I first looked at the keyboard case and thought that it was an insult to design of smartphones.
Then after about 30 seconds of watching my husband walk across the kitchen, I realized I’m not the target audience. He is. He mourned the passing of the physical home button and enjoys the tactile response of keys under his fingers. There is definitely a market for this product. I just went from “absolutely not” to “add to cart”. Way to go!
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#462This made me realise how much I'd love a physical keyboard on my phone. But not like this, this is too long and I don't think one will have a pleasant typing experience with this. I thought about this one for a few minutes, but I can't think of a good way to integrate a keyboard in a smartphone case, that will give you the experience of a blackberry or similar. The slide-out ones that you could use in horizontal orie…
Maybe you're luckier with English, but having recently tested a Uniherz Titan Pocket with physical keyboard, I just realized how my "past memories" left aside many details: typing accents and special symbols is slow; the absence of auto-complete on some long words is noticeable; the lack of emojis, the lack of a numeric keypad, having 3 or 4 modifier keys (to handle case, numbers, secondary functions, etc), all of th…
Okay, sure, typing accents with this type of keyboard may be worse than what we currently have on smartphones. But as I mostly write English this would not be a huge problem to me, otherwise in German there are only äöü/ÄÖÜ and ß/ẞ which don't get used that much, but have extra keys on the German keyboard layout (I don't expect this to be the case on a keyboard phone). Or can be replaced with ae,oe,ue and ss respectively.
Auto-complete/-correction is something that I don't use often, but this doesn't need to be missing from a keyboard phone, as this could be added on the software side.
Emojis are also something that I don't use often, but I get it that people may miss this, but this could also be added on the software side.
I have something similar to the BlackBerry Key2 in mind [0]. Haven't tried it myself, as I just learned about this through the comments. But the keyboard layout on the Key2 looks way better than the Unihertz, and the numerical keys are even in the same layout as a numeric keypad.
I may as well have too many rose-tinted memories of this era, but I don't think that the things you mentioned would be showstoppers for me, but I definitely can understand that these will be blockers for other people.
[0] https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/...
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#463Interesting concept, but landing page is giving lots of red flags. This is the entrypoint for all of your customers; it should be flawless. Especially when posting to a tech-centric site.
Body needs an 'overflow-x: hidden' rule, or a wrapping div to the rotated images. The main heading is off-center. And almost 18 MB of images on pageload is wild, see what https://pagespeed.web.dev says.
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#464Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, what types of goods do you get from those websites?
Great, cheap flashlights with so many options for customization (Convoy).
As well as Convoy, quite a few others also have official stores on AliExpress, like Sofirn, Lumintop, and Maxtoch.
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#465I'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…
Not an issue if all if you know how to touch type and aren't reliant on the labels for the keys. I'm typing this very message on a keyboard that has no labels at all, it's all muscle memory.
My native language uses cyrillic alphabet. I can also type on a regular keyboard without looking, however Cyrillic has quite a few more letters than English (33 vs 26 in English in my language), so the keyboard needs to allow that.
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#466Earlier quoted context omitted.
It'd be nice if the keyboard could flip backwards or slide away seamlessly.
So many folks insisted that touchscreen keyboards were a fad, and everyone would come back to keyboards sooner or later. I knew they were wrong, but I figured there would at least be a permanent market for some 5% minority who needed their chiclet keyboards. Wrong! Honestly surprised that a device took so long to come to market… I’m not making any predictions this time.
I was a long-time holdout for landscape-mode physical keyboards. I owned the original ADP1 from Google, which had a decent keyboard. I then upgraded to the Samsung Sidekick 4G, which had an even better keyboard. After fixing the keyboard map, I installed a cut-down Debian userspace on it for mobile software development.
After that, I looked at buying a Motorola Photon Q, but I would have had to hack it to get it on my preferred carrier. Even then it would have been expensive. I think my next actual phone was a Nexus 4, and I eventually got used to swiping.
For overall typing and mobile software development experience, I've instead settled on relatively small and handy Chromebooks. This is even easier now days, because installing the Linux development environment is a few clicks.
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#467What does "creator keyboard" means?
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#468I wish there was a phone flip case with a keyboard. I have seen tablet keyboards like this, but they are too big to use with a smartphone.
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#469It 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.
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#470Interesting concept, but landing page is giving lots of red flags. This is the entrypoint for all of your customers; it should be flawless. Especially when posting to a tech-centric site. Body needs an 'overflow-x: hidden' rule, or a wrapping div to the rotated images. The main heading is off-center. And almost 18 MB of images on pageload is wild, see what https://pagespeed.web.dev says.
Looks decent to me, apart from the 18MB.