When we will get phones like picture related again?
When we will get phones like picture related again?
Wyatt Thompson
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James Cook
Its was the peak of portable technology design
Eli Cruz
Never because landscape orientation is retarded.
Jace Lewis
Never because that design is inheritly weak and expensive.
The hinges and ribbon cables always break and are retardedly expensive to manufacturer due to extra parts and labour to assemble, compared to single touch screen phones.
Sebastian Lopez
Sliders? Hopefully never. The keys were way too tiny for my liking.
Robert Sanchez
>inheritly weak
As if phone makers care about quality
>expensive
thats the real reason
Mason Phillips
>The keys were way too tiny for my liking
How is that any different from in-screen keyboard?
At least with physical keyboard you have physical feedback, plus it doesn't take space away from the screen.
Daniel Lee
Hopefully never.
The second touch screens became accurate they were RIP hard. Mini physical keyboards are a huge waste of space and hard as fuck to use.
Gavin Thompson
Never. One of the best phones I’ve had is the Nokia E71. The middle button was like a track pad. Only complaint was the 2.5mm audio jack.
Julian Edwards
You mean the Nokia N900 and how relatively easy it is to install an actual full featured Linux distro or Android?
Yeah this phone is based from anywhere you look at it, need more phones with full root access and completely unlocked boot loader.
Jackson Peterson
When we will get phones like picture related again?
Kevin Brown
forgot pic
Brody Russell
never because amerifats won't buy it because they want big screens and muh no bezel
Oliver Bennett
>full featured Linux distro
By full featured, you mean x86, right?
Cooper Taylor
Luis Phillips
You mean slider phones? Yeah physical keyboards are great, i had picture related and it was great for texting.
Jaxson Ortiz
Holy shit, you're retarded. Linux is not Windows, and most Linux software can be trivially recompiled for ARM.
Evan Kelly
Debian and Ubuntu has lots of packages for ARM. Sure you can't run Windows software over WINE, but at that point you should be using something like the GPD Win
James Perry
and the award for the most retarded reply goes to....
Xavier Sanders
Who knows? Maybe it'll come around as a trend again.
They're objectively better than simple slate designs.
I'm sticking with the Passport until then.
Oliver Rogers
You carry a mouse daily?
Benjamin Martin
Never know when you need to point out something wrong.
Dylan Ramirez
Moto x keyboard slider mod should be available any damned time now actually.
So ya know you can get one soon. I damned well am.
Easton Richardson
>user
Cameron Perry
>Released in 2009
Grayson Ward
watched a video on that phone and popped a stiffy
Brandon Parker
Snapped so many of thes fuckers in half back in the day
William Lopez
Also AIM to TXT was GOAT
Caleb Hernandez
Yet all my sliders were rock solid.
Ryan Allen
Fuck yes
Michael Young
Adrian Cook
> because I have fat fingers I want everyone to suffer
Dont be so selfish, user. N900 is still the best phone I have had considering the time it came out
Noah Reyes
i gave up hope and purchased the mod for the moto z phones a ridiculously high price off ebay. after about 3-4 weeks all i can say is "never".
the mod is pretty much broken. one of the holders between the keypad and the back of the mod that attaches to the phone has 2 missing screws that are super tiny so now i have to be careful with it. i dont know why they added that tilt gimmick because all it did was add more room for shit to go wrong.
the body of the keyboard is way thinner than the phone so it feels awkward. not only that but the plastic feels flimsy and the edges of the keypad are somewhat sharp.
actual typing can be comfortable once you get used to the key layout.
in their defense, this is the "light" model so its thinner. maybe the "standard" will be different? i sure hope they reinforce the area that attaches the keypad to the spring system and back of the phone.
to answer OPs question, never. everyone will follow the iphone trends.
photo taken with shitty droid 4 (crashed twice trying to get a photo) that i replaced for the moto z3.
Landon Gonzalez
i want to go back, but those memories late into it's life prevents me from doing so
Cooper Sanders
>tfw can't respond to automated prompts with touch tone on old pulse rotary phone
I just wanted to pay my bills by phone at my grandparent's house.
Austin Butler
This. Neo900 must come.
Leo Murphy
>hard as fuck to use.
For plebs. I was at the height till touchscreens flooded the market.
Aiden Taylor
And we have a winner
Daniel Kelly
>Snapped so many of thes fuckers in half back in the day
You sad mofo.
