All -you -can -choose a smartphone with a keyboard

Sentence ● Yasuhiro Yamane Edit ● Giant Suzuki

Japanese mobile phones are also full of smartphones, and the new product presentations of each company have been announced not only for Japanese manufacturers but also for overseas manufacturers.However, the products of each company are differentiated by design and function, but I am a little unsatisfactory.

It may be only some users, but one of the functions you want for your smartphone is a full keyboard.If you get used to flick input, you can hit letters comfortably, but if it is a long sentence with English and numbers, you still want a keyboard.However, in Japan, smartphones with Qwerty keys = full keyboard are rarely seen.But overseas, each manufacturer has a lot of full keyboard smartphones.

When we interviewed an American exhibition in May this year, terminals equipped with full keyboards from feature phones to smartphones were exhibited here and there, and were sold in the city.The United States is still a typewriter or keyboard culture country.Even if the iPhone is the most popular, the full keyboard terminal is still alive.By the way, here is the article at that time.

In the United States, it was a treasure trove of QwERTY key terminals.

In the May article, I was just paying attention to the products of minor manufacturers, but in fact, the United States has a full keyboard smartphone with all major manufacturers.For example, it is Kyocera's smartphone why it is strange why it is not sold in Japan.Although it is a mid -range class, there are two models equipped with a QWERTY keyboard.This "MILANO C5121" is a CDMA version, but wouldn't it be cheap around E-Mobile or Nippon Newsletter with W-CDMA?

Samsung is supplying smartphones to all careers, from major American carriers to regional carriers, and MVNO operators, and the number of catalogs is over 50.If you have it, there are many keyboard -mounted terminals, and the lineup will be made up of 10 or more models, including slide and vertical models.Among them, "Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G" is the latest model with a 4 -inch display just released in September.In addition, "Samsung Double Time" is a dual specification where the display appears whether it is closed or opened.This gimmick is interesting.

Speaking of which, Motorola has recently lost its share in Asia and Europe, but in the United States has not yet declined and has sold a wide variety of smartphones.This "Motorola Admiral" features an elegant finish targeted by business people.It feels somewhat BlackBerry, but the metallic texture is a cool impression.I feel that this is likely to be received by a certain user even if it is put in Japan.

By the way, in the United States, terminals are not only manufacturer brand products, but some are sold by carrier brands.T-mobile has the name of "My Touch" on its own brand smartphone, but the slide keyboard style product is "My Touch Q".This style was the second generation, and the first generation was made of HTC, but this is made of LG Electronics.I'm glad that the price is cheaper than the manufacturer because it is a carrier brand product.

A little while ago, it was also called the synonym for entry smartphones, but in Japan, high -end models have been emerged as a mechanism.The company's smartphone is developing globally with a new brand called ASCEND, but the ASCNEND has a built -in ASCNEND Q in the ASCNEND in the United States.The display is 3.Despite the 2 inches, the 122 x 58 x 13 mm square body is somewhat stylish.I feel like I can feel the coolness of Huawei.

Japanese characters input in the touch panel may have a frick method, but people who want to enter both hands as well as one -handed input want a full keyboard.However, it seems impossible for such a terminal to come out in Japan, so it seems that it will be purchased again locally when traveling abroad or interviews.If you go to the full keyboard, if you go to the United States, you will feel like a qwerty on both right and left!

Yasuhiro Yamane's official site Hong Kong Mobile Information Bureau

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