Comment by jeffbee
2 days ago
I am trying to think of a way in which BlackBerry keyboards can be considered to have a portrait layout. The only thing that disappointed me over the history of the BlackBerry was switching from the (morally correct) frowning key rows of the 957 and 7000 series to the (obviously evil) smiling rows of the 8000 and 9000 series.
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The only phones I know of that have a landscape / horizontal layout of the keyboard and screen are the Sidekick II (and variants) and the Nokia 9000. All other phones are landscape / vertical keyboard and screen not counting custom screens that even further squish the keyboard or take away screen real estate
Consider the BlackBerry 7290. Both its keyboard and screen were wider than tall.