• Admiral Patrick
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      261 day ago

      Very low-end Android phone I dumbed down for a “30 day dumbphone challenge” (wanted to be able to re-purpose it / un-dumb it afterward). Ended up liking it so much, I stuck with it as my daily driver.

      • The Picard ManeuverOPM
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        171 day ago

        Reminds me of simpler times. Please reassure me that this isn’t how you’re browsing Lemmy though…

          • Captain Aggravated
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            211 day ago

            T9 worked a hell of a lot better than whatever the dunce we have now. I could do that shit one handed not looking and still get a coherent message out. Now paying FULL attention to what I’m doing I’ll still say thigns loke this.

              • Captain Aggravated
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                222 hours ago

                No they didn’t, they died doing this wrong. They wouldn’t make a normal Droid pattern landscape keyboard phone. They always had to make vertical out-the-end keyboards that were too narrow for humans to type on.

                • @[email protected]
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                  122 hours ago

                  I think the vertical keyboards would have been fine, but not switching to Android definitely lead to their downfall. They had too much arrogance as the smartphone leader and thought everyone would move their apps to their system even though they were the ones playing catchup.

                  • Captain Aggravated
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                    320 hours ago

                    Apple played the fashion statement crowd with the iPhone, continuing with their momentum from the iPod and iMac lines.

                    Google went for the tech savvy crowd with slide out keyboards and their suite of search-based services like Google Maps.

                    Blackberry and Palm also ran.

            • @Bacano
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              122 hours ago

              T9 took significantly longer to type with. I rocked a flip phone and enjoyed how engaging t9 was and the added time cost acted as a buffer so that I was less likely to use the device for frivolous stuff.

              • @[email protected]
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                621 hours ago

                Are you referring to having to press the 2 key three times in order to type the letter c? Usually T9 refers to the type of predictive text where you can press just 43556 and the phone predicts that you are typing hello

                • @Bacano
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                  12 hours ago

                  Yes I am lol, ty for the correction

              • Captain Aggravated
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                421 hours ago

                I was proficient at T9 in a way that I just haven’t been able to build with an onscreen keyboard. I endnup typingblikenthis because I can’t feel where the space bar is, and having to go back and fix everything is a pain. So you either end up incomprehensible or you turn on autocorrect and end up typing like ducking shot.

      • Optional
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        71 day ago

        Was this just buying an android flip phone and turning off all the data leaks? Or did you like re-flash some cool old Nokia or something with a custom rom type of deal?