Too bad the Droid line of phones with physical keyboards is dead. For those of us who write long paragraphs of text for work or need to ssh into a server, it's a big loss...
I'm really surprised that there aren't more options on this front. I feel like every day I talk to a non-tech friend who, despite the sinking business ship that is RIM, _really_ loves (or loved & misses) their BlackBerry.
And every. single. time. I ask them why, it's about the keyboard and only the keyboard. There is a solid contingent of people who just don't like touch keyboards and there's very little anyone is going to do to convince them or train them otherwise. Which is fine.
Apple's clearly a lost cause, but it seems to me that a well-designed, BlackBerry'esque piece of hardware (with a physical keyboard) running and properly mated to a smaller-screen Android OS would do quite well.
I used a T-Mobile G2 for a long time because of the flip down keyboard.
I'm using Swype on my current phone and it's pretty good, but it has a tendency to pick really uncommon words instead of the common word I tried to type.
