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Thank you, that sounds really promising! There is no hurry for me now anyway, but now I know what I need to watch. The Pro1 is a very interesting device (though I would really prefer a classical slider like the BlackBerry PRIV), and being able to have an eye on update policy etc. in the meantime is a good thing anyway before spending a larger amount of money on the next handset.

Thank you for your reply. That won't be necessary. For cyrillic layouts there are two standards: the national layouts that don't have much to do with 'qwerty' (that's what is usually used for on-screen keyboards), and the so-called 'phonetic' layouts where the cyrillic characters are matched to a 'qwerty' layout as good as is possible. That's the most natural choice when you have a hardware keyboard with latin character set. For Russian and Ukrainian this is usually called 'yasherty' (яшерты / яшерти), and you'll have 'a' on 'a', 'с' on 's', 'д' on 'd' and so forth. When I got m

As BlackBerry's future engagement on the device market is highly doubtful, my current device will probably have reached end of life by the end of this year. While I am still almost perfectly happy with it I am already looking out for a possible successor. And while an all-touch device might even be a possible choice, the Pro1 has attracted my attention. Having also backed (and then immediately sold) the Unihertz Titan I have started understanding that a physical keyboard alone is by far not enough to be productive and happy with one's device. The software is as important. And since there