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    Re: PDA to make a return?

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    I definitely miss the keyboards from my old rebranded HTC devices running Windows mobile.
    I'm sure the emulators on that device ran better than they do now on android.
    I got a pristine condition Orange M5000 and a Qtek9100... At least one of them has the 'Windows Mobile 6' sort of funky custom ROM from XDA. Should probably put it on eBay one of these days...!

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    Re: PDA to make a return?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    Define "normal". If you mean an on-screen touch keyboard, I'm not surprised - I hate them too. Far too easy to mistype, bad feedback/response ... the swipe typing on the Windows 10 Phone keyboard wasn't bad, but it was far from perfect ... so I now have a Blackberry keyONE. It has a lovely physical qwerty keyboard that is a delight to type on, and runs a fairly vanilla Android with some nice Blackberry apps on top.

    Have to agree that the 'choice' in phones is awful now - it's basically an iPhone, one of ~40 identikit Android touch slabs, or my keyONE. Anything new & interesting would be a delight.
    After you mentioning the keyONE, and me having continuing issues with my Oneplus One, I'm really seriously considering it as a replacement... I rarely do anything other than social media, texting and calls on my phone these days so as a media device, im not too bothered about it having the strange aspect ratio.

    Overall, would you give it a stamp of £370 approval?

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    Re: PDA to make a return?

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    ... Overall, would you give it a stamp of £370 approval?
    I went from an £11/month contract to a new 24-month contract at £27/month just to get the handset, so that'll be ~ £384. I haven't regretted it for a second. I'm a fairly to very light mobile user, and sometimes I can get 3 - 4 days between charges. I think I've managed to drain it in a day once, but I was watching live streaming video from the BBC for several hours on that day! It's smooth, responsive, the Blackberry customisations actually add to the Android experience, and I haven't been able to throw anything at it so far that it can't cope with. Plus the keyboard is gorgeous to work on. It also uses the keyboard as a touchpad, and while I don't use that very often (and very occasionally delete a word by accident because I tend to let my fingers drift over the surface of the keyboard as I'm typing) when I do use its features it's genuinely helpful.

    Erm, yeah, I might quite like this phone

    I'm not going to lie - if they did a cheaper version I'd've gone for that (I loved my Q5 - if BB10 had developer. support I'd still be using it, and failing that an Android Q5 would've been my ideal device). I suspect this thing has a lot of features I'll never even know about, let alone use. It's the most I've ever spent on a phone by a long way.

    Still worth it. SO worth it

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    Re: PDA to make a return?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    I went from an £11/month contract to a new 24-month contract at £27/month just to get the handset, so that'll be ~ £384. I haven't regretted it for a second. I'm a fairly to very light mobile user, and sometimes I can get 3 - 4 days between charges. I think I've managed to drain it in a day once, but I was watching live streaming video from the BBC for several hours on that day! It's smooth, responsive, the Blackberry customisations actually add to the Android experience, and I haven't been able to throw anything at it so far that it can't cope with. Plus the keyboard is gorgeous to work on. It also uses the keyboard as a touchpad, and while I don't use that very often (and very occasionally delete a word by accident because I tend to let my fingers drift over the surface of the keyboard as I'm typing) when I do use its features it's genuinely helpful.

    Erm, yeah, I might quite like this phone

    I'm not going to lie - if they did a cheaper version I'd've gone for that (I loved my Q5 - if BB10 had developer. support I'd still be using it, and failing that an Android Q5 would've been my ideal device). I suspect this thing has a lot of features I'll never even know about, let alone use. It's the most I've ever spent on a phone by a long way.

    Still worth it. SO worth it
    Reckon Ill have to try and keep and eye out, see if I can get a good deal on one then

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