> with attachable fan and all

Oh my god you're not kidding.

All passively cooled thin highend phones can't run highly loaded games longer, due to GPU makes massive heat, so actually fan is practical for such use case.

Wouldn't a water cooled phone be much more awesome?

"Water cooling" is just a heat transfer method, so you need water, pump and external fan or large heat sink. I believe just a fan without water is enough unless you're LTT.

Possibly you mention about some manufacturer that advertises vapor chamber as "water cooling". I don't like their advertisement because it's just a improved heat pipe.

Wow, you know what water cooling is. The next step is that you need to read up on building gaming rigs and understanding that setting up water cooling for cell phone is just the right level of absurdity.

I mean it is literally the "Republic of Gamers" phone

> plenty of great niche hardware keyboard phones

Plenty? In what way? There seems to be one company that makes a keyboard phone with outdated CPUs and other hardware, to make ends meet and be able to produce such a phone economically.

I would not say plenty, but there are at least three companies (Fxtec, Planet Computers, BlackBerry/OnwardMobility):

https://www.fxtec.com/pro1x

https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator

https://www.techradar.com/news/new-blackberry-5g-phone-with-...

Whoa. Thank you SO MUCH!

I'd completely despaired of ever finding a modern smartphone with a full physical keyboard on it. It's been 8 years since I had one.

Now to do some research and find a US carrier that it'll work with.

I wonder if you could even code on that...

Interestingly enough, that was sort of one of the things I occasionally used my WinMo6 HTC Tilt for JUST A LITTLE.

Back in 2007 there was a period where I was doing a lot of work on deployed standalone application servers at remote client sites, some of which had little to no internet connection.

We'd audit servers before I traveled and send me with the "right software patches", but it didn't always work out perfectly and tethering was pretty primitive back then.

I loved being able to call someone, have them check something out of sourcesafe, then throw it up on one of our servers, where I could SSH in from my phone, grab files, edit them, then shove them on my MicroSD card, pull that, shove it in a USB adapter and patch an install for a server with no internet connection.

SUPER hinky by today's standards, but it felt pretty amazing at the time.

Haha, same, when I got my very first Android phone (HTC Dream) with that hardware keyboard, I would sometimes ssh into servers and run commands. There was also a python app on play store that lets you write scripts and run locally. I still sometimes do but it's much hardware with software keyboard.