&gt;&gt;They imagined a phone must have a physical keyboard<p>I get that I&#x27;m not representative of the market, but my pattern of using a smartphone involves a lot of email.  I don&#x27;t see that going away, as a lot of my communication involves people in other timezones.<p>I was way more productive in this when I had a blackberry, but, of course, it did suffer horribly when using the web.<p>It won&#x27;t change, but I wish there was enough demand to keep up competition for phones with keyboards such that there was a decent physical keyboard android.