I'm still salty that there's no FITALY[1] equivalent for iOS. MessageEase[2] has the same kind of idea but is nowhere near as easy to learn and use. I could whip through text at great(ish) speed on my Palms and PocketPCs using FITALY...

[1] https://textware.com/fitaly/ofkey.htm

[2] https://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php

While it’s nice (nowadays, many keyboards actually support "swiping), it still gets so much wrong, and accuracy plummets for bilingual writing (For myself, I decided that the annoyance of getting nothing right because I’m in the wrong language is better than introducing more subtle errors). For those reasons, I still wish there were phones with full physical keyboards.

You might like Clicks in that case: https://www.clicks.tech/

Even if I were to ever use an iPhone (which I won’t), it bulks up phones even more. I already find modern phones far too large. I was thinking more of something like the Nokia E71 [0] or for a bigger screen, a slide out like the HTC Desire Z / T-Mobile G2 [1], both phones I had before, and loved at the time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E71

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z

You might like the Unihertz Titan series. The Titan Pocket is very similar to the E71: https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket

Ohh, that looks awesome. A bit thick, but otherwise great! My current one is only 2 years old, but I’m saving this.

The Titan Slim is newer and thinner but has a > 4" screen on top of the keyboard, making it quite tall.

Yeah, I saw that. I’d like a combination of both :D But it will be at least another, maybe 2-3 years, so who knows what they’ll have out by then. I’d also have to check the support story.

I have had 2 Unihertz phones and I'd classify the support as "better than you'd expect for the price, but only so-so in absolute terms"