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5G BlackBerry phone with Android and a physical keyboard will arrive in 2021

4 点作者 initself超过 4 年前

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_zzaw超过 4 年前
Honest question: how do people feel about physical keyboards on phones these days? I&#x27;m not going to knock this until I know more about it, but I would be a little surprised if there are a lot of folks who, after having gotten used to a standard onscreen keyboard, still prefer punching physical buttons.<p>I have a BlackBerry, albeit an ancient one—8830 World Edition—and I actually turned it on the other day. Typing on it really was weird—it felt like it required a lot of physical effort to use. (And I remember thinking that BlackBerries had excellent keyboards, as opposed to the Treo; I had one of those, too, and it felt like typing on pencil erasers.)<p>I&#x27;m not trying to sound condescending, but a physical keyboard on a phone feels sort of like training wheels to me; something that an old-school phone person might assume is more usable than the tiny buttons of an onscreen keyboard. But then you realize how accurate the key-sensing on screen keyboards actually is, and how much less energy it takes to tap than press.<p>I have no idea, but I do know that when I used my old BlackBerry the other day, it felt uncomfortably like using a mechanical typewriter. I&#x27;ll be curious to see how this goes.
olvy0超过 4 年前
There&#x27;s also the Fxtec Pro phone [0], which doesn&#x27;t look too bad from the spec and the reviews. If I were on the lookout for a new phone I&#x27;d seriously consider it.<p>For some reason I never get along with screen keyboards, even after 8 years or so. I press the wrong key every 5 characters or so, and the auto correct is very seldom right.<p>I&#x27;ve tried many keyboards, currently I&#x27;ve settled on google keyboard app. I&#x27;m very unhappy with its accuracy, but it&#x27;s slightly better than the alternatives.<p>I should add I&#x27;m not a native English speaker, most of my phone interaction is in my native language, but when I do write English google&#x27;s keyboard app&#x27;s autocorrect seems to be much more intelligent. Still, the need to constantly look at it is tiring.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m a relatively fast typist since an early age, and used to the feel of physical keys and placing my fingers just so, so I&#x27;m more annoyed with the inaccuracy of phone keyboards compared to other people, I don&#x27;t know. I also tend to be very verbose in writing, compared to other people I know.<p>So even after 9 years I haven&#x27;t touched it, I find myself still missing my old Nokia phone every time I try to write a detailed message on my new Android phone...<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fxtec.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fxtec.com&#x2F;</a>
initself超过 4 年前
Keyboard that represents &quot;brand values&quot; and &quot;angling the device to enterprise customers&quot; sounds like OnwardMobility gets what it is all about.