Nope. Have some nostalgia for Danger Hiptop though, aka T-Mobile Sidekick.
Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Has anyone ever designed a slide out BT keyboard for phones? It could be a single size part with attachments for the different phone models. Or a pop socket style where it just glues onto your phone/case.
That's a really good idea, I like it!
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah for all my complaining, autocorrect is still just about a net benefit but it’s MUCH less than it once was.
it’s funny how when it doesn’t work the negative feels is perhaps much stronger than the positive feeling when it works correctly
Autocorrect always picks the wrong word on android.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#254Yes 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 could type BLIND without typos
Yup. I could type accurately and drive at the same time (don't do that today, kids) simply because I didn't have to take my eyes off the road at all. Those little raised bumps on F and J keys helped.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#255Battery life (4-5 days) and being able to have an extra battery or being able to share is what I miss most. I also miss the customizations for alerting. I would set personal colour coded alerts on the led - that was perfect. Customization of alerts is very limited on anything else I’ve used since. The iPhone keyboard seems to be getting worse with its auto correct. If it gets any worse (or maybe it’s me) I will get t…
Yes! The alerting customization were awesome. Things like always break thru alert for person X when in silent mode.
I also think that the smart phone market is dead as far as new features go. Sure, there will be CPU or camera spec bumps but there haven't been compelling new features in years.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Has anyone ever designed a slide out BT keyboard for phones? It could be a single size part with attachments for the different phone models. Or a pop socket style where it just glues onto your phone/case.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#257I 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…
Try swiftkey etc, it's amazing
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#258I miss my Palm Tungsten
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#259I 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 managed to somehow type on the software keyboard without looking at it with a 95% or so accuracy. However I find that I’m only able to do so on my iPhone SE which is small size.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#260No one has yet mentioned the Blackberry Priv, an Android phone with a quality keyboard sold as recently as 2016. I loved it so much, but it recently stopped holding charge among other issues, so I had to get a new Samsung. I type an order of magnitude slower now, and I write constantly. But there is no alternative. I don't know if you guys are aware, but https://www.onwardmobility.com/ is supposed to release a new An…
You don't have to get a new phone because the old one "stops holding a charge". You can get the battery replaced.
There were other reasons too I didn't bother mentioning. The 4G network sometimes spontaneously disappeared,
and my GPS would also be extremely inconsistent, dropping out most of the time. Very weird behavior.