In World Without BlackBerry, Physical Keyboards on Phones Are Making a Comeback

No, for the 5th time, they're not.

I've noticed the keyboards on iOS and Android are getting taller and taller with extra buttons for things like password fill with no way to disable these features. I run a word guessing game(Redactle) and there is almost no room left for the actual game which really sucks!

I had a keypad phone for less than 15$ and it was really great and portable/small.

Sadly it died one day some months ago and recently I contacted some shops to find what went wrong with the phone and it looks like the battery had some issue.

But luckily, its battery is removable so I can just buy a new one. I am gonna bring it in a few days maybe (if I get the time) but should take less than 2$

The amount of features in the phones (calling+storage/music+audio+messaging ie sms) and all others make it worth it, the only thing it doesn't have is internet/app access but I really loved the phone.

For context: It's the kaechoda k100. Its keyboard is physical but it doesn't show the buttons and looks really cool irl. The buttons only show when you click on them.

I remember one of my friends literally shout one day that I had Iphone Mini and the whole class was looking at me but it actually felt really nice phone and definitely better than my dad's old shitass redmi 1 gb phone android which was so slow.

the k100 had 32mb ram iirc. its crazy how snappy it was compared to the almost two magntitude larger 1 gb android ram phone.

Dumbphones are amazing given how cheap they are.

I think that personally a cool-looking dumb phone can/should actually-be given to kids for calling/safety-concerns without giving them the beast of phones if possible in situations but obv it depends on situation.

Although one of the things I wanted with the dumb phone was a Linux handheld.

I found this website just now https://mecha.so/comet#hardware so it would be interesting to see how the idea of linux handhelds pan out.

Dumb phone + Linux handheld seems good seperation of concern personally to me given how lightweight Dumb phones are. I have had them sometimes be lost in my pocket :)

Edit: But point be said that obviously they are very restricted for messaging purposes at times but I had optimized my typing speed for it to be like 1 word per second maybe 2 so for some basic things and even talking to some of my friends sometimes it was possible.

I was the only reason people used SMS sometimes in the world where mostly its whatsapp during my time with the dumb-phone.

I miss the days of physical keyboards. I spend most of my time correcting mistakes on these awful screen boards.

with Google's long-time push for adaptivity across candy-bar phones, foldables, tablets of varying sizes, desktops, and recently XR, I wonder how well modern apps will handle this new generation of keyboard phones :)

I never enjoyed the Blackberry-style keyboards, but I had an HTC Desire Z with a full slideout keyboard that I absolutely loved.

What the hell is wrong with that site? It immediately starts playing audio and there’s no apparent way to stop it.