I don't understand why they chose that insanely long form factor. What's wrong with landscape mode?
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#312Would 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
that and the Sharp Zaurus! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus#/media/File:Zauru...
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#314Time is a flat circle.
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#315A question I always ask is why we can't control our phones via desktop computers yet. It's 2024; this should be possible and mainstream without half-baked solutions like Airdroid or unacceptable workarounds like rooting your iPhone. I sit in front of a full-size keyboard and mouse literally all day, yet when I need to do something on my phone I'm forced to physically pick it up and use its horrible tiny little keyboa…
Windows comes with PhoneLink which lets you mirror your screen onto your desktop and click your apps with your mouse.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm waiting for the day they remove the keyboard altogether and just have everyone use voice to text and eventually thought to text. I'd love to see that black mirror episode expanding on the meme of everyone sitting at a table texting each other at the same table but because of voice to text they've had this ingenious idea that they could just talk to each other instead!
And that is the last day I ever eat at a restaurant.
You won't eat at a restaurant where the people at the table talk to each other instead of texting each other?
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#317I both love this and am horrified. It looks like it'd turn a Pro Max into a 9 inch tall phone. Since it's a case, you'd need a new one each phone upgrade. (I used to do this with the Apple battery cases, until I came to my senses and/or magsafe.) Although, I still occasionally long for the blind accuracy of the old Blackberry keyboard. I think I'd prefer an adjustable magsafe attached keyboard that can do either land…
The picture of the back of it made me think it was a keyboard separate from the case that plugs into the usb-c port with a long case that goes around it and has the buttons poke through. I could be wrong, but to do it that way makes more sense to me. The keyboard can’t be the full width of the Pro Max if it is a separate piece that works with any model so maybe not.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
There was a time, when we had both... but somehow android phone manufacturers stopped being inventive and stopped making different phones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z <- this was an android phone with a keyboard, and far from the only one.
I had the G1, and loved it, but I wanted that phone because it looked so much nicer.
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#319Look Grandpa, new Blackberry.
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#320It's fascinating how phones have come full circle. One of my first cell phones had a full QWERTY keyboard with physical keys that was exposed when you slid the top face of the phone sideways. Many phones in that era had similar full keyboards. The fact that the iPod touch, iPhone, iPads, and other surface devices didn't need physical keys was seen as more modern and desirable at the time. Now it looks like people are…
Someone creating a peripheral that will sell like 10 units total isn't phones coming "full circle". There has always been stuff like this out there. Heck you can get iPhone keyboard attachments on AliExpress for 1/20 the price of this. No one is interested.