Orange UK dumbing down HTC Touch Dual – numeric-only keypad variant of HTC Touch Dual
By Will Park on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 12:41 PM PST In Announcements, Devices, HTC, Orange, Windows Mobile
Apparently, our Brit-friends over yonder aren’t too fond of the SureType-esque, 20-key, half-QWERTY keypad on the HTC Touch Dual. MoDaCo is reporting that Orange UK will be launching a 16-key variant of the HTC Touch Dual with a numeric-only keypad.
Orange UK wants to slide in the HTC Touch Dual beneath the full-QWERTY smartphones in their lineup. What exactly is Orange UK targeting with the HTC Touch Dual? We’re not sure. It’s something of a half-breed smartphone that doesn’t really have a clear competitor, but with a numeric-keypad it might just be aiming at the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N81 that Orange refuses to sell.
20-key or 16-key? SureType semi-QWERTY or numeric keypad? Which do you prefer?
[Via: MoDaCo]
personally, i’d prefer a numeric more thana half-qwerty. if it were a full querty, totally different story.