Thread: Routon P760/P730
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2009-04-30 , 14:56
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Originally Posted by krisse View Post
That is an awful, awful design,
You should specify, since your criticisms only apply two ONE of the TWO models.

How do you feel about the one that DOESN'T have the number pad?

The whole point of keypads on mobile devices is to let you enter text or numbers with one hand, but that has been completely ignored by this design.

And because it's numerical it won't help with software that requires QWERTY.
a) I could easily use that number pad with just my right hand on the device.

b) if it has T9 type input, then it would work just fine for MOST text input. No QWERTY required.

It's got a touchscreen, why didn't they just use a virtual keypad and keyboard? That would have let them extend the screen or shrink the device...
Because virtual keyboards suck ***.


All of that said... I don't like the P760 either. I think it can work, but I wouldn't choose it over other designs (not even over it's own cousin, the P730). But I do like that they have a Dpad. I could see the P730 maybe being viable.
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