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Old Oct 22, 2007 | 10:07 pm
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was sitting on my flight home JFK-LAX on Friday and my seatmate for the next 5.5 hrs arrives and sits down. He notices me on my BB and asks me to show him my keyboard/keys. It appears that his BB instead of the Y key being where it should (ie next to T as per the qwerty keyboard), it was where the Z should be - and vice versa. I thought it was weird and he said it had taken him a while to get used to it.

Anyway I have a cingular 8700 and his was a TMobile 8700. So was his a once off or is this known on the TMobile 8700s?
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Old Oct 22, 2007 | 10:56 pm
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German keyboard, perhaps? Just in case you don't know where T Mobile hails from.
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Old Oct 23, 2007 | 5:58 am
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That's a QWERTZU keyboard and like the previous poster said; it's German. So he either got an imported unit (off Ebay perhaps) or someone at RIM screwed up
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Old Oct 23, 2007 | 11:20 am
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Originally Posted by alect
was sitting on my flight home JFK-LAX on Friday and my seatmate for the next 5.5 hrs arrives and sits down. He notices me on my BB and asks me to show him my keyboard/keys. It appears that his BB instead of the Y key being where it should (ie next to T as per the qwerty keyboard), it was where the Z should be - and vice versa. I thought it was weird and he said it had taken him a while to get used to it.

Anyway I have a cingular 8700 and his was a TMobile 8700. So was his a once off or is this known on the TMobile 8700s?
I had a T-Mobile 8700 and my keyboard was normal--as another poster mentioned, probably a German version.
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Old Oct 23, 2007 | 8:23 pm
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