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Leak: Is the Nokia C2 going to bring back split QWERTY?

Categories: Nokia, Rumors
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 2:00 AM

Split QWERTY keyboards have a love it or hate it design, and I’m firmly entrenched in the latter camp. It took me nearly 2 decades to learn where all the keys are on a QWERTY keyboard, but I’ll admit that I’m still guilty of looking down every once in a while. With a split QWERTY you not only have to remember how a proper keyboard should look, but on which side of the screen a particular letter sits.

This is merely a concept slide, so it’s far from being a device. Think Nokia will bring something like this out to market, or it’s just a few guys sitting in Finland, probably the only 4 people to buy the Nokia 6820, and fantasizing about a reality that will never be?

[Via: My Nokia Blog]

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • ido

    i loved the design of the 6820! The only reason i didnt get back in the day was because i was and am married to big red.

    that phone was so futuristic, design wise. it was pocketable AND had a full qwerty keyboard over 6 years ago. There are still phones today that cant do that.

    That being said, the concept pictured above doesnt look too hot.

  • Jake

    The doubt in this article is by one who hasn’t really learned how to type yet. The split is not wide enough to be perceptible by most pairs of hands.

  • Joe

    I think this is an intresting design, but i was one of those 4 people who owned a 6800, and a 6820. Im not going to lie, the 6820 was and probably is still one of the best phones i have EVER owned, and i have owned alot of phones.. I have had very low end phone all the way up to high end phones like the iphone 3gs, and this phone has proved to still be the best phone. It was a GREAT design, very pocketable worked great, and INDESTRUCTIBLE! I put that phone through so much and it always prevailed. I wish they would come out with a updated version of that phone.