The last influential person in the wireless (service provider side) industry that demanded keyboards on phones left Sprint a year or two ago. I suspect that Blackberry will be the last manufacturer to make phones with keyboards, so once they finish circling the drain, that'll probably be the end of keyboards on phones.Originally Posted by TJs11thPre
The problem i see is this:
LG is already making money on phones. How much MORE money could they possibly make if the phones were based on webOS vs android? Offset that potential profit with the expense of developing and marketing a new product that essentially, only WE care about.
It will be a long time, and if anything did come out it would not be what we know today.
Blame me. But unless someone buys the Palm brand with the sole intent of rereleasing a portrait slider with keyboard, we are stuck with veer, pre3, or frankenpre2 as our only options. Sorry to be so cynical, but I'm used to not getting what i want. As long as i love webOS, there won't be another one like this.
User demand for keyboards is pretty much limited to only former Palm and Blackberry users, and the occasional person who came from a dumb-phone with a qwerty keyboard. Anyone would probably be crazy to manufacture a keyboard-phone unless it can largely share manufacturing capacity with a non-keyboard phone somehow.
