Are you sick and tired of typing slowly on your phone, because you need to hit each key 2-3 times just to get one letter? Would you prefer something faster but don’t like the built-in dictionary, and you don’t want to get a touch screen keyboard either, because it will make your screen dirty with fingerprints all the time?

Then you should consider a QWERTY keyboard phone. If you know how to type on a normal computer keyboard, a QWERTY keyboard on your phone will work really well for you. The keys may be quite small, but they’re far enough apart so you can still type fast without making too many mistakes. There are a lot of QWERTY phones available in the market, so the question you’re left iwith is: which one do you choose?

A good example of a QWERTY keyboard mobile is the Nokia E63 phone, which is actually a very affordable phone with a layout similar to most Blackberry phones. There are lots of other models of QWERTY phones besides this one as well, so you’ll need to look around before deciding which one to get. You should also think about which features are important to you – do you want a phone that flips or slides open, or do you want the keyboard to be more easily accessible, like the Nokia E63 or most BlackBerry layouts? Do you want a smartphone, or are you just going to use the phone for texting and normal phone-like things like calling people? Imagine that, a phone that can phone people! That seems to be the last thing on everyone’s feature list these days.

Phones with QWERTY keyboards fall into two basic categories: smartphones and quick messaging phones. Smartphones (also called PDA’s) are communication and organization devices combined into one gadget, usually with some kind of operating system that isn’t just limited to phone features – which means you can actually install other applications on it. They generally have larger screens as well and more storage space for files. Quick messaging phones are generally smaller than PDA’s and are just aimed at two things: sending lots of text messages and making phone calls. So they are basically just normal phones that have a QWERTY keyboard as well.

Mobile phones used to just be phones, nowadays they’re all-in-one communication and entertainment devices – like little portable computers. So, which one do you want?