have had. In addition if the message or text is longer why are you not using the speech function? Complaining does not change anything, just look for soultions
[Windows Phone 8 General] imaginarynumber:
If enough people complain then hopefully some body will take notice.

I for one would be really pissed off if people started using the speech function in public to send me confidential texts. Besides, the speech function is crap.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] NissanNick:
So even after this last update the game still freezes after I play it for 15 minutes. Every time... No matter what. 10 to 15 minutes into playing it freezes.

Is anybody else having this problem?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Kcarpenter:
I can't even get past the EA screen.
[LG Nitro HD] Cam R:
okay so, i just randomly, last few days, stopped receiving text messages from everyone, they get my messages but, but i dont get their's.

I dont know why this is happening and it is just annoying, ive had a few friends call me, or message on facebook asking why im not replying.

Anyone else had this problem, and did you find a solution?

im using go sms pro, on stock rom.
[LG Nitro HD] mattman86:
Call your carrier.
[LG Nitro HD] bennet46:
I was having problems with receiving texts on Bell as well when I was running the stock rom. I wouldn't get any texts for a while and then as soon as I sent one out they would all flood in. Sometimes sending out a text didn't even work and I'd have to restart the phone, so if you haven't already tried that, give that a shot (pull the battery as well, just to be sure). If that doesn't work I'd give bell a call

I'm on CM9 now and I haven't had any issues yet

Good Luck!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Jax184:
I was pondering a source of cheap replacement case bits for our phones, when I thought of those fake demo phones you see at cell phone stores. They have lead weights in place of their circuit boards and a sticker for a screen, but some of them use the exact same case parts as the production models do. So on a hunch I bought one of the dummy Sidekicks off of ebay for $5.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190589691759#ht_518wt_1398

Turns out that while it bore a striking resemblance to the real Sidekick, every single component of it was made special. Some factory in China had made castings of the Sidekick's parts, then modified them for simplicity and reproduced them using a nasty cheap plastic. They all have enough differences that not a single one of them could be re-used in our phones.

Oh well, was worth a try.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] iEmDan:
Wow sucks to hear that.. on a side note, dummy phones really costs that much? I didn't even know people even buy dummy phones.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ultraprimeomega:
yes mostly all dummy phones past 2007 dont use actual housing parts.

I refurbished a Palm Treo 700wx with a dummy phone and was able to use all outside housing, it did have some different points like some areas where thin or the antenna metal was missing but all fitted.

but i think even if it used real parts they are mostly molded from prototype models
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blazerboy567:
Anyone else having airrave issues with data dropping or even dropping to 1xrtt? Heard something about modem issues with s3 with and airrave devices. Also getting static in calls. Sprint is no help with the issue got two ctm tickets open and no results yet after a week.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] duke_nukem63:
I have discovered that if you are on the newest modem "LG2" you will have reception problems with WIFI/3G/LTE. I reverted to the "LF9" modem

and I have seen a BIG improvement on data speeds. Always try updating your prl and profile first, if that fails try flashing the LF9 modem as I mentioned and the update prl and profile again any time when flashing in a new modem.

Modem downloads and discussion can be found on the following thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1787677
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
I had problems and pulled the power on the Airave and reset it. Now my GS3 works great but my Epic won't connect.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
Mine is acting up too today... WTF? Rebooting it right now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blazerboy567:
I had to call Sprint Airrave and get them to reset the the Airrave. I was telling the guy there that my data was dropping from EvDo-rev.A:8 to 1xrtt:6 then it would jump to eHRPD:13 then to EvDo-rev.A:8. Strange it did that 4 times while he was resetting the airrave to Stock and updating firmware and such. so far so good. HE said by mid August i want need an Airrave because they are setting up the new network vision towers Aug 4th near my location. Guess i am just in a horrbile coverage area in Lewisville TX. i have decided not to root the device so im not sure i can switch radios on a non-rooted device.

Well that didnt work guess i need to wait on tower upgrades or change radios