Rumors are going around that Apple has developed and manufactured an iPhone (3G presumably) with a full slide out QWERTY keyboard like those found on other smart phones. No actual photos have surfaced (yet), nor specs of how the actual phone looks or how the slide mechanism works (again - yet), but knowing Apple, it’s design and function is sleek, intuitive and dead sexy.
I have speculated about the idea and suspected Apple introducing a QWERTY style iPhone for numerous reasons. Among them more screen real estate will be made available for writing/viewing documents/websites/emails with the keyboard moved to a separate physical location and also to satisfy a part of the (business) market that wants a full QWERTY they can touch with their fat money making thumbs.
According to Guy Kewney, (NewsWireless.Net) the testers are among some of the Carriers that currently carry the iPhone (and soon iPhone 3G), and are only in the hands of the big boys who can be trusted to keep things very quiet - and that of course means no leaked photos.
“Rumours from inside Cupertino suggest that Jobs himself doesn’t have this sort of religious hangup about his own work. Reports from inside mobile operators show that whether or not he ever makes it work, he is already trying to make a “slide-out” keyboard for a corporate version of the iPhone.
If this version does appear on the market, it won’t be this year, and certainly won’t be aimed at the consumer market. Consumers love the sleek, elegant design of the iPhone, and quickly fall in love with the on-screen keyboard.
But Steve Jobs can do the sums. In America, iPhone has perhaps overtaken Blackberry in total sales - but these sales are in what they call “the executive corridor.”
Well I have done a quick design of what I think we could be looking at, of course Apple will engineer and layout the Keyboard better than I have. But this gives you a nice idea of what it may look like. I personally would love Apple to make this, not that I need it, but I think the variety will help establish Apple in the market and give consumers the choice of virtual the virtual Multi Touch keyboard vs Apples take on the traditional QWERTY.
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July 14th, 2008 at 12:30 am
i have a version one phone, we are in the process of writing a iphone interface for our accounting system. the massive stumbling block is the touch keyboard and how it takes up HEAPS of screen realestate. this is the EXACT device that we need in our business environment.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Thanks, let us know how you make out with the development of your application.
September 13th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
omg that would be soooooo cool if it had a keyboard ive been waiting for apple to do this. i would so buy this!!