What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years

  • @WhoRoger
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    211 year ago

    I’ll trade the large phone display for a physical keyboard.

    • Phish
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      31 year ago

      I remember being one of the many who thought touchscreens wouldn’t catch on because people loved physical keyboards too much. Of course, touchscreens weren’t quite what they are today. Haptic feedback and multi-touch were game changers.

      • @WhoRoger
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        21 year ago

        The bizarre part is how popular the keypad phones like the BlackBerry or Nokia 9000 series were, or the multitude of Windows Mobile, Psion and other devices. As soon as iPhone came out, suddenly nobody wanted keypads anymore. People are just chasing after the latest shining trends.

        • Phish
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          11 year ago

          I was so stubborn haha. Blackberry had a phone where the touchscreen still clicked like a button when you pressed it and I thought that was the compromise everyone wanted. I was way off.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      You don’t have to. The Droid 3 had a large display and an excellent slide-out keyboard the same size as the display. Why no other phone manufacturers did this, I cannot fathom. Typing on a screen is supremely annoying.

      • @WhoRoger
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        21 year ago

        There were a few that did that, I used to have a Sony Xperia Mini Pro. It probably is the best solution, but I can understand not willing to do such a mechanism. A keyboard itself bolted right in the body is trivial however, compared to all the other design shenanigans manufacturers have to do.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      You can consider using a USB keyboard or Bluetooth keyboard with your phone. Can’t really use them on-the-go though, so it is quite limiting, but it does allow a keyboard experience on a phone. This works on Android; not sure if it works with iPhone.

      • @WhoRoger
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        51 year ago

        I used to have a bunch of keyboards but it’s not a workable solution. If I have such a surface or environment as to use one, might as well just use a laptop or something.

        My old qwerty keypad phones worked so well.

          • @WhoRoger
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            21 year ago

            That just looks like a normal wireless keyboard, not something you can use while standing in a bus tho.

              • @WhoRoger
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                11 year ago

                Still the same problem. There are lots of small wireless keyboards, you can probably get one like that for $10 (you could 10 years ago). Still can’t use it in a pinch without a decent surface.

                A had a few keyboards…

                Compare to this, this or this which you just hold in the hand like a normal phone.

                  • @WhoRoger
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                    11 year ago

                    Yes, it looks truly crap tho. I hear there’s some issue regarding BlackBerry patents, but a 3-row keyboard is pretty worthless. Combined with all its other issues, it wasn’t enough even for me to get interested.

                    Speaking of which, fuck dead companies keeping patents.