I bought a small Bluetooth keyboard like this a while back, but it was unusable due to key bounce. I think of trying this one but feel a bit burned by the previous:
Besides giving physical keys, it’s nice to free up screen space.
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ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 2 months ago
If this had a 4g module and possibility to install messaging apps, il dump my smartphone for this one without blinking. My phone is basically a chat machine, but I miss so much those blackberry keyboards with physical keys…
solrize@lemmy.world 2 months ago
nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 2 months ago
You might like Unihertz Titan Pocket then
soupbowl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve got one of these. Fantastic phone but the official OS was basically abandoned in terms of security updates. Need to check out custom ROMs.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
If this had a 4g module
It says in the first paragraph that it does not have cellular connectivity.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
This was a hypothetical. Like “if I had eaten this morning I wouldn’t be hungry.”
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Oh I see. Yeah, slap a cell modem and SIM card on this thing, write a basic-ass FOSS OS, and baby you got a stew goin’.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There was a flip out physical keyboard phone called the fxtech pro 1 that was broadly liked by reviewers. I wonder if they ever made new models
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Same as the Unihertz Titan. I ran with that for two years and it was decent, if underpowered.
The dream is all but dead for all fourteen and a half of us QWERTY phone enthusiasts I think. A surprising number went to the Samsung Galaxy Flip models, though having used this for two years or so, I wouldn’t recommend it either.
Maybe one day…
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I too ran a unihertz titan for a few years, massive beast of a thing but I love a keyboard. Before that I had the blackberry keytwo which was my favourite phone of all time.
I backed the planet computers astroslide before they took everyone’s money and ran after delivering a fraction of the units promised and what was delivered was woefully out of date due to their ineptitude.
I still dream of a blackberry key three, but alas my dreams will never be fulfilled and I’m trapped on a shitty touch screen :'(
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I would love a good qwerty phone. They’ve just been making consistently shitty ones. Just give me one in the end form factor as the BB Curve and we’re golden. I don’t want to have a massive slab of a phone just to have a keyboard.
Cargon@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
So I actually bought the f(x)tech Pro^1x thinking that it was going to be great having a physical keyboard that slides out again. But I found that I rarely actually used it. Using it required that the screen being landscape mode. I’m actually much happier just using a different touch keyboard layout. I use Thumb-Key specifically now. It took some time to retrain my brain but I quite enjoy it.