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I doubt this thing will get anywhere, but this discussion thread is making me nostalgic about the wild times of smartphone design in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Motorola Droid. HTC Touch. Palm Pre. Nokia N900/N95/N97 and their other crazy form factors. All the different Blackberrys. Phones were sliding, folding, twisting. Then at some point everyone decided that a glass rectangle was the only way to go and that was i…
A 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…
The 15 promax is more than capable of doing this, but iOS is the limitation from a usability standpoint. Can't even split the screen like you can on an iPad.
What I'm trying to say is it looks great and just iterate!
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It'd be nice if the keyboard could flip backwards or slide away seamlessly.
Wow I guess it’s been long enough. The mid aughts explored this whole world extensively and it all sucked which is why we ended up where we are. Although watching video content wasn’t a thing the last time around so maybe there is room for improvement now…
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That sounds like re-inventing the Sidekick ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Hiptop )!
RIP, I miss the Sidekick so much. Probably every millennial would have given anything to have one of these in 2001, but a data plan, the hardware cost itself, and exclusivity to T-Mobile placed it firmly outside the reach of everyone I knew including myself.
It’s incredibly rare that I can type even a single sentence correctly on the iPhone. In that one it came out ‘in’ and not ‘on’ for example. In that one I typed sample not example. I got that last one right! I see the arguments from both sides but it’s a real shame the design space of smartphones has become so conservative. Such intensely personal devices deserve to be more varied. If I thought I could build some sort…
Wonder how they’re getting around patent encumbrance. Ryan Seacrest already tried this a decade ago. https://www.pcmag.com/news/ryan-seacrest-invests-in-typo-iph... https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/typos-hardware-keyboard-for...
Visually, it looks a lot less like a copy of a BlackBerry keyboard, so that helps. The first patent quoted in that lawsuit article has expired [1]. The second patent is still active [2], but is related to a "ramped-key keyboard" (essentially curved), which this new product is not AFAICT. The third, a design patent [3], is still active, but would appear to only apply to a complete handheld device that includes an atta…
I can't think of any of their design patents this would interfere with. There's a small chance of some internal mechanical or light guide related patents, but that would be pretty unlikely. Even more unlikely would be BlackBerry having anyone around still that would even know what to look for.
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If it gains any traction, you'd be able to get a fairly decent Temu version in about 6 months from now for $30.
There were cases available with a slide out keyboard for the iPhone 6, it looks like they cost ~$14