Why are Blackberry phones mostly using keypad?

Why are Blackberry phones mostly using keypad? Instead of using touchscreen?
It was once a very much admired brand o smartphone,
but nowadays, it has grown unpopular.

 

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I'm posting from mine now. I like this key pad thank you. I don't want touch screen. But I know there will come a day. An it keeps the phone smaller, an mine flips most touch screens don't flip..

 

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What's the reason Blackberry maintains key pad design in most of its phones?
It does have touch screen phones, but not many.
Other phone manufacturers like Samsung, Sony etc., for smartphones, almost 100% are touchscreen.

 

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Why do we still use keypads when we are on regular PC's and laptops? They could use touch screens instead with them too. Imagine a thin touch screen device that looks similar to the keypad on the cellphone but on your table instead to use, no more dirty keys or stuck keys with that.

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I hate my current touch screen phone. It is so bad about "butt dialing" people when it's in my pocket even with the screen lock engaged. I used to have "quick dial" icons on my phone's desktop to call my most frequently dialed numbers...but I had to erase them all because of the butt dialing. Even with no quickdial icons..it still randomly calls people when I carry it in my pants pocket.

 

Butt dialing, I haven't heard that in a long time. I don't even sit on my wallet anymore, let alone my phone. A friend of mine had a blackberry and I found the keyboard hard to use (kept fat fingering them).

 

Well...technically, i guess it should be called "thigh dialing"...since it's my front pocket were talking about. It's just so annoying. I got a call from my elderly Aunt yesterday, worried that I was calling with bad news. I had to explain to her the concept of butt dialing, and how my call was just a random event.

Fortunately, the battery is starting to show it's age, so I can get a new phone here a few months. I'm tired of this one making me look like an idiot. Another thing it does to make me look stupid. When you're finished with a call, in order to hang up, you have to touch and drag this bar across the screen. However, if the person you are talking hangs up first, that screen goes away, and the "redial" button is in the same exact spot, so instead of hanging up, you end up redialing the last person...and if you're not quick enough to end the "end call" button, before it goes through, you have to explain to your friend how you're a moron that doesn't know how to use your phone.

 

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Yeah! When your phone makes you look bad. Sounds like the makings of a comedy. I'd say if you can qualify for an upgrade, don't wait for the batteries. Having an annoying phone ranks right up there with having an annoying car to drive. It pisses you off every time you use it.

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Sorry lazy today have only read a few of the replies so sorry if it's been already said.

It seems blackberry have always had a steady grasp on the corporate world, without a real competition chance. They virtually had the monopoly for their customer demographic. Many if not most, are reluctant to change to a touch screen. Mainly as they haven't experienced and have many presuppositions of the use. It's easily assumed that it would be too easy to press multiple buttons at once especially when you use a blackberry which has small buttons but specifically carved buttons to make it easy to sense which key is which. The same people have always believed blackberries were by far the most secure which is suitable for the corporate data exchanges. So they had a grasp on these customers who were reluctant of change. Though, in a fast changing world like the one we live in today, change wins. When people switched, experienced the else then it was hard to go back to blackberry.

So in my opinion the reason why they don't change is to keep the customers reluctant of change.