An iPhone with a keyboard?

**cherrichiodo** · #1 07-02-2008 -

Maybe the folks in Cupertino are actually listening to feedback? Should RIM be worried? BTW, the image is a fake as far as I know

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Will Jobs launch an iPhone with a keyboard? He says "definitely not" and is emphatic about it. So that's that.

Well, yes, and then again maybe. What he is apparently doing is canvassing the idea with operators. "If you had a keyboard version, how many would you take?"
And he has taken this beyond just chatting: actual prototypes - not just mockups - have been sent to senior executives at some operators. I'm not allowed to even hint which operators... but I can report that the keyboard has "issues" which are not yet resolved.

In another part of the forest, of course, Apple's rivals have the opposite problem. They want touch-screen technology and they are working hard on it. And they, too, have "issues" with making it work properly.

Sources inside one operator say that there definitely will not be a slide-out keyboard this year. But, I'm told, they are definitely expecting to see one, aimed specifically at corporate buyers, around this time next year.

Like all rumours it's premature, and people can change their minds. But it's not speculation. The prototypes actually exist and they (nearly) work.

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planneau · #2 07-02-2008 -

They need to do a better job than that; all it looks like a ipod with a keyboard......how dumb can they be

**BenMarvin** · #3 07-02-2008 -

That's a horrible mockup.
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HeavyComponent · #4 07-02-2008 -

That's the uglies thing I ever seen.

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dallas1125 · #5 07-02-2008 -

!?, who would want that over a blackberry? I could understand (just barely understand) wanting the 3g iphone over the blackberrys, until we get the bold.

anoxia187 · #6 07-02-2008 -

yeah i do not like the iphone. Can not wait until i get the Bold.

**kieranwest** · #7 07-02-2008 -

Hehehe yes my bolds look a LOT better than that!~via BB (wap.pinstack.com)~

drdoom23 · #8 07-02-2008 -

~via BB (wap.pinstack.com)~thats nasty looking my god I wouldn't be caught dead with that thing its hurting my eyes just looking at it ewww

**HeyMrRadio** · #9 07-02-2008 -

Please tell me you guys are joking about your thoughts on that mockup

**cherrichiodo** · #10 07-02-2008 -

i think the mockup looks cool

but i don't think i could type anything on those tiny keys

kingrykku27 · #11 07-02-2008 -

thats a horrible photoshoop.

putting it into perspective, and judging by the size of the earphones, i'd say thats a lot bigger than my pearl.

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