Phones with keyboards
Last Thursday I attended the 3 mobile quiz. This isn’t like your average pub quiz because mobile phones are allowed and their use encouraged. The aim of the game is to Google for answers faster than anyone else, or just know enough to be able to put together a search term.
I took a Windows Mobile 6 handset along to the event instead of the INQ1 because I thought a device with a keyboard would be of more use in a quiz-type situation. And I was right.
Gordon Kelly joked that I must have picked up the Windows mobile handset from a museum, or even excavated it from a chunk of ancient rock. Sadly that’s true, it is an old handset, but it still works fine on 3G.
I don’t like the trade off I am forced to face. The INQ1 software is fantastic - it’s fast, light, simple to use, and the integrated nature of the applications is superb. I’m still waiting to see another handset that has a converged contact list.
One INQ1 battery is equal to three Windows Mobile 6 handset batteries!
But INQ1 doesn’t have a full keyboard. I am on my emails and Skype text chat all day, every day. A full keyboard would be really helpful and much quicker to use.
If the INQ software can be put on a device similar in style to a Blackberry or Nokia E71… in fact, who cares - ANYTHING with a full keyboard - I’d be the happiest man alive.
