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Looks great, but when oh when oh when will there be a version with a hardware keyboard? I program on my smart phone. I can do that damn fast with a hardware keyboard. Touchscreen keyboards aren't feasible.


What language are you programming in on your smart phone? Just curious.


What about using a bluetooth keyboard?


Too clumsy, too big, battery, blah. I want to whip it out of my pocket on the subway...


What phone are you using currently?


Relay 4G


Samsung Galaxy S Relay? That seemed to be it from googling but 'relay 4g phone' wasn't as definitive as I'd've liked.


When someone revokes RIM's stupid hardware keyboard patent or it expires.


Come on, that's not fair. Absolutely nothing prevents someone from building a keyboard phone. OEM's are free to build any hardware keyboard they want, so long as it isn't a direct cut-and-paste copy of RIM's.

No one forced Typo to copy the exact RIM keyboard.

There's plenty of precedent here :

http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/reviews/117747-image/Moto...

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/hp-palm-pre3.jpeg

http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/att-...




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