Yeah a slider is the next best thing - but the form factor of the Nokia E series was just perfect. I've tried quite a few "wide slider" keyboards and the amount of thumb movement required is really quite large compared with the slimmer E series qwerties so I could never really feel as comfortable (although I suppose I'd build up accuracy far quicker on that than the touch screen).
Things like blackberry's bold with the hybrid touch/qwerty setup look pretty good, but Nokia E series has a control key :) Really it was the perfect geeks phone, Nokia just didn't want to be for geeks any more I guess.
> but the form factor of the Nokia E series was just perfect.
Eseries is not a single form factor. Eseries phones exist in pretty much all possible form factor: candybar, bar, candybar/fold, slider and fold. At the very least.
Things like blackberry's bold with the hybrid touch/qwerty setup look pretty good, but Nokia E series has a control key :) Really it was the perfect geeks phone, Nokia just didn't want to be for geeks any more I guess.