I ask for your suggestions on getting my wife a new phone. She currently has a samsung moment and loves it. She has no desire for 3d nor to play and high end games. Fruit Ninja is her favorite current. Also it must have a keyboard.
The Epic 2 is due in September. There was a survey of users with a slide-out keyboard that found in the first week they used the slider a lot but within month they were almost never opening the keyboards.
From the Keyboards section of the Getting Started:
Physical keyboards help you type more. Predictive keyboards like SwiftKey help you type less. They learn how you think and suggest words you will most likely say next. Voice Actions trys to prevent typing.