If this had a 4g module and possibility to install messaging apps, il dump my smartphone for this one without blinking.
My phone is basically a chat machine, but I miss so much those blackberry keyboards with physical keys…
Same as the Unihertz Titan. I ran with that for two years and it was decent, if underpowered.
The dream is all but dead for all fourteen and a half of us QWERTY phone enthusiasts I think. A surprising number went to the Samsung Galaxy Flip models, though having used this for two years or so, I wouldn’t recommend it either.
I would love a good qwerty phone. They’ve just been making consistently shitty ones. Just give me one in the end form factor as the BB Curve and we’re golden. I don’t want to have a massive slab of a phone just to have a keyboard.
So I actually bought the f(x)tech Pro^1x thinking that it was going to be great having a physical keyboard that slides out again. But I found that I rarely actually used it. Using it required that the screen be in landscape mode. I’m actually much happier just using a different touch keyboard layout. I use Thumb-Key specifically now. It took some time to retrain my brain but I quite enjoy it.
I bought a small Bluetooth keyboard like this a while back, but it was unusable due to key bounce. I think of trying this one but feel a bit burned by the previous:
If this had a 4g module and possibility to install messaging apps, il dump my smartphone for this one without blinking. My phone is basically a chat machine, but I miss so much those blackberry keyboards with physical keys…
There was a flip out physical keyboard phone called the fxtech pro 1 that was broadly liked by reviewers. I wonder if they ever made new models
E: nope
Same as the Unihertz Titan. I ran with that for two years and it was decent, if underpowered.
The dream is all but dead for all fourteen and a half of us QWERTY phone enthusiasts I think. A surprising number went to the Samsung Galaxy Flip models, though having used this for two years or so, I wouldn’t recommend it either.
Maybe one day…
Honestly I just want the pinephone to be better supported. Fuck android phones, I want a Linux palmtop like God intended.
I would love a good qwerty phone. They’ve just been making consistently shitty ones. Just give me one in the end form factor as the BB Curve and we’re golden. I don’t want to have a massive slab of a phone just to have a keyboard.
So I actually bought the f(x)tech Pro^1x thinking that it was going to be great having a physical keyboard that slides out again. But I found that I rarely actually used it. Using it required that the screen be in landscape mode. I’m actually much happier just using a different touch keyboard layout. I use Thumb-Key specifically now. It took some time to retrain my brain but I quite enjoy it.
You might like Unihertz Titan Pocket then
I’ve got one of these. Fantastic phone but the official OS was basically abandoned in terms of security updates. Need to check out custom ROMs.
Check out the Clicks keyboard if you have an iPhone.
I bought a small Bluetooth keyboard like this a while back, but it was unusable due to key bounce. I think of trying this one but feel a bit burned by the previous:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3601
Besides giving physical keys, it’s nice to free up screen space.
It says in the first paragraph that it does not have cellular connectivity.
There are several that do but you’re gonna pay up the nose for them, which is a bit ridiculous. Murida, lightphone, and Punkt, off the top of my head.