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

Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And my removable battery, expandable storage, and IR blaster please.

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  • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah my old Ipaq was so much fun at sports bars…

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• GeneralVincent@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s not exactly the same but the Clicks phone keyboard is touch sensitive so you can swipe on the keyboard, and the button on the side has a notification LED

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  • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    so does the titan 2 and titan pocket, i have them both

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How is text editing?

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      • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        i will be honest, the Pocket is not suited for heavy writing or anything, it is geared toward people who want their phone to be a phone while still being able to use it for some things like NFC, etc (my reason for getting it). the Titan 2 is more like a small phablet with a keyboard and has the ability to program each key to do a function which i love.

        the writing on the titan 2 is more intuitive and you can double tap the space bar to enter cursor mode so you can swipe the keypad to move it around. this is a function i want on my Pocket, it makes everything easier. be prepared for a lot of comments in public, people are obsessed with it lol

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• dai@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nexus one had the trackball, the hero had a sensor or did both? IDK it’s been some years since I still had my nexus one. Maybe I’m thinking of the HTC Desire with the sensor. 

  I do remember running the original version(s) of MIUI on my nexus one, ahh simpler times. 

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  • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had a Nexus that I got as a hand me down. It had a ball with customizable colors

    The next one I had after that had an led you could customize for different types of notifications

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    • dai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah the LEDs were always handy to have, and the coloured notifications on the trackball (nexus 1) with a third party app was super cool at the time. My trackball after a few years got pretty dirty and didn’t want to clean with chemicals in fear of damaging it. 

      Currently using a Nothing (3) which is somewhat similar with the small led display on the back. 

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      • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I still have it around somewhere in hopes I can fix it

        When I got it, my family said it didn’t work, it had some weird error. I charged it and turned it on so they were like “sure you can have it”

        It was my first smartphone,. actually, and I used it for quite a while until it died again. I don’t remember the error, but it was basically bricked and I couldn’t factory reset it via the phone menu. I had a very young child and trying to figure out the android sdk for a computer to fiddle that out was too taxing for me

        I really liked that phone for sure. I’m sure it’s a lot of nostalgia, but I miss the older simpler phones. Much easier to handle, too.

        I’ve currently just been using every couple generations of the Xa model. This one’s a pixel 7a, last was a 4a which the child has now. It’s got severe battery life issues after that update recently but I haven’t looked into it too hard. Been wanting to look for some alternatives and I’m leaning towards something unconventional, at least by today’s standards. I checked out that phone and it really looks good, both aesthetically and specs wise

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• Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ahhh I loved this thing

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes. This. I second this.

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