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Re:E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life by zokier on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @01:59AM (#4686835)
> Simple T9 keypad.

Just doesn't make much sense. Most input you are going to do is textual, ie. names and sms messages. Thus keypad optimized for that purpose would be more reasonable. Full QWERTY is probably impractical due desired small form factor, but there could be some good compromised solution. Maybe something like in E55?

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/images/news/E55/nokia-e55-and...

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Re:E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life by konstruktor on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @05:31AM (#4687255)
If it's very thin (which it could be due to little battery drain and low-tech), the standard Blackberry format could be rather nice.
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