Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

I honestly don't like the above idea of a 5-row keyboard. You're typing on that thing with your thumbs - that takes a LOT of thumb traversing to cover.

(And on a Win 7 phone, all those extra buttons have so much remappable space wasted, since I doubt that phone would let power users remap the keyboard. Which means all those extra buttons that could've had an extra character are just idly wasting that potential, because some people got into their heads that the standard qwerty layout is the only right way to do a keyboard, even when qwerty was made for typewriters for the entire hand and this is a phone the keyboard of which is likely to be used with just thumbs.)

Originally Posted by BigBadGuber!

That is why we need a personalized phone store, where you can build your own phone, just like you can build your own sneakers

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

I honestly don't like the above idea of a 5-row keyboard. You're typing on that thing with your thumbs - that takes a LOT of thumb traversing to cover.

(And on a Win 7 phone, all those extra buttons have so much remappable space wasted, since I doubt that phone would let power users remap the keyboard. Which means all those extra buttons that could've had an extra character are just idly wasting that potential, because some people got into their heads that the standard qwerty layout is the only right way to do a keyboard, even when qwerty was made for typewriters for the entire hand and this is a phone the keyboard of which is likely to be used with just thumbs.)

Originally Posted by marxian

Windoze Phone only needs three keys.