Side-sliding QWERTY: exploring the Nokia E75, 5730 and LG KS360

LG KS360, Nokia 5730 XpressMusic and Nokia E75

“Steve Litchfield compares three slide-sliders (two of them Symbian) and reckons that a) on the whole, you get what you pay for! and b) that Nokia’s 5730 XpressMusic contains a number of (at first) mystifying hardware design flaws.There’s definitely been something in the air over the last year or so, with slide-sliding qwerty phones popping out of the woodwork from all directions. It seems that qwerty is back in vogue, but that users would rather it was tucked away most of the time to keep their ‘classic’ phone looks. Here I wanted to directly compare the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic and Nokia E75, obviously from exactly the same design department (much of the main board layout, mechanical frame/slide and specification is identical), adding in the mass market LG KS360 by way of showing how far down qwerty now goes down the food chain.” Read more here:

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