LOL. No capitalization whatsoever. Did you post this from your touchscreen phone where the shift key is a PITA?

The Enact is not a world phone like Droid 4 was. If you need a slider because you send business emails, there's a decent chance you will find yourself in foreign countries.

Phones can be configured such that the email looks normal.

Again, assuming you have a job that requires you to occasionally email customers while on the go..... You already have a smartphone. Why not use it with a physical keyboard instead of carrying around a laptop?

>A couple of paragraphs is a "significant amount[s] of typing" for you?

Yes, it is enough typing that I would want a physical keyboard. It's not just one email either.

Those websites are way out of date. The Droid 4 is no longer available on Verizon and that is just one example.

Many of those kind of websites update the "change date" to attract google page rank, even when the content has not changed in years.

I put into that website "Verizon", "Available in US", "Slider" and "World Roaming".

Nada.

These were the capabilities of the Droid 4.

Buy a new in box Droid 4 on eBay asap. I figure you have another year before they are hard to find.

Never had a problem with the keyboards with any of the droid sliders I have owned (currently have a Droid 4).

A big issue, which you dismiss, is that you lose half of the screen real estate to the keyboard, which can be a big pain.

Finally, the pain of entering non-standard text (or even capitalization) seems to have led to very poorly written posts on various message boards (no capitalization, or lack of symbols used)

As an owner of each one of the Droid sliders, I will say that the only parts that went bad were the on off buttons and the batteries.

Never had a single problem with the keyboards. Awesome devices. (Still on a Droid 4 and about to buy a backup from eBay)

>Honestly if you're using the phone for significant amounts of typing anyway you're doing it wrong.

Care to explain in more detail why you think that? Only a phone has the form factor to fit in my pants pocket. Sometimes when I only have my phone with me, I need to compose a several paragraph email for work.

It's not that there is "no market", it is that the "power user" slice of the pie (people who compose a lot of emails) has a tiny percentage now that smartphones are in every single household.

One of the sad consequences of technology going mainstream. The power users can be ignored.

We slide out keyboard users are a desperate bunch. Do some googling.. there's even a petition begging verizon to sell one after the demise of the Droid series.

But the reality is likely that only a small subset of professionals need to write long emails with their phones. The vast majority of cell phone users send simple text messages and not much else.

It's the sad consequence of technology going extremely mainstream - we power users are but a drop in the bucket $$ wise.

Wifi hotspots are not really needed anymore. Most everyone has (nearly) unlimited cell data.

All of those are a pleasure to read.

I knew some people would call out the Economist, and I used to subscribe to it some years back - but unfortunately they dumbed it down quite a bit several years ago in a push to increase their subscription base... and it looks like they succeeded.

I remember being blown away by this game... basically a Donkey Kong style game but on the original IBM PC hardware. I read the review in PC Magazine and asked for it for my 14th birthday... I couldn't believe that things like swinging and jumping from swinging ropes while 4 other AI sprites chased me around was even possible on that original PC.

He even showed off a little by full screen scrolling in between levels.

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