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Re:Walt Mossberg - Google’s G1: First Impressions by lemonysnicket on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @06:33PM (#312926)
"the iPhone with a keyboard."

that's all you have to tell ordinary consumers (read: high school teenage girls and college-aged folks who absolutely OBLITERATE text messaging services and would never buy a mobile phone without a keyboard).

as a phone, iPhone rates very poorly for two things: calls (poor reception, horrible battery life, etc.) and sms.

G1 fixes one and possibly the other.

i have an iPhone, FWIW

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Re:Walt Mossberg - Google’s G1: First Impressions by whatusername on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @08:10PM (#312991)
I can text reasonably well.. (aka - by sight while driving using T9). I don't know ANYONE who texts regularly with a QWERTY keyboard on their phone. Maybe it's just an australian thing? Certainly none of my teenage female cousins have one - nor people I catch a train with...
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Re:Walt Mossberg - Google’s G1: First Impressions by niels_olson on Thursday September 25, 2008 @08:32PM (#315625)
> I don't know ANYONE who texts regularly with a QWERTY keyboard on their phone."

You must not know many young docs doing their residencies.

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