Amazing work. I really do miss the OG Motorola Droids with the slide keyboard. Being able to ssh into a server with a nearly proper keyboard seems ahead of today.

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roughly 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The OG Droid remains one of my favorite devices I’ve ever owned - it’s the closest I’ve ever felt to being in the future, and the whole vibe was intensely cyberpunk.

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Den_VR 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

And you could swap battery packs whenever you wanted.

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abnercoimbre 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And what do you use these days?

	▲	roughly 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Nothing half as interesting - the same glass coated soap bar as everyone else.

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kjkjadksj 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don’t think kids today know how nice it was to have a proper keyboard or even t9. You could text blind from within your hoodie pocket in class.

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rainingmonkey 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The FxTec Pro1 is the only sliding keyboard phone of the last decade. I have one, it's not perfect but it is quite good, and better than all the other recent keyboard phones!

	▲	Brian_K_White 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I have one too (pro 1x actually) and it's complete dogshit. The screen has some kind of streaking/ghosting effect that's so bad it would be instant wareanty in any other phone, exept it's not the physical screen but something with how it's being driven. It's worse an dimmer brighness leves, and it's worse with some kinds of images / screen contents. The camera is simply garbage all around, pick any metric. Simple fucus, low light, motion, macro or fake macro by zoom, even simple outdoor daylight are barely ok compared to any other junk phone. Reception sucks. All the receptions, lte, wifi, bt. The open/close mechanism is the least convenient of any moving part I've ever used, the way there is no secure way to hold it to start the motion, then the loss of control during over-center snap. The laptop orientation with a camera bump so it wobbles on a table. The cpu is slower than my pixel 4. There is some stupidness with either the charging circuit or boot manager that if you ever simply allow the battery to die all the way, it can't start charging again and it's bricked unless you crack it open to access the cell itself. All utter dogshit. It has some checkboxes ticked like heaphone jack, removable sdcard, and of course the keyboard, but the thing sucks so bad to actually use that they don't matter. I'm probably forgetting yet more things because even though I paid $700 or whatever it was, then waited 2 or 3 years for it to ship, and even though my pixel 4a5g died right before it arrived so I actually needed it, I still only used it for a few weeks and spent another 1300 importing an xperia they don't sell or support in the US. (to get a current flagship phone that actually has a headphone jack and removable sd and dual sim, and is at least rootable and you can modify the system apps if not run Lineage) Oh yeah it's supposed to be an "xda phone" even with xda logo on the back, natively hackable... turns out no matter what os you want to run on it they all actually still have to use the same closed kernel. So you get to larp os control while still running under a kernel you can't replace.

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w-ll 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

T9 texting in my pocket on a Nokia 330 is our generations Morse code

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supportengineer 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can add a physical keyboard to an iPhone [0]

[0] https://www.clicks.tech

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giveita 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

You can also connect a Bluetooth keyboard to any phone.

	▲	dr-detroit 3 days ago \| parent [-]
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0xbadcafebee 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The product everybody wants in the form factor nobody wants

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mapontosevenths 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have one of these. It's neat and does work well. However, it makes the phone incredibly long and awkward to hold.

If it was sliding case it would be perfect, but as it's stands the phone doesn't fit in my pocket if I use it.

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OccamsMirror 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Gosh that looks as cool as it does awkward.

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ProAm 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would love another slider keyboard phone. I had so many in the past they were great.

	▲	kjkjadksj 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		You’d think the slider would be fragile but it was really robust. I’d use my old samsung with no case. No glass all plastic. Throw it across the room and it would be fine. If I ever found it in my parents house again I bet it’s still sliding fine. So satisfying like a fidget spinner.

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coffeecantcode 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I was too young when it came out to actually get one, but I remember that red glowing eye, I actually ripped an ad out of a magazine for the original droid and hung it in my room because it looked so badass.

I remember being disappointed to see Android go the cute cuddly green robot route instead of the sick red droid look but overall it was definitely more palatable for the masses.