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Originally Posted by cmpugh
I remember reading a post from a tester of the 8800/8900, and he seemed to think that it was easier to use than the 8700... I don't think the spacing is the issue... the shape is what matters.
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Key spacing
and contact surface design matter. The OP has a valid point, as the dim specs for the 8800 are as close to the Treo's as RIM has ever gotten. The Treo's keyboard, in both key spacing and contact surface design terms, is unusable for anything beyond short messages, unless you have small-ish hands/fingers.
The design of the Pearl's keypad is irrelevant to this discussion because it is SureType, which maintains a traditional cellphone keypad layout, and will always be
'easy access'. If you can dial a phone number on a cellphone, you can use a Pearl (if you can tolerate the SureType method).
One thing can be certain, the sales of 3rd-party spell checkers will skyrocket with the 8800's introduction.
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