Samsung i7500: New Android Phone With No Keyboard (Argh!)

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Samsung i7500: New Android Phone With No Keyboard (Argh!)

By Todd Ogasawara on Apr 28, 2009 04:15 AM

Image courtesy of Hungarian UNIX Portal

I like my iPhone 3G a lot. But, it would be a lot more useful to me if it had a physical QWERTY thumb keyboard. So, I was glad to see the first Google Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, had one (despite its other issues). But, the anti-keyboard virus infected other platforms because of the iPhone's success. The latest victim in the...

Samsung i7500

The phone has great specs: 3G wireless, 320x480 resolution display, 5 megapixel camera (with an LED flash?), Google browser and app goodness, and 8GB of internal memory! But alas, it does not have a physical QWERTY keyboard.

Now that a bunch of keyboard-less iPhone-wannabe touch screen smartphones have appears, I'm certain Apple will stun them all this summer during the WWDC and announce a new iPhone or netbook-category-killer device with a physical QWERTY keyboard.

Via Engadget

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