BlackBerry Curve 8900 (Javelin) is using AZERTY keyboard for French users
If you take a look a deep closer, we can see that the upcoming BlackBerry Curve 8900 is using AZERTY keyboard. Not QWERTY. But of course, there will be QWERTY keyboard version for English users. AZERTY layout, according to its Wikipedia page is:
Keyboard layout used in several (at least partially) French-speaking countries, including France and Belgium. The French language uses several accented letters, such as é, à and ô, as well as a few other symbols such as œ that do not occur in English.
We know that there are lot of French users in Canada, the headquarter of BlackBerry creator, RIM. Yet, the Wikipedia also states that:
In Canada, where the practice of writing accents on capital letters is generally followed, enhanced QWERTY keyboard layouts are used instead of AZERTY. Two slightly different layouts coexist, the Canadian Multilingual Standard and the Canadian French layout. Both allow easy typing of accented capital letters and of French quotation marks. However they too lack an œ key.
It is really good that BlackBerry accomodates such thing, since I have never heard other smartphone that has both QWERTY and AZERTY version. Good job BlackBerry!
i meant 3G
should be cheaper though…
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