[shinratdr]

> the Blackberry KeyONE wouldn't have been the moderate success that it was.

Ok, well I come from the land of BlackBerry, and I have seen maybe one person with this phone in the wild. Keep in mind that BlackBerry was still a significant force here until years after it was dead everywhere else.

Just out of curiosity, how old is your better-half? Did they have a hardware keyboard device in the past?

[Jaruzel]

I don't think age has anything to do with it. People either prefer hard keyboards or not. Technology should be an enabler, and allow people to use the device formats they want. Just because 90% of people are now used to touch keyboards, doesn't make the remaining 10% wrong.