• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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    532 years ago

    Anyway, I’d rather have such keyboard in landscape. Although it would be better if it was a slide-out keyboard, I wouldn’t mind a thick phone. Maybe you could then even add USB-A, HDMI, and a headphone jack to it.

      • pre
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        42 years ago

        @Norgur@kbin.social hehe.

        A stylus holder too, an extra battery of course, too to handle the extra load.

        No phone has been better than the n900. But a case that had the keys and extra power and maybe a secondary status screen on the back, and didn’t look like a bananna themed children’s toy. Could be nice.

        @ayla@beehaw.org @user224@lemmy.sdf.org

    • lemmyvore
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      192 years ago

      You can make it a little thicker and have USB-B so you can connect printers directly. Or a little thicker yet and keep a bicycle in there.

  • Chozo
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    382 years ago

    What does this have to do with “creators”, though?

    • @anothermember@beehaw.org
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      362 years ago

      I was mildly interested until I saw “designed for creators”. Seems like a meaningless marketing term that gets added to everything these days.

    • HeartyBeast
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      32 years ago

      “Creator” in this case presumably means people who want to type lots of stuff

    • Blake (he/him)
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      12 years ago

      More screen real estate compared to a virtual keyboard taking up ~30% of it

      • Chozo
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        32 years ago

        I mean sure, but how often is the virtual keyboard pulled up in any “creative” app? It always auto-hides if you’re doing anything other than interacting with a text field.

        • Blake (he/him)
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          22 years ago

          I recommend watching the video linked in the article. They mention live streaming, working in a spreadsheet, and long text messages where you have to scroll to read everything

          Plus this isn’t just a hardware product, the keyboard shortcuts would be pretty handy for any power user. Sounds like they’ll be rolling out more software for it and have more products in the works

  • @AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca
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    312 years ago

    These existed shortly after the iPhone came out under the presumption people would miss the physical keys from blackberries. They didn’t sell well back then I don’t think they will now.

      • @ExLisper@linux.community
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        2 years ago

        I still don’t understand why PDAs are no longer a thing. Make a phone a bit thicker, add ports, thumb keyboard… I remember being able to SSH to servers from my Zaurus and actually do things using the hardware keyboard. Or SSH to my n900 and install packages there. With android I just lost the interest. It doesn’t feel like a personal computer anymore.

    • SuiXi3D
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      52 years ago

      Probably because they were all cheap crap and not made up to the standards of the device they connected to.

    • Big P
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      12 years ago

      I had one for my iPhone 4, it was cool but not hugely practical

  • @Wahots@pawb.social
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    102 years ago

    I like the idea, but I agree with others; a slide out landscape keyboard would be more convenient.

    • @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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      52 years ago

      Fuck, I miss my Motorola Milestone (Motorola Droid). Best phone ever. I blame the world for not supporting slide out landscape keyboard phones more.

      • @grahamja@reddthat.com
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        32 years ago

        That was an incredible phone, it even had a little d-pad so your could tab one character around at a time when texting. Physical keyboards felt so good, but it made the phone a lot thicker.

  • garrett
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    72 years ago

    Fun device but I feel like we’ve most past the longing for physical keyboards.

    • There are literally 10’s of us that still desire a physical keyboard on a phone.

      The blackberry keytwo was the best phone I have ever owned but it is too outdated now to carry on using :(

    • L3ft_F13ld!
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      92 years ago

      I’d love to get a physical keyboard again. I’d happily give up some screen size for it too. Phones have gotten much too big.

      A smaller screen would limit the phone, though. Would probably become a phone calls and texting only device since most apps wouldn’t know what to do with the small screen and weird aspect ratio.

      • @Goopadrew@beehaw.org
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        52 years ago

        Ooh, would be an interesting concept to have a folding phone with a physical keyboard+smaller screen for the outer display, as opposed to making the outer screen a normally-sized phone screen

        • L3ft_F13ld!
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          32 years ago

          Sure, that wouldn’t be a bad thing to try. Probably a lot of interesting ways to go about it. Good luck getting a company to try something cool, though.

    • @ExLisper@linux.community
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      72 years ago

      Yep, corporations denied us this feature long enough that most of us gave up and stopped trying. Sometimes I wish I was just another mindless consumer loving everything that’s new and shiny instead of liking actually useful things…

    • @DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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      32 years ago

      Eh, I dunno.

      I was pondering using the new Journal app on my iPhone, but would far prefer to type with a physical keyboard, so haven’t gotten around to it. Not saying that this particular board would change my mind, of course, but ultimately I do vastly prefer the tactile feel of a real board.

      Hell, I’m typing this on my iPad using Universal Control from my Mac.

  • joewilliams007
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    52 years ago

    Although this is kinda trash, Micheal Fisher is a beast in video production 😄. So classy.

  • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    22 years ago

    That is such a good idea:

    • physical keyboard
    • sold as an add-on

    The amount of value for the hassle is very high with this idea. Great invention.

  • @BDC@beehaw.org
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    22 years ago

    If they made one for my iPhone 13 I might try it. We’ll see if they are still around when it’s time for me to buy a new phone.