My first Android phone, a used Samsung Stratosphere, had a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. I remember touch screens being terrible in the halcyon days of early smartphones and having one with a physical keyboard, or at least a 0-9 keypad, was a perk for a time.
When my Stratosphere finally broke in like 2013 or 2014 I was bummed out because there weren't any new phones like it with physical keyboards. But by that time touch screens had gotten better, so a physical keyboard wasn't really needed anymore.
My first Android phone, a used Samsung Stratosphere, had a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. I remember touch screens being terrible in the halcyon days of early smartphones and having one with a physical keyboard, or at least a 0-9 keypad, was a perk for a time.
When my Stratosphere finally broke in like 2013 or 2014 I was bummed out because there weren't any new phones like it with physical keyboards. But by that time touch screens had gotten better, so a physical keyboard wasn't really needed anymore.