Camden Butler
Brandon Butler
my wife still uses her blackberry priv because no one will make slider phones. I wish motorola would make one for their moto mod shits
Zachary Barnes
NEVER BECAUSE AMERICANS WERE TOO RETARDED TO USE SYMBIAN
Evan Jackson
Fuck off boomer
Jeremiah Adams
Because I'm not a normalfag who is not aware that swipe exists.
Michael Campbell
I wish I still had tis pic related one.
It had its limits, but with a Cyanogen10 custom ROM it ran way better than the stock OS and typing shit on it was as smooth as butter. The touchscreen could have been a bit bigger tho, by placing the buttons not on front, but overall this was a great companion to me.
Gavin Reed
>arm
so its useless, right?
yeah, kinda thought so.
Ayden White
>gOtTa InCluDe ANIME in my picture SOMEHOW.
jesus christ, a little more subtle next time maybe
Matthew Lewis
Go be retarded somewhere else. ARM systems run ELF binaries just fine.
Robert Kelly
autism speaks, unfortunately.
risc is the future
Owen Morales
Has nobody heard about the Gemini PDA? Practically the only smartphone in 2018 with a keyboard that isn't a Blueberry for people with tiny fingers... or any phone keyboard at all.
Dylan Diaz
I'll be a bit more excited when its GPU gets supported by the Panfrost open source driver.
Hunter Myers
>mfw Cyanogenmod no longer exists
Lucas Miller
Are you this user? Regretting your purchase?
Brandon Butler
At least the Android developer scene still exists as a whole. I really like the modding community on XDA, it has shown me some nice things and provided me with some very good ROMs over the years. Their section for Android TV boxes holds some treasures too, not to speak of the whole technical reviews and tests. And I know about the risks of those, but in the end, isn't using a phone a risk in the first place?
t. not a shill, just a fan
Carter Green
>buy unfinished, broken prototype of something
>wonder why its shit
Eli Turner
> tfw he can't whistle DTMF tones
> It's like you're not even trying Cap'n Crunch
DTMF tones are passed via audio you can turn up the volume on your phone put the speaker near the rotary phone's mic and press the appropriate key on your phone.
Or be a retard and buy an "app"
Hunter Cook
I get the feeling keyboards will eventually come back into style (or at the very least be more relevant) when people get bored with current phone designs, but it will probably be awhile.
I really, really wish there were more options for modern keyboard phones outside fucking Blackberry. It feels like it died out way too early with the rise of smartphones.
Hunter Green
we already got them
Jaxson Bailey
N900 is still the best phone I ever owned
Easton Edwards
Unfortunately I can't see them ever coming back there is no content generation other than a phone and 10 words most people can and will make do with a touch screen for that
People are starting to forgo desktops and even laptops in lieu of a phone or tablet if there is little need to type why would they need a keyboard
Jaxon Hall
yes.
not entirely. i like typing with the keyboard but i disagree with some design choices. im still waiting for the full product as thats supposed to have a battery and would help with the awkward holding since itd make the keyboard part thicker. the moto z3 itself also makes a little sad. no 3.5mm jack, locked down device by verizon, cant hotspot, no root.
i never had high expectations which is why i didnt back the project. from the very beginning i knew itd be low quality but i needed a new phone. the droid 4 wasnt cutting it anymore.
with that said if you see the blogs on indiegogo youll see its pretty much finished at this point. the delays are mostly because motorola support sucks and wouldnt give the green light on the projects full version then delays on part production.
Eli Robinson
heres your phone bro
Josiah Gray
I just want pic related but thinner, and maybe a few design touch ups/change keyboard
Coolest phone ever made
Ayden Hughes
Put $550 down as 40% payment on a Neo900 from Openphoenux. It's the most open source phone there is, or will be if they ever fucking finish it. Even the cell modem, the most closed down part of a modern phone, is partly open because most of it's documentation has been "leaked" and there is a small group of people working on reverse engineering open source firmware for it. Also the modem can be turned off and isn't integrated on the CPU die with direct access to the memory like most phones have. In most phones, the modem practically has it's own secret OS that almost definitely has back doors in it.
Josiah Wilson
What buy an app?
ToneDef is free.
Kayden Parker
I want phones to have a 900mhz FHSS simplex radio like many of the Nextels had.
Carson Clark
>limited by dictionary
It sure its an improvement, when you compare it with total shit touchscreen keyboards.
Camden Perry
This
Blake Lewis
>if there is little need to type
Fucking normal fags
Christopher Morales
god damn it. are you that fucking """angry birds cpu""" faggot again
Julian Phillips
After apple innovators decide that smartphones need a real keyboard, that will only cost 499$ :3
Leo Baker
E72 has 3*5
Ethan Torres
why did you pay 1000 dollars for that