There are still quite a few Android phones out there with keyboards. I miss my BB keyboard on occasion, but I can usually just wait till I get to a proper computer if I want to type anything particularly lengthy.
Sure. My point is simply that when the iPhone came out, it was widely criticized for not having a keyboard. These days, not having a keyboard is the norm, and those few phones which still have them are really unusual. What was once a target for criticism is now standard, and vice versa.
True, what's interesting though is that the trend hasn't quite held up in the tablet space. Go to a coffee shop and it's entirely normal to see tablet users using a keyboard of some sort.
I was going to say that at least tablet users who want keyboards at least buy them as an add-on rather than buying tablets with keyboards built in. Then I realized that a tablet with a built-in keyboard is called a "notebook computer", and they're already quite popular.
Seems to me that it's all about the difference in size. A full-sized physical keyboard is well superior to a virtual one. But on a tiny phone, either way is going to be painful, so it matters much less.
