Which carrier would get this phone?

[OmegaWolf747]

Galaxy Nexus Successor to Feature QWERTY Keyboard

I hope Verizon Wireless, though based on the design, it might go to T-Mo.

[Synaptic Wave]

You must be kidding. No one adds hardware keyboards nowadays as phones become too bulky.

[OmegaWolf747]

I'm glad they're doing it. I hate whole thin is in trend.

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[CeluGeek]

I'd love to have a Nexus phone with a keyboard, because that's the only way I'm buying a Nexus phone. That said, I do hope that it doesn't go to Verizon -- they'll ruin it with their bloatware an bureaucratic software testing *cough*Android 4.0.4*cough*. If Google wants to make one for Spint, that's cool as long as they also make a pentaband GSM/HSPA version.

[Synaptic Wave]

Maybe I'm not that much into chatting or what you may need that keyboard for. Swype's just fine for me.

[OmegaWolf747]

That's fine for you, but I think those of us who want a keyboard phone should be able to get a good one.

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[cellphonejunky]

Galaxy Nexus Successor to Feature QWERTY Keyboard

I hope Verizon Wireless, though based on the design, it might go to T-Mo.

Physical key boards are soooo 1990!

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[OmegaWolf747]

1990? I never saw one before 2007.

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[Synaptic Wave]

Yeah, totally. But I just don't think Samsung, HTC, Sony and others are going to provide you with one Everyone's boasting about 'The thinnest smartphone out in the market'. No one's trying to make diverse products. They just change megapixels, inches and gigabytes to pretend they've got a perfect phone for everyone.
Hope I'm wrong after all.

[OmegaWolf747]

It does seem that way at times. It would be great if a manufacturer would break the mold and make a functional as opposed to sexy phone.

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[CeluGeek]

Top 5 reasons to have a good physical QWERTY keyboard:

5. More screen real estate for your work. Touchscreen keyboards always rob you of precious screen space.

4. Consistency. I can't stand how keys keep moving around in onscreen keyboards depending on what field you are going to type, forcing you to keep looking at the onscreen keyboard to type something because that @ sign won't always be in the same place. GRRRR!

3. Write in many languages and mix-n-match them as needed, without having to switch languages from an onscreen menu... ¡Me gusta! Hold down on any key in the QWERTY keyboard to select extended characters as needed. Poor souls who have to keep changing language settings for onscreen keyboards but... C'est la vie.

2. Write anything you want on the spot and keep moving. With a QWERTY keyboard you don't need to worry of whether a word you are typing is in the keyboard's dictionary or not *cough*Swype*cough*. Having to add words to a custom dictionary takes your focus away from your main writing task.

1. Focus on what you are writing, not where you are writing it in. With a good physical keyboard you can feel where a key ends and the next one begins. After a few days of use, you learn to navigate the keyboard by feel. Do you look at your computer's keyboard while typing? I don't and I don't see why my phone has to be any different. A touchscreen keyboard will ALWAYS force you to look at the keyboard while writing -- it doesn't matter if you are pecking, swyping or whatnot.

[OmegaWolf747]

Hear hear Celugeek! We're part of a dying breed, I fear.

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[supermanx5]

While some users love physical QWERTYs, most don't care and prefer not to have one (especially because slide outs make the phone thicker). That's why we're seeing less and less QWERTYs out there compared to when Android first launched.

Manufacturers are just responding to what most people want. HTC even said that they are "moving away" from QWERTYs in general. So I highly doubt the next Nexus will feature a QWERTY. Unless of course they make two versions, one with and one without the keyboard...