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Cell phone with detachable keyboard: Important design feature, or gimmick?
LG and Verizon have officially launched the Versa, a new cell phone that wants to have its cake and eat it too: In addition to the touch screen, there's a detachable QWERTY keyboard. It's got a bunch of features intended to compete with the iPhone--Visual Voicemail, accelerometer, customizable home screen--and a few features absent in the iPhone, like a camera that can record video, a web browser that can run flash, and a micro SD port.
But the feature we're most interested in, from an interface/form factor perspective, is that removable keyboard. What do you think, will people take a shine to it, or is it the kind of thing they'll always leave at home?
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you get a full keyboard when you want, when you don't, you can just take it off and its a normal phone no problem
modular gadgets are the future - take off the camera when you dont need it, the screen, the memory (already got SD slot) ...all of it!
i have seen one where the earpiece bit of the phone detaches and becomes a bluetooth headset...
the future i reckon.