Let's all close our eyes and go back to 2009 so we can feel the thrill of typing our first email on the go.

I had two BlackBerry devices for work, right about the time they were going away. I’d heard the keyboard was good on earlier models but it seemed like the quality had gotten pretty cheap on the later phones. The BlackBerry 10 OS on my last phone was actually pretty good, and probably would’ve kept them in the market if they’d launched it 5 years earlier.

  • @NalivaiEnglish
    8•2 days ago

    You need to adjust your patterns to it, but when you do, oh boy is it convenient. I still can type on it blindly almost as quick as I do with full desktop keyboard, and I’m pretty quick with that

    • @ZeffSydeEnglish
      5•2 days ago

      It still blows my mind how fast my friends and I were able to text on feature phones with T9.

      I wonder if the suggestions ended up shaping our language patterns.

      • @NalivaiEnglish
        3•1 day ago

        I never used T9 because of that. It never knew what I want to say.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 days ago

      For reference I have large hands and throught the original huge Xbox “Duke” Controller was comfortable.