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The smartphone market is complex with many operators, manufactures and operating systems out there. The operating systems include Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS, BlackBerry’s BlackBerry operating system and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. iOS and BlackBerry are only available on their own phones, while Android and Windows are available across a range of phones.
Smartphones come in a number of different styles, with all touchscreen, touchscreen and phone keyboard, touchscreen and “full” keyboard and just keyboard styles. Most new models involve at least a basic touch screen, as it tends to make menu navigation easier, with full keyboards for easier typing. Apple’s iPhone and its related iPad and iPad 2, the latter two while not technically being smartphones they run the same operating system that the iPhone does, are full touchscreen variants, with a minimal amount of tactile buttons. Two of HTC’s latest Android models the HTC Desire Z and the HTC ChaCha on the other hand go for the separate tactile full keyboard option. The method’s they chose however are very different, with the HTC Desire Z choosing to have the user slide out the keyboard from the phone in a landscape position, for a large screen size, while the HTC ChaCha choosing to have a permanently out keyboard below the screen with the phone in a portrait position, in much the same fashion as the classic BlackBerry layout.
As a smartphone for those that like to keep in touch with their social networks on the move, the HTC ChaCha has additional features other than its QWERTY keyboard to make typing easier, in addition to the usual raft of apps, both included on the phone and available from the android store, the phone is equipped with a Facebook button to allow those that so wish to more easily post pictures and their thoughts to Facebook on the move. This choice of having a permanent rather than slide or flip keyboard comes at a cost though, over other smartphones the screen is a bit small, especially compared to smartphones with slide keyboards in the landscape position. On the flip side it does keep the thickness of the phone down to similar to a pure touchscreen smartphone and make the phone less mechanically prone to failure. The ChaCha is meant to fit bellow the Desire range of phones in the feature line up and as well as having a smaller screen, it is less powerful and has less memory than the latest Desires.
The smartphone market is fleshing out and filling out, so where one style used to be the preserve of a certain manufacturer the choice is generally quite broad, with only Apple’s offerings being limited to a certain input layout.
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