With the proliferation of the touchscreen phones, it's quite surprising that full QWERTY phones are also in bloom. In the past, I only get to see QWERTY phones in the Internet c/o RIM Blackberry or Palm Treo and they were very expensive. Fast-forward to 2009-ish to present and you see a whole lot of them coming out. There's the Nokia E63, E71, E72 and their cheapest yet, the Nokia C3. There's also the Samsung Omnia B7320 or the LG GW300 from the KR manufacturers. There are also hybrid touch-and-QWERTY devices such as the Nokia N900 or Motorola Droid or ... the list could go on and on! But my favorite of them all is the "Blackcherry"! Okay, I made that moniker up. What I meant were mobile phones made by Cherry Mobile (http://www.cherrymobile.com.ph) that had full QWERTY, candybar form mobile phones that looked like Blackberry phones. These "Blackcherry" mobiles are the cheapest lot of full QWERTY phones I have seen. What makes them so cool is that most of them support dual-sim standby (meaning you don't have to manually switch between SIM cards like the days of old). Most are also packed with features such as FM radio, Bluetooth, expandable memory card slot, camera and even WLAN for higher end "Blackcherry" models. The current king of the hill QWERTY phone from Cherry Mobile is the Trident (http://www.cherrymobile.com.ph/products_inner.php?id=109&title=Trident) which supports 3 SIM cards which would cost about Php10,000 to Php12,000 (I'm guessing). As for the durability and stability of the devices, I cannot comment on that yet but I bought the Q3i model (http://www.cherrymobile.com.ph/products_inner.php?id=108&title=Q3i) and I will try to use this as a test subject in these areas. I will also try to come up with some sort of review for the said device after I've used it for about a month or more. Do you own Cherry Mobile devices? What can you say about them? The comments section are open.
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