Citing a study by Strategy Analytics, Electronista is reporting that a good number of Pre owners are complaining about the complete lack of an onscreen keyboard. While many of the respondents who purchased a Pre did so precisely because of its pull-out QWERTY keyboard, the study notes,
Although users liked having a physical QWERTY keyboard, they did not want to have to slide it out every time they wanted to type something
Any Pre users care to chime in?
July 11th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I own a Pre as well as an iPhone 3Gs. It would be nice to have a virtual keyboard, but the real one works fine. I find I am more accurate with the Pre’s keyboard than the virtual one on the iPhone. The virtual keyboard would be nice for landscape mode apps.