I had the original Motorola Droid and Droid 3, along with a couple BlackBerrys for work. Sometimes I still miss those keyboards, although I’m probably faster with swiping keyboards now.
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Droid Pro - The best not Blackberry I had.
Also HTC Touch Pro 2 - best Windows Phone with a slideout keyboard I ever had.
Tried all the rest, but everyone made keyboards that took 100 lbs of pressure to press the buttons.
Also RIP Palm Pre, that was a good device, other than the keyboard stiffness.
I had something a lot like that Samsung on the right at one point
I remember my last one. I cooked it with high frequency tig welding by mistake and it would do crazy things. Fun times.
Damn I miss my LG Neon. Such a simple time back then. If I could get that same phone with an updated OS for better web browsing and app usage I would buy it in a heartbeat. Having actual buttons and being able to text under the table or in my hoodie pocket was beautiful.
These were great when the other option was resistive touch screens. Can't say I see myself buying a phone with a keyboard nowadays with swipe texting being so good
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Nothing like my sweet sweet Moto q9m. Perfect size and the curve on the keyboard was just right. A stunning little Windows phone.
Few years ago I've heard about tech that allows to have bumps on a screen to indicate Keys, where is it now?
Any phone with a Bluetooth connection can easily take as fancy a keyboard as you feel like using with it.
This is my phone keyboard
I had the HTC Touch Pro 2 before I switched to the iPhone. What a piece of junk that was.
Lol I'm gonna get bashed for this, but y'all sound like boomers who have only ever used a smartphone on occasion. Or like people did back in the early 2010s before touchscreen phones got good.
You're all gonna sit there and tell me with a straight face those tiny ass buttons allow you to type faster than on a touchscreen smartphone? Maybe you're more accurate but there's no way you're faster, even then I'd still doubt the accuracy part because of the extremely small buttons placed so closely together.
Smartphone typers can write over a hundred words per minute and much much more with other keyboard input entry methods like swipe/swype.
I bet if we were to ask Gen Z or Gen Alpha to try those phones with keyboards they'd probably say they were trash and ask how we used them. Once you get used to using a touchscreen to type it really is better. I'm assuming most of y'all are light phone users that only use their phone for the occasional texting and app usage, not power users.
You're getting downvotes for your tone, but you're mostly right. My thumbs used to hurt from texting too much when I had a physical keyboard. Now I use swype and my single thumb is doing totally fine.
I didn't type faster. But the experience of pressing on physical keys was more satisfying somehow. Like with computers, how some people swear by mechanical keyboards from the feeling alone, even though those same people can type fast on regular keyboard too.