Look back at the phones possessing a very special keyboard

BlackBerry is an extremely popular phone brand and is popular with many users because of its durability and keyboard quality. In the development history of the phone, not only the name of BlackBerry, but also many famous brands also have very unique keyboard designs. Here is a summary of the devices with a unique unique keyboard design synthesized by GSMArena site.

The phone not only stops listening to calls, but it also has a messaging feature, to text messages to require manufacturers to invent built-in keyboards for users to enter text. When the new keyboard appears, the characters appear on the keys alphabetically (a, b, c), but because a key contains many letters, you need to type many times to get the text you want. After that, the T9 keyboard and other predictive typing technologies make things easier.

The phone at that time was quite small, so it was difficult for users to manipulate both fingers at the same time. To overcome this problem, in 2003 Siemens SX1 and Nokia 7600 launched the product line with a keyboard designed on both sides of the body so that users can conveniently enter text.

Siemens SX1

Nokia 7600

In 2001, Nokia unveiled the Nokia 5510, which turned out to be more texting than calling, because the manufacturer had integrated a QWERTY keyboard, but it was split on both sides of the screen and tied the phone. rotate in an irregular horizontal direction. Coming later models like the Nokia 6810 also use the same arrangement.

Nokia 5510

Nokia 6810

Different from the keyboards in the above phones, the Sony Ericsson P910 is placed by the manufacturer behind the device, when using the user must flip the keyboard to the back of the camera body to type.

Sony Ericsson P910

Not only that, Sony also developed many interesting ideas about the keyboard on its predecessor phones like M600, the keyboard of this phone is given 2 letters on 1 key - left click for One letter and right click for the other letter. The Nokia E55 is similar to the Nokia E55.

Sony Ericsson M600

Nokia E55

Followed by a trio of products with extremely interesting keyboard layouts, inspired by old-fashioned landline phones, manufacturers have put them on their products like Nokia 3650, Toshiba G450 and Samsung Serene.

Nokia 3650

Toshiba G450

Samsung Serene

Continue with Motorola ROKR E8. This is a phone that has a touch-sensitive keyboard and a backlight that changes (the digits disappear, the function of the alternative vehicle).

Motorola ROKR E8

Nokia 2300 or 3200 is equipped with a group keyboard, it looks very strange, isn't it?

Nokia 2300 (right) and Nokia 3200

With the Nokia 3108 the manufacturer has developed the product line and put the Stylus into the product so that users can type in more languages. The Stylus is a smart solution before the touch screen appears. To be able to use the pen, you need to flip the keyboard to the bottom edge in the same way as the Sony Ericsson P910.

Nokia 3108

Since the touch screen appears, the hard keyboard on the phone is gradually obsolete. This led to the collapse of the BlackBerry phone company, although the manufacturer tried to upgrade its product.

And when you catch up with the modern trend of touch screens, the BlackBerry phones are not as successful as they expected. A good example is the BlackBerry Storm 9500, which, despite its built-in touch, doesn't offer the editing experience on the virtual keyboard as well as expected.

BlackBerry Storm 9500

Above are the unique phone keyboards "self-styled needle", whether the people of the 8x generation still recognize?

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