Losing a hardware keyboard should be a trade off for a small sleek phone, not the other way around.

In short, you don't necessarily need to budget for a hardware keyboard with the iPad.

Users who do a lot of typing are still probably better off buying a device with a physical hardware keyboard.

The only restriction I'll add is that it must have a hardware keyboard.

Several hardware keyboards for kids also have initial sound pictures on its keys.

Phones may also be made with a hardware keyboard for text input.

So it's not just a hardware keyboard, its the software stack.

It's been one of the few phones where I've really not missed having a hardware keyboard.

In fact, pretty much the only optional feature is whether to have a hardware keyboard or not.

The old style Kindle with hardware keyboard is also still on sale at $139 without ads.