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Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by sammorrowdrums »

awinter-py wrote: post #64

I 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 miss the full keyboard so much. I didn’t need predictive text, had real tactile feedback and that little wheel mouse was pretty good too.

The amount of typos and reliance on auto-correct (often incorrectly correcting) proves that this the touchscreen is a somewhat cackhanded input method, even with a full qwerty keyboard on a very large screen. I’m on iPhone Max Pro, still fat-fingering the keys while typing this.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by MichaelMoser123 »

dddw wrote: post #36

Yes I miss it everyday, I feel so clumsy typing on a piece of glass, and make soo many typos. I could type BLIND without typos whole emails while maintaining a casual conversation (much to the annoyance of my girlfriend). There are a lot of BlackBerry-stans still on crackberry.com holding out on older and newer BlackBerry phoned (key2 being the latest). Really loved my Q10 with bb10os and my Keyone running Android! S…

I see that there are some unlocked blackberry phones up on ebay, so you could possibly buy one.

https://ebay.com/b/BlackBerry-OS-Unlocked-Cell-Phones-Smartp...

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by yissp »

rbanffy wrote: post #116
jacquesm wrote: post #106

Now imagine that all of our computers would run an OS like the one underlying the BlackBerry (QnX), the responsiveness was to a very large degree a direct effect of having a soft real time OS as the basis to build the rest of the applications on.

Unlike Java, QNX has no warning against using it to control a nuclear reactor in the EULA. That says something ;-)

In fact, QNX really is used in nuclear power plants https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/nuclear-plant-powers-up-on-re...

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by rbanffy »

jacquesm wrote: post #160
rbanffy wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlike Java, QNX has no warning against using it to control a nuclear reactor in the EULA. That says something ;-)

It's rock solid. We ran a pretty large installation of these to control a sizeable fraction of the worlds flow of container shipping. Over the course of the project there wasn't a single outage attributable to the OS or the application itself.

I remember an ad where they mentioned a computer running QNX that was booted once and turned off once, when it was decommissioned 10+ years or so later.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by approxim8ion »

thegagne wrote: post #4
Dracophoenix wrote: post #2

I wished I had a Blackberry when I was a much younger, but personally I miss Windows Phones a lot more.

Windows Phones were awful in general but provided something that no full featured smart phone can: simplicity. Notifications? Hardly. Browser? Barely works. Apps? Pshh. Instant messaging? I hope you like SMS! Games? There’s a couple good ones you never heard of that won’t be maintained. But heck, if you want peace and quiet and while still offering the basics in good form, the Windows Phone couldn’t be beat.

I had one of the later (probably last) Windows Phones from Nokia, and I think they corrected a lot of these gripes by the end. Notifications were relatively okay from what I remember, and WhatsApp worked perfectly fine for IM. Never bothered with games, but I understand the app development landscape was quite awful with it.

Still, an absolutely stunning phone with the best screen I have ever used, and easily the best camera I have ever used. Of course, I dropped my budget significantly after that one broke, but it was truly magnificent.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by smcl »

vincentmarle wrote: post #177
smcl wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I loved my blackberry's keyboard, but I adjusted to iOS on-screen keyboard (starting circa the iPhone 4S) pretty well. Last couple of years though iOS autocorrect has started to be extremely aggressive and frequently very wrong (incorrectly changing were->we're, ill->i'll for example. and today changing "Torvalds" to "Torshavn" or something when I was talking about Linus and not the Faroes). If someone has a nice pho…

> autocorrect has started to be extremely aggressive and frequently very wrong First thing I do when setting up a new phone is turning off auto correct and auto capitalization. Yes, I still make mistakes, but I prefer becoming quite handy at using my backspace button than having to fight the auto correct all damn time.

Yeah for all my complaining, autocorrect is still just about a net benefit but it’s MUCH less than it once was.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by kilroy123 »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #150
awinter-py wrote: post #64

I 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…

Reminds me of the Sidekick, but not the one that slides vertically but the one that spun around. God I wish they'd make a modern Android phone like it.

Honestly, that was my all time favorite phone.

It might be nostalgia speaking, but I feel like I loved and enjoyed that phone more than an iPhone.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by bloopernova »

awinter-py wrote: post #64

I 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…

Do you ever try using a bluetooth keyboard with a mobile phone? They're certainly not as good as a nice mechanical keyboard, but they can improve the text input experience many times over a screen keyboard.
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