Switch from physical keyboard to virtual on BlackBerry Torch 9860

[Kiran25]

From the past several months I have been on blackberries through physical keyboard for years except I'm extremely much keyed up concerning upgrading toward the 9860 (from 9700).

I would be keen on to perceive sound of a few feedback from people who utilized physical keyboard in support of long time and changed toward virtual keyboard. I'm certain that the virtual resting on the 9860 will be a polite one except still it is extremely dissimilar.

[Akaashath]

Users prefer most of the physical keyboard. There are people (like me) who are not comfortable even with the touchscreen keyboard. But as a process, will gradually gain more ground. That's why Research In Motion decided to redesign the keyboard to make it as close as possible to the BlackBerry playbook. Most notable is the design of the buttons is that they are more widely spaced since ceased to be rounded, could give the feeling of comfort and generate increased usage. Let's see if this change so tiny could influence a future so that RIM can begin to give up their physical keyboards.

[Savannah87]

Remember that there will be two versions of the Torch, because apart from the successor to the current physical keyboard, no keyboard Torch will be another successor to the Storm, in that Blackberry will major on-screen writing, looking at trends market is expected to cope a good portion of sales.

[Langward]

Well rumors (very credible indeed) is that testing would be the first Blackberry phone large touchscreen and virtual keyboard to try to emulate the best iPhone and try to incorporate that through their ranks idle users who like display of videos and music without ignoring the benefits that the push-email and access to documents in real time remotely among other benefits. Such reactions include haptic keyboard that will make the screen when it sinks down and reply with a confirmation sound and vibration

[Baldwin]

The controversy over whether they are better keyboards or keyboards physical touch on a smartphone or any other device, it comes from afar and usually has strong advocates for both side as the other. First of all, and as is usual with many other things, I think the truth is in the middle. ie, no physical keyboards are better than keyboards touch nor touch the physical, but there are some physical worthwhile and others that are crap but you'll quickly touch use while others are completely intolerable.

Continually I have the feeling that the tactile keyboards have a misconception from the beginning. Basically we just in time to 'adapt' the mechanism that we had to remove to the physical and tactile, to virtualized the physical, to put it in some way.

[IkhyThed]

Despite the cane that I'm giving the touch pad, I do not think that physicists are better,

[Usha Kiran]

As for me, the Smartphone is a place where I write a lot, and the best option would be a combination of both, as the Droid for example. It is a relatively thin smartphone which has physical keyboard and virtual keyboard depending on the occasion or how you are going to write this there.

[CRiley]

The virtual keyboard on the BlackBerry Bold 9800 is the most excellent virtual keyboard on the smartphone market.

Currently while I got my first BlackBerry torch, I distinguish that it is not a simple thing to study to write on the display. My fingers were continually writing the lyrics somewhat to the left (or right) that I wanted. I was continually pressing the backspace key into an effort to proper my writing with that horrifying keyboard.

Then I started doing a strange thing, I started to rely on the keyboard. Instead of characters and correct any errors as it happened, I just kept writing. Eventually, either the keyboard began to understand or became understood. Today, I think sometimes the keyboard knows what I'm trying to write better than me.

[Alondra]

I still think that the physics of a device is always the best thing: the virtual one, you can always add, the comparison in itself does not make much sense, because one does not exclude the other, but if I choose to buy a device with or without physical, very physical, why deprive myself of one more chance?

[Radames]

There is now technology invented by RIM and Blackberry Storm is in, where you actually press the screen and feel a response back. I hope that it is also available on Torch.

For more to tell the virtual keyboard is me so far so bad. The tapping went quickly, especially in landscape mode, and you can if you want or the phone to vibrate at a keystroke. However difficult that the keyboard input line and the entire screen takes. On the other hand the physical keyboard handy. But you do not now for every little word that you want to tap the keyboard to expand, but you can choose a time. I find it a welcome addition, but would be no extension without a physical keyboard would have.