Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  …for you. Can you concede that maybe someone else might not like it?

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  • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure I’m even happy to have hardware diversity

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• rollin@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same. This hardware keyboard is taking up potential screen real-estate.

  If you want a hardware keyboard, just use a bluetooth one, you can get folding ones which fold up pretty small.

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• AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same here. I get the nostalgia factor, and that tactile buttons can feel nice, but other than that I feel like it’s just a one-size-fits-all solution that doesn’t necessarily work well.

  Instead of a quick tap, you have to actually press on each button, which slows down typing. You can’t resize, recolor, or reformat your keyboard to fit your needs better, there’s no split keyboard functionality for landscape mode, etc.

  Plus it’s just more mechanical failure points and areas that dust and gunk can get stuck in.

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  • dublet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never had any of my phones with keyboards have a mechanical failure. I can type blindly on a physical keyboard, not so with an OSD one. Does the tap register? Does it predict into the right word? Who knows.

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can blindly type with an on screen keyboard, it’s not that hard. What’s wrong with your phone where taps aren’t registering? And poor text prediction would be the same on physical vs on screen KB.

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      • dublet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I can blindly type with an on screen keyboard, it’s not that hard

        You can type a full actual sentence on an OSD keyboard including punctuation without looking at it?

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  • Melonpoly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Plus it’s just more mechanical failure points and areas that dust and gunk can get stuck in.

    Good thing this has been solved for years now. It’s not like keyboards are a new invention.

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• Jinarched@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s all about tactile feedback for me.

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