HTC slams hardware keyboards, ships One X in Canada

01604updated 02:15 pm EDT, Fri April 20, 2012 HTC thinks hardware keyboards hurt progress

HTC has kept itself in the limelight in the past day with both revelations of a shift in its attitude towards touch as well as shipping its first LTE-equipped One X. Speaking at the company's Freqs event in Seattle, creative lead Claude Zellweger told MobileBurn and others in attendance that HTC was backing away from hardware keyboards. Partly echoing what the late Steve Jobs said in 2007, he saw physical keyboards as still having some interest but ultimately being obstacles. Going all-touch let HTC have the freedom to design the way it wanted."We feel that putting too much effort into that

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