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I rocked a Samsung Alias 2 for 4 years before I got an iPhone 5. The e-ink keyboard was awesome how it changed when you flipped the screen open to portrait or landscape.

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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 80 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Bring back sliders with full keyboards

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being back T9. I could text with it in my pocket.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What duh the ib huwdb I j texted from my pitcher just fine.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you didn't text with a rotary phone you were a fucking noob: There, I said it.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 4 points 1 year ago

T9 would work on a rotary phone input. You would save a lot of of time. It would still take a lot of time.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really want one, I hate virtual keyboards so much. There's the f(x)tec phones but their keyboards come out in landscape mode and I'd really rather have one where it's portrait like the Palm Pre

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 2 points 1 year ago

I got one of them tiny foldable bluetooth keyboards for anything longer than replies. Brings it with me everywhere, it's super handy.

Yet not as handy as a slide out keyboard.

Is f(x)tec actually a thing? Like have they actually started shipping phones to customers?

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never saw one where the keys were big enough that I didn't mash everything around the target key with the size of my fingers, and I really don't have big hands or anything.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

The size of the keys are not really the issue, the size of the spacing around them is.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The BlackBerry Curve has my favorite keyboard, and I DO have big hands!

[–] dasusernem@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I had an HTC Tilt back when the first iPhone was released. Aside from that phone running windows mobile (holy Christ, what a mess that was), I loved it so much. But then I finally joined the cult at the 3GS.

or BlackBerry key approach

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Motorola DROID 4 was my dream phone. Alas, it was never released down here, so I could never buy one, even used.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I miss those... ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

my first smart phone was a Motorola Droid that had a physical keyboard. Cameras have come a long way.