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Would seriously consider buying this if it were a case with a back-sliding landscape keyboard. Something like: https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/fd8703ad0b0ec545ac98701c39...
The Palm Pre was my dream phone
The only complaint I had about it was the MASSIVE bezels. They easily could have made the screen at least another inch bigger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_4#/media/File:Motorola_D...
It was supposed to be a joke! Not inspiration! https://i.redd.it/g8o4nu49rfz51.jpg I like having a physical keyboard, but not like this... it makes the phone too long. A slide out is preferred. I'm just going to stick with a regular bluetooth keyboard.
I would love to a Droid 2 style keyboard for my phone http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_4#/media/File:Motorola_D...
I've got a Pixel 3 right now, but I'd be willing to change phones if one worked very well with a physical keyboard.
Or maybe I just have to buy one of those GPD Win 4 devices, or the Ayaneo Slide...
A less elegant but practical option for note taking in class or writing docs is a portable folding keyboard for iPhones, like this iClever Bluetooth Keyboard
Blackberry 8700 is the gold standard for a phone with a keyboard. It is the most productive cellphone I have ever owned. Phone calls, text message and email is what it did well. And it did exceedingly well. The thumbwheel was just the right spot to quickly scan an email. The keyboard is as good as they get. The operating system was built to do exactly this and not that much more. It is really hard to convey how great…
> They lost focus on what the existing customers really loved. The problem is that iPhone and Android were stealing users from that pool. Lots of BB users loved the physical keyboard, but I feel many of them were fairly easily lured away by the greater functionality offered by touchscreens. BB actually tried to hold on to this niche for quite a while, they didn't launch their touchscreen-centric BlackBerry 10 line un…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z <- this was an android phone with a keyboard, and far from the only one.
I'm kinda surprised that no-one has mentioned that languages other than English exist. Virtual keyboards, while a bit clunky, allow to easily switch input languages, and most of the world for whom English isn't their native language use this feature very very often. Physical keyboards for laptops solve this issue by having different keyboard layouts for different languages (and are usually geared towards that languag…
Especially the switched Y/Z keys on some layouts are hard to handle. And the French layout with different AZWQM positions is just pure madness.
There are a few layouts that include most latin characters on one layout. A lot of European layouts have most latin characters somewhere (with the help of dead keys or AltGr). There are also international English keyboard layouts, although I will never get used to the small return key of the US keyboards, why make it so small if it's even one key short (101 vs 102)? :D
For people who write in different alphabets (cyrillic, arabic) this might be a completely different story.
Blackberry 8700 is the gold standard for a phone with a keyboard. It is the most productive cellphone I have ever owned. Phone calls, text message and email is what it did well. And it did exceedingly well. The thumbwheel was just the right spot to quickly scan an email. The keyboard is as good as they get. The operating system was built to do exactly this and not that much more. It is really hard to convey how great…
I mean, in fairness they did spend several key years post-2007 with their head in the sand pretending that iPhone didn't exist or wasn't a threat and running the "tools not toys" ad campaign. It was really the rise of BYOD policies that killed blackberry I think— they had enthusiastic fans but it was a pretty small group relative to those who would pick the iPhone given a choice.
If RIM was willing to downsize and continue serving the niche of users that just want a good keyboard for messaging and don't care about content consumption or apps, they could still be around today making products for that niche. But things don't really work that way in a market that only rewards perpetual growth.
Blackberry 8700 is the gold standard for a phone with a keyboard. It is the most productive cellphone I have ever owned. Phone calls, text message and email is what it did well. And it did exceedingly well. The thumbwheel was just the right spot to quickly scan an email. The keyboard is as good as they get. The operating system was built to do exactly this and not that much more. It is really hard to convey how great…
Blackberry 8700 is the gold standard for a phone with a keyboard. It is the most productive cellphone I have ever owned. Phone calls, text message and email is what it did well. And it did exceedingly well. The thumbwheel was just the right spot to quickly scan an email. The keyboard is as good as they get. The operating system was built to do exactly this and not that much more. It is really hard to convey how great…
Don't discount that unified inbox either. What an incredible thing, never seen anything like it implemented a tenth as well since.
