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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by dvdkon on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:49PM (#20831231)
"Soft" keyboards on a touchscreen have a number of disadvantages, the biggest for me is that they take up a large part of the screen. I could use the terminal or edit source code just fine on my phone's screen, but only if at least 40% of it wasn't taken up by a keyboard. Secondly, I think you're underestimating the number of "weird" sequences of characters programmers and terminal users regularly type.

Sure, a proper keyboard and a table is always better, but there are often situations where such a comfort isn't available.

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by olivil on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:16PM (#20832168)
But a hardware keyboard takes up a lot of potential screen space, even when it's not in use.
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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by dvdkon on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:53PM (#20832482)
This doesn't apply to devices which have slide-out keyboards or a clamshell design. The linked design is more "Blackberry-style" as far as I can tell, but those are not the devices I primarily had in mind.
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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:18PM (#20833222)
There's also stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard
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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday August 29, 2019 @07:23PM (#20834654)
Those are sweet, but suffer from many of the issues of touchscreen keyboards (no tactile feedback, no ability to feel the keys blindly).

EDIT: But to be clear, they are great at having a full-size keyboard that takes up no screen space. Tradeoffs.

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by Multicomp on Thursday August 29, 2019 @09:31PM (#20835258)
This is why I pre ordered the Fxtec Pro1, a landscape slider android phone with microsd card and FM radio. Oh, and yes it does have the increasingly mythical headphone jack.
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