Blackberry is back, but have we learned to live without the smartphone keyboard?

By Adam Turner
Updated March 1 2017 - 6:38pm, first published 11:32am
Australia's hottest smartphones of 2007: iMate JasJam (actually a rebadged HTC Hermes that was also sold as the Dopod 838 Pro)
Australia's hottest smartphones of 2007: iMate JasJam (actually a rebadged HTC Hermes that was also sold as the Dopod 838 Pro)
Australia's hottest smartphones of 2007: Palm Treo 750, merging a Personal Digital Assistant and mobile phone
Australia's hottest smartphones of 2007: Palm Treo 750, merging a Personal Digital Assistant and mobile phone
Australia's hottest smartphones of 2007: Nokia's E61i
Australia's hottest smartphones of 2007: Nokia's E61i
Australia's hottest smartphones of 2007: The Blackberry Curve 8310.
Australia's hottest smartphones of 2007: The Blackberry Curve 8310.

The iPhone generation has grown up with onscreen keyboards, but do old-school smartphone users still pine for their old Blackberry's physical keyboard.

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