Touchscreen Fones

Touchscreen + QWERTY = Best Phone Combo!

Posted on: May 16, 2009 by admin

With all the extensive and wonderful yet sometimes confusing array of features and functions that can be found on today’s smartphones, it’s difficult to know what exactly works best. For some of us, certain functions may take precedence or importance over others, it’s all very much a matter of personal opinions and requirements. Some of us for example may be of the opinion that having a QWERTY keyboard is of greater importance than having a touchscreen, whilst some of us may feel that the original numeric keyboard is better still, whilst others may think that voice command is their ideal phone feature.

The common thread that links all of the aforementioned features together is data input methods or interfaces. Your preference of course could depend on many things, such as whether you as a user are predominantly a texter, or a caller or whether you simply don’t have the use of your digits all or most of the time. What is my point? Read on.

The good folks over at Nokia Conversations have devised a poll to establish which data input interface is the preferred one amongst mobile phone users. From the results thus far (voting is still ongoing) they have identified the combination of  the touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard configuration as being the most desirable combination. This is good news for the people at Nokia who will at some point (date rumoured to be mid 2009) be releasing the much anticipated Nokia N97. You might think that Nokia would have conducted such stealthy research before manufacturing another significant model….but who are we to tell them how to do things?

For more information on the poll and to register your vote while the poll is still ongoing, head over to Nokia Conversions or click the image above.