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The Palm Pre was my dream phone
+1 I can’t get over how long it took Apple to adopt the same charging mechanism. It’s depressing how good the Pre phones were and how long it’s taken to get anywhere near close to as good.
Maybe one day.
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+1 I can’t get over how long it took Apple to adopt the same charging mechanism. It’s depressing how good the Pre phones were and how long it’s taken to get anywhere near close to as good.
Still waiting for multi-tasking that works as well as it did on the Pre. Maybe one day.
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I would love to a Droid 2 style keyboard for my phone http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/mo...
The Astro Slide is exactly this. Although - good luck getting one. And once you have one, it's just OK. Missing some fit and finish both in hardware and software.
A phone later I ended up getting a Samsung foldable (currently typing this on a Z Fold 3) and while I prefer physical keyboards, a split keyboard on the inner screen works pretty well in my experience.
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Neat! I like it enough to almost buy it. I use an android as my daily driver, so it's not a real productivity booster for me, but I would like to get my hands on it to see how it feels. I was a big fan of the Blackberry Key2 android phones (still use mine for dev work!), which included the full keyboard, so if this is anywhere close to that, it's probably pretty cool. Really the only thing stopping me is that this do…
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…
Exactly. At the extreme end, there are older Chinese users who often hand write Chinese on the screen to write a sentence, one character at a time. In the middle there are many things, like Latin but unusual layout such as French bepo, or Chinese input methods based on shapes, or Japanese kana, or the old T9 that I still see some people using (probably to have bigger letter targets). A touch screen really ease custom…
12-key kana flick input is my favorite input method for use on a touchscreen. Pretty fast and accurate.
Here's a video showing how it's used: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V2B9dgjbQxk