I don't know if this will succeed or not, there might be market for it. As a developer what I'm still looking for is a top notch quality small foldable keyboard that I can use with Termux if I feel to throw some code and don't have a laptop with me. I have literally looked everywhere on Amazon and Ebay only to find cheap chinese foldable junks that definitely won't last a week.
Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
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#452My favourite phone was my Blackberry Passport. So good.
Bring. Back. Keyboards.
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#454I wonder if you could do a split keyboard and have it hanging off the sides like little winglets to get around the bending moment issues. Of course I have no idea what it would actually feel like to type on something like that, and it'd look weird as hell and make the phone oddly wide, but can't help but be curious about it.
You have my permission to steal this idea if anybody wants to hive that a shot. ;]
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#455Now I can enjoy Palm Pixi on my iPhone, loved it.
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#456For the creator of this product (and to any other creators launching soon): don't listen to the keyboard jockeys saying it will fail. We (commenters here) are essentially NPCs in your world. We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers, maybe with nothing better to do. And although we sound confident, we really don't know if it'll fail, or take off, or pivot…
> We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers... Speak for yourself. I just type "n" into the browser.
RSS for the win! Though, I need to check it in the browser because sometimes it misses things.
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#458Blackberry 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…
Keep in mind that the Blackberry existed in a different era where technology was designed to help and empower the user instead of exploiting them and wasting their time. It was a tool rather than an advertising billboard and/or slot machine.
A lot of the problems that make the use-cases you mention more difficult/annoying on modern phones are someone's business model and have little to do with actual form-factors or lack of physical keyboards. E-mails/texts/etc can be made more efficient on today's devices - it's just that it's more profitable not to.
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#459Earlier quoted context omitted.
Brings back fond memories of htc phones of yore
I still have a HTC One M8 in use for Android bug bounty hunting, used it as my daily driver until 2020 thanks for LineageOS folks never letting it die. Those things were horrible to repair (sadly how many phones aren't these days) but amazing little devices. I still miss having a phone that size to be able to use comfortably in one hand.
I had one of those too - quite liked it. I think I got that one after I stopped using a nexus 4. I had a temp samsung galaxy s9 for about 6 months that I hated and then ended up getting a pixel XL and have only really had pixel phones since (pixel XL, pixel 3a XL, pixel 6a).
I do miss the slidy keyboards on my old HTC phones - I think the first keyboard slider I got was an HTC Touch Pro still running windows mobile 6 because android wasn't a real thing then. That one required so much fiddling and rom stuff that LineageOS would have seemed like a beautiful dream.
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#460I wish this existed for my 13 mini!