The Z10 may not signal the end of the physical keyboard on smartphones, he said.
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Heins says, ""we know there is a lot of physical keyboard lovers out there.
The Q10 will have a physical keyboard, while the Z10 has only a touch-screen keyboard.
If you're wedded to a physical keyboard, then you should probably wait for the BlackBerry Q10.
He didn't say when the Q10, with the physical keyboard, will be out or for how much.
The Q10 has a physical keyboard, a feature that has kept BlackBerry users loyal over the years.
While there's no physical keyboard to search a word, an on-screen keyboard pops up when you select search.
BlackBerry fans wanting a physical keyboard will have to wait at least a month for the BlackBerry Q10.
The lack of a physical keyboard leaves more room for a bigger screen.
This is the app I show to all of my touchscreen keyboard-hesitant friends nervous about giving up the physical keyboard.
Email can be awkward, unless you pay extra for a physical keyboard.
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Adding a product with both a physical keyboard and world mode makes this a great addition to the Sprint family of devices.
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The other has a physical keyboard but won't be ready until April.
There's no firm timeframe on the Q10 model, with the physical keyboard, but Heins says he's hoping it will be ready in April.
The Q10's touch screen is significantly smaller, to give space for the physical keyboard, and looks similar to the recent BlackBerry Bold models.
This applies to the touch-screen version of BlackBerry 10, since RIM is bringing out a second BB 10 device with a physical keyboard.
Physically, the Instinct looks a lot like the iPhone -- a dark slab without a physical keyboard or many buttons dominated by a large screen.
The Irex looks sleeker than the Kindle, because it has a much thinner bezel around the screen, due mainly to the lack of a physical keyboard.
BlackBerry diehards will lament the lack of a physical keyboard they'll have to wait for the Q10, a model in the more traditional BlackBerry form.
Palm Inc. created a credible, innovative smartphone with a physical keyboard, but it was a slide-out version, which made the keyboard seem like a burden and an afterthought.
As noted above, I recommend using a wireless physical keyboard.
Heins said the physical keyboard version, the BlackBerry Q10, will likely come out eight to 10 weeks after a carrier releases a model with only a touch screen, the BlackBerry Z10.
It does, however, offer up smartphone-style predictive text at the bottom of the screen, which may help address some of the headache of this physical keyboard-free world we're all living in.
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Certainly the addition of the standard physical keyboard option (which Microsoft swears you will get used to in five days) makes you think you could actually get work done on it.
Something more akin to a typical two-handed physical keyboard?
Featuring a smooth, elegantly rounded ergonomic design and a physical keyboard that slides out only when needed, Palm Pre is engineered to feel natural in your hand and comfortably small in your pocket.
Heins also suggested to the AP that a modern BlackBerry with a physical keyboard might not arrive in the U.S. until May or June, a month or two behind other parts of the world.
These devices seek to move beyond the mouse and physical keyboard, letting people communicate with their gadgets by gesturing, using sign language or, in the case of Skinput, tapping on their hands, fingers and forearms.
Examples include BlackBerry's support for a physical keyboard as embodied in the more classically BlackBerry (and more universally pronounced) Q10, strong enterprise management and the ability to turn the phone off at a given time.
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