Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone

Re:Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone by everdrive on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:59PM (#26558061)

>The thing that stops me is how good texting is on smartphones.

There used to be nice dumb phones with physical qwerty keyboards. They were wonderful for texting. It's a real shame they're not made anymore.

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Re:Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone by gman2093 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:35PM (#26558516)

I think there's still a market for slide-out keyboards on devices. They felt a bit janky in the 00's but I would still be first in line for the next android (or even ios, unlikely) device with such a feature. In high school I could send texts without having to look away from my counter-strike games.

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Re:Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone by puetzk on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:13PM (#26570957)

Unihertz still makes lots of the out-of-fashion form factors: https://www.unihertz.com/titan.html is a blackberry-esque android 9.0 device.

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Re:Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone by kelnos on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:21PM (#26562054)

It's been over 10 years, so my memory is almost certainly faulty, but I feel like I was nearly as fast with T9 predictive typing as I am with a swipe keyboard on a smartphone these days.

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