LTE Keyboard phone to replace Epic

[rprochnow]

I'm eligible to get an upgrade from my Epic 4G in July 1. Sprint should be rolling out LTE in my area before then - and I'd like to get an LTE phone.

Today, Galaxy Nexus is available - with the EVO 4G LTE available shortly. And it's not clear when the Galaxy S3 will be available on Sprint.

But none of these phones have a keyboard.

Not sure if I should get the Nexus or EVO, wait for the S3, or keep on waiting to see if there will be a Sprint LTE phone with a keyboard...

Suggestions???

[EyeB]

with how thin the phones are now, I really haven't had much problems just buying a phone case with a keyboard on it

these are for iphone, but you can find one for other sizes with enough looking
Amazon.com: Buletooth Wireless Rubberized Hard Shell Slider QWERTY Keyboard Case for iPhone 4: Cell Phones & Accessories

Amazon.com: Dobi Design Apple iPhone 4 Bluetooth Keyboard Case with Stand: Computers & Accessories

edit: forgot to mention but should be obvious... phones that are curved on the back have a hard time with these cases...

[christophocles]

Originally Posted by EyeB

with how thin the phones are now, I really haven't had much problems just buying a phone case with a keyboard on it

these are for iphone, but you can find one for other sizes with enough looking
Amazon.com: Buletooth Wireless Rubberized Hard Shell Slider QWERTY Keyboard Case for iPhone 4: Cell Phones & Accessories

Amazon.com: Dobi Design Apple iPhone 4 Bluetooth Keyboard Case with Stand: Computers & Accessories

edit: forgot to mention but should be obvious... phones that are curved on the back have a hard time with these cases...

This looks like the way to go, unfortunately.. Phone manufacturers have their head up their rear end and will not make a device that will satisfy us, unfortunately.. And there's always a vocal group of people who will B*TCH incessantly about the fact that their carrier got the version of xyz phone with a hw kb and their girly wrists are too weak to handle the few extra grams of the pro model. I think Sprint and Samsung were both soured by this experience with the Epic.

My Epic died recently so I switched back to my TP2 until the replacement Epic comes in. I really really miss using this phone. The guts inside are abysmally slow by today's standards, but the outer shell is second-to-none. It's the last serious, professional top-of-the-line phone produced by HTC in their heyday, as far as I'm concerned. The Epic was a cheap wannabe replacement that was a little faster and could run Android, but fell short in other areas. HTC was the market leader in qwerty sliders for many years, but I have precisely zero interest in any phone HTC has produced since the TP2 (except perhaps the mytouch 3g slide which is tmobile only and has an inferior 4-row keyboard). If I wanted a slab-phone, I would certainly choose Samsung over HTC simply because Samsung's screens are so much better.

We may never have any modern phone produced by any company that can match the TP2 shell design. Not because of any technical limitation, but because of mass-market appeal and internal company politics and other BS. HTC is out of the slider business, and no one else seems to want to pick up the slack. It's a shame, but I will most likely end up with a GS3 and a bastardized bluetooth kb attachment in the near future.

[revaaron]

Originally Posted by christophocles

It's a shame, but I will most likely end up with a GS3 and a bastardized bluetooth kb attachment in the near future.

ditto. unfortunately. I'm also thinking about leaving sprint since the last 13 years, they were great until the last 2-3 years where I don't get my calls or SMS a lot of the time. Though I doubt I will since I use up to 7GB per month.

[WanderingMinstrel]

Originally Posted by revaaron

ditto. unfortunately.

+1 on this. Especially the unfortunately part.
Seems like the only current option to staying somewhere near the leading edge for another two year contract period (starting November).

I LOVE my Epic and would keep it longer. My only complaint is the comparative lack of ram and rom memory. Lately I've been getting notifications about deleting programs from my internal storage to permit more memory availability -- and I don't have that many apps installed. Everything else continues to be aces.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by WanderingMinstrel

+1 on this. Especially the unfortunately part.
Seems like the only current option to staying somewhere near the leading edge for another two year contract period (starting November).

I LOVE my Epic and would keep it longer. My only complaint is the comparative lack of ram and rom memory. Lately I've been getting notifications about deleting programs from my internal storage to permit more memory availability -- and I don't have that many apps installed. Everything else continues to be aces.

Why not get a 32gb microsd card for 15$ and then reformat part of it as EXT2/4 then you can install programs to it directly. Though I personally wouldn't mind a phone with 2gb ram, 32gb+ rom and SDXC support....

[gTen]

Samsung promised it will hit the US early summer, but as for KB phones for sprint..no news yet

[WorldWide]

Well, the Epic goes EOL in July so maybe there's hope that a successor is gonna be announced soon.

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[gTen]

Speak of the devil!! lol..an LG keyboard phone

LG's LS860 Cayenne gets a visit from the unsteady hand of Mr. Blurrycam -- Engadget

And it looks like a nice 5 row keyboard too! would have preferred a quad core but 1.2ghz dual core is better then 1ghz single core :/

[orangekid]

Originally Posted by gTen

Speak of the devil!! lol..an LG keyboard phone

LG's LS860 Cayenne gets a visit from the unsteady hand of Mr. Blurrycam -- Engadget

And it looks like a nice 5 row keyboard too! would have preferred a quad core but 1.2ghz dual core is better then 1ghz single core :/

The Sprint SGS3 is a dual-core phone...