Why no high quality QWERTY phones?

[MiiHere]

The one good thing about the keyboard, I had a blackberry, is that I could text without looking down because, like on a computer, I knew where all the keys were by feel.

[Khines5705]

Exactly! Nothing like that tactile sense and the satisfying yet subtle click of the buttons under your fingers/thumbs. Switching to touchscreen increased my typos considerably! And trying the SWYPE feature was a huge disappointment for me. Might have worked better if I were drunk maybe!

[MiiHere]

It was MUCH easier to secretly text using a keyboard, no doubt. Swype...ugh. I tried it for awhile, but just couldn't do it.

[sprmankalel · Accepted solution]

Physical keyboards equal more money to build, more moving parts that can wear out and break and more problems in general.

Here's what. It isn't that VZW isn't offering good quality QWERTY devices. It's the manufacturers not producing them. They never sold well and the manufacturers were losing money. You know 6 people that would want it. Would you and those 6 people be buying a device every year when they're released? At any given time I can go to a party with at minimum 75 people. Not one has a QWERTY device. I am not saying that you're wrong but the market is not there so device manufacturers are not spending the money to make them and support them when the keyboards malfunction.

[Genserik]

Do you have the extended warranty?

[Khines5705]

I have a Droid 4 just sitting around collecting dust because my son always felt a need to upgrade to the latest and greatest thing on the market. I'm pretty sure it still works just fine, and he had it on the Verizon network. I would give it to you free if I could. Look into how much it would cost for me to ship it to you from Indianapolis. Keep in mind that I'm on a fixed income and can't afford pricey options.

[Khines5705]