BlackBerry's rather oddly shaped new smartphone
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Blackberry went totally "hit or miss" with this one (I suspect the latter). Looking at it, personally, I feel disappointed that they sacrificed a full quality keyboard to use a bigger screen. From the main article image it is clearly seen that some of the physical controls (the caps button, punctuation symbols) are now actually not physical anymore. I don't really quite see the point in this since you'll still have them mostly anywhere (for what blackberry is used - various messaging) so why not make them physical? Blackberry is pretty used to making widthy (width > height) smartphones so why have they gone full 1:1 is strange to me.
Hopefully, a decent qwerty smartphone comes out some time until my Blackberry totally dies on me.
It certainly isn't going to fit in my jeans front pocket as nicely as my pocket proportioned Nexus 4.