Did the iPhone almost have a QWERTY keyboard? Thank god it didn't

A new book suggests the iPhone almost ended up as a BlackBerry clone. Here's why we should be grateful it didn't work out like that If you've ever used a BlackBerry, you'll know that most of them have physical keyboards on them – although even BlackBerry seems to moving away from that model for many of its latest handsets. The BlackBerry QWERTY keyboards are easy to use, and fast typing is a breeze. So it's no surprise that Apple considered putting one on the first iPhone, right? Except it really doesn't seem likely.