I picked up a keyone for my personal device after my Nexus 5 bit the dust (it lasted over 5 years), and I'm really happy with it. I had used a few newer android flagship devices as work phones (pixel 3 most recently), but I really hated the huge screen size on everything. I was getting frequent hand cramps on the latest pixel, and one handed usage, even for light browsing was impossible for me (fwiw, I'm a 5'5" woman with hands to match). The smaller screen height of the KeyOne fits my needs perfectly, and having a physical keyboard again is just icing on the cake. Related, this is the first phone where I haven't cracked the screen within the first year (without a case, no less!). I've dropped it a ton on hard surfaces, but it seems that the keyboard cushions the fall, so that was an unexpected benefit.
People Keeping BlackBerry Alive
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#72I had a blackberry until last year. I love a physical keyboard. I know I'm the minority but I'll never be able to type as well on a screen with no tactile feedback as I can on a physical keyboard.
I don't think anyone prefers the screen keyboard over a real one. I use my phone mainly for consuming information, any typing can wait until I get to a real keyboard. Even when I had a Blackberry, typing was only marginally more tolerable.
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#73Wish windows phone was kept alive :(
I had an 8330 BB though dang ball would get dirty
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#74BlackBerrys been doing alot in the software space these days, i don't think they've been "keeping it alive" with these stock shenanigans
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#75I'm one of those guys, I still use a Q10 (OS10 family) as my daily driver. I felt in love with its ux e.g. the hub which acts both as notification center and timeline, full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) and an app permission system which allowed you choose which one should be granted to the app (again, back in 2013! Android had to wait years before this was implemented) Apps are scarce, many don't work any…
> full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) Only two years behind the N9.
The N9 was only two years behind the Palm Pre!
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#76“What can I say—I just love the keyboard,” Ron says. “I feel like an idiot when I tap a glass screen.” You look like an idiot when you take out a bb though.
Ouch, harsh. I prefer to think it just makes me look unconventional.
This reminds me of an article I read about a phenomenon of zoomers being bullied for using androids instead of iPhones. Seems silly to judge anyone by their phone to me, but you know - middle schoolers are mean.
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#77Reminds me of good old time (2010-2011), when my 1st job was doing BlackBerry development.
I wonder if BlackBerry Messenger is still functional?
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
> full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) Only two years behind the N9.
The N9 was only two years behind the Palm Pre!
Man WebOS was ahead of its time. Palm just couldnt put out a piece of hardware that wasnt riddled with defects.
I guess it lives on in LG TVs but for the year or so before that palm pre broke it was great.
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#79In the 10-12 years since I last had a Blackberry, no phone that I've had has come close to it in terms of an email device. Current phones do a lot of things much better (apps, games app stores etc), but not email, and voice calls have only recently started to show some advantages (Voice over LTE/Voice over WiFi/HD Calls etc).
AFAICT from the Internets, BB10 OS actually supports VoLTE, but there's no way to manually enable it. Given the support status of the devices no carrier will provision VoLTE on it for you these days either, so we're out of luck.
That brings me back. I worked on it way back when. The IMS stack works over WiFi too; it could probably work with any generic SIP provider and hook into the native phone app.
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#80I have used a lot of smartphones with keyboards in the last 20 years or so. I think it started with a Palm Treo 600[0] and on top of my head I've used plenty of others (in not the right order): HTC Blue Angel[1], Sierra Wireless Voq[2], Nokia Communicator E90[3], Motorola Milestone[4], Motorola Droid 4[5] (where I had to solder the SIM-Card into the phone to use it in Europe), Nokia E71[6] Nokia E75[7], Nokia N900[8] (running Debian on some point), BlackBerry Curve[9], BlackBerry Bold[10], BlackBerry Q5[11], HTC Dream[12] and I probably even forgot some.
I really loved the latest Nokia pones with Symbian S60 as long as it worked. Working browser (Opera Mini), GPS navigation, Emails, Calendar and Contact syncing (via ActiveX I think) and everything with a week long stand-by time.
I would love a recent Android phone with a small form factor, full QWERTZ keyboard (preferabbaly slide-out) and decent camera. But I think the BlackBerry Key2 is the most recent smartphone with a physical keyboard and unfortunately it doesn't get any software updates. Right now I just hate typing on my phone and most of the time I wait until I am at a computer before I respond to any texts or mails I get on my phone.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_600
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Blue_Angel
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Wireless_Voq
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E90_Communicator
4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid
5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_4
6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E71
7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E75
8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Curve
10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Bold