After launching the touchscreen-only Viewty and Prada phones, you might think LG is keen to kill off the humble mobile keypad. But it seems consumers have said 'not so fast!' to the company, with the result that LG is now including slide-out keypads into a number of its touchscreen phones.
"We did a lot of research into consumers' reactions to touchscreen technology, and some are a little bit nervous," Jeremy Newing, head of marketing for UK and Ireland at LG, told me yesterday. "People still want to have a keypad, whether it's for texting or dialling numbers. So we're doing that."
He cites LG's new KF600 phone as an example of this policy in action, with its slide-out keypad, but also the way it splits its display into a non-touchscreen main screen, and a touchscreen 'InteractPad' which has virtual buttons that change according to what you're doing on the phone - texting, playing music, taking photos or whatever.


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