Does anyone remember Ericsson A1018 external keyboard attachments?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNdreBTNybM
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#502Apple have kinda opened a niche for such products through recent “improvements” to autocorrect which make it highly unreliable.
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#503I really want a programmer-friendly physical keyboard for Android phones, which is suitable to holding (not needing resting on a table). I've got a Pixel 3 right now, but I'd be willing to change phones if one worked very well with a physical keyboard. Or maybe I just have to buy one of those GPD Win 4 devices, or the Ayaneo Slide...
I've tried all kinds of portable physical keyboards but for programming on android you can't beat Hackers Keyboard https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard I've got a fork working with Android 14
Yeah, I know. I was thinking of linking to an image of Hacker's Keyboard and saying "with this layout," lol.
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My question is, why can't we use our phones as a fully dockable PC? For years, all I've wanted was a phone with computer specs that I can plug into a dock and use with a fully functional desktop operating system. Usually what ends up happening is you just have the same clumsy phone but on a giant monitor. The 15 promax is more than capable of doing this, but iOS is the limitation from a usability standpoint. Can't ev…
Android's had a number of attempts at that, the biggest one being Samsung DeX, but it's just not a mass market product, like mini cellphones or unsmart TVs.
My Fairphone FP4 works with a HP USB C laptop docking station. The screen and the keyboard work.
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#505i need this for a 12 mini
extending the already small phone would basically bring it in line with larger phones in its class, but with a keyboard
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#506There will come a day (with the advent of AI speech recognition) where keyboards will be obsolete.
That day is sooner than we think.
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#507For 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…
When Omegle shut down I looked here for when it was launched. All the replies to its first post, ~14 years ago, were negative. For the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539753
In Omegle's case, was the criticism wrong? It was un-monetizable and ended under thumb of lawsuits.
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#508There will come a day (with the advent of AI speech recognition) where keyboards will be obsolete. That day is sooner than we think.
I dread that day. It's annoying enough listening to people's phone conversations; in my experience, listening to people using speech to operate a UI is a higher level of annoyance (because the person's speech tends to start and stop abruptly because the cognitive demands of operating a UI are higher than that of having a conversation with a person).
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#509I bet it's big enough that it could also contain an SD card reader, which could be really useful
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I don’t believe you. There’s no way you type faster with up to three taps needed per letter. What a disgusting monstrosity those things were.
Lookup a stenographer’s keyboard. There is a learning curve but a chorded keyboard can exceed typical typing speeds. I imagine a T9 isn’t too different in this regard.
I use one. I don't think that it would be a good substitute for this use case. You can try and do steno on your phone with Dotterel but it's not a good experience - you're better off using a swiping keyboard. I've not used a T9 system in my life, but I can imagine that it's a system that would let you input anything just typing with your thumbs. To have a good time doing steno, you have to exercise all of your fingers on both your hands. That's not quite so nice on your phone.