I think the BlackBerry 7230 was the most effective communication device ever made. It had zero distraction, Zero clutter. Only blazing fast Mail, Text, Calenders and Phone/Contacts.
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#262There are some capacitive physical keyboards to put on the screen of some Samsung models.
Unfortunately it seems that the corresponding firmware or apps only exist for the Korean versions of the customized Android.
That's too bad, because I love the concept.
I'd love that to be generalized to other models and other brands too.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
SwiftKey is getting buggier but is still a massive step up from the default since it: - works with more languages - can be configured to suggest completions and corrections but not auto-apply them (If anyone from MS/SwiftKey team wonders: these days if I delete a word and start on a new it shows both the original word and the best predictions for the new word. Thankfully it only inserts the new one - but sadly it ins…
I don't get how Swiftkey went from being almost perfect to being almost perfectly shit at predicting what I want to say. I've switched to GBoard and also hate it (e.g. it won't auto-capitalize "I" for me), but at least the predictions are usable.
I was wondering if that's a problem isolated to my first language, but apparently it got worse in English as well. Although, it surely can't be as bad in a language that doesn't have agglutination.
For example "olamayacakmış" ("ol-a-me-cek-miş", meaning something like "we found out that it isn't possible to make that happen in the future") was an easy hit before and I could write "olamyckms" and used to get predicted. For some reason not anymore.
Just wanted to share the bug (?) that reduced my mobile typing speed by 30% in a single hit.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#264I am still using Bold 9780, not for the nostalgia but for the functionality, as limited as it might be today. I left my first (old) number in it, when I migrated to iPhone/Androids, with new numbers. Today it serves quite well, as a notification/SMS/OTP and backup emergency device; bank(s), medical contacts, old friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. I receive no junk/spam calls, whatsoever. The battery lasts two we…
> If only the functionality of a softphone/SIP app could somehow be re-instated
Sip.fm has worked fine for me in the past, as recently as a couple months ago.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#265I could type 55 wpm on the keyboard. Every time I use a screen keyboard I feel like I lose 10 IQ points. I can use a physical keyboard without looking, but the screen keyboard takes twice as long and consumes my full attention if I want any speed. The blackberry felt like an extension of my brain on the internet. Touchscreen devices feel like an extension of the internet in my brain + eyes, not as nice. I used my bla…
I've used to send text messages in the classroom without taking the phone out of my pocket. No-look writing was a thing :)
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#266Not the way the question is phrased, I never had a RIM BlackBerry, but I have a TCL KeyOne right now and I love it. For all my life I only had phones with keyboards, and KeyOne was the only one available at the time, and I wouldn't buy a phone without a keyboard. I really hate typing on glass, can't do it with a basic keyboard and I refuse to rely on some spyware to constantly correct me for a low price of sending ev…
What's a TCL KeyOne, it doesn't Google for me.
KeyOne, KeyOne silver and Key2 were all made by TCL, no BlackBerry. The phone is still being sold as a BlackBerry device with all the BlackBerry software, but it's not RIM BlackBerry.
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#267Using KeyONE, very happy with it as long as the networks let me have it. Loved the Bold, Q10, Classic, but living with android without apps going south on me being outdated is the best option for the present. It is the 4g memory India version instead of the original 3g memory usa version. I want to try the Titan Pocket as a backup/ alternative, and will get the OM Blackberry if it ever materializes, if I can afford to. Keyboards are the only way to go, and a backup slab phone for browsing/viewing time, although the KeyONE screen is plenty big enough to do it all too.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#268Bold 9900 is the most productive phone I ever owned.
The keys were really tight together, but they carefully made the shapes so it was very easy to know which keys I was hitting without even thinking about it.
The touchpad was super accurate. The escape and BB buttons next to the touchpad plus lots of keyboard shortcuts meant I could really jam around the interface without going through zillions of menus or icons and whatnot.
The touchscreen made it really sweet to just click or rapidly scroll.
The overall size was easily small enough to fit comfortably in my pocket.
I think what it comes down to is that the use-case is for people who need to read and respond professional messages in a timely manner as the primary function of the device.
I wish someone would just take that exact form factor and turn it into a simple Bluetooth tool that connects to messaging apps.