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Definitely not. No chat apps, no proper camera, no email, no video calls.
We won't know until someone tries it.
My wife hates every smartphone that is currently in the market. They are all too huge for her. She has an iphone SE which was the best compromise at the time, although she still finds it big. She doesn't want to get a new one, because there is nothing on the market of that size. She doesn't use most the smart features. She only uses it for chat with family and friends and getting email notifications (and reading them, but never replying on the phone). She also uses it as a camera. And calls, including video calls. This might be a solution, although for some reason they say "no email app". I'm hoping you can add one later.
And then as a child's phone to keep them off social media, while also having a chat app to actually communicate with them.
Even for me, it's been some years too that I've been thinking that I don't really need a smartphone. I mostly need a device that I can use to make calls and that I can use as a hotspot for connecting other devices such as a laptop when I need to.
The keyboard will definitely not be an issue. I'm old enough to remember teens using those kind of keyboards typing blindly in astonishing speeds, even without T9.
Lack of 5G might be an issue.
The price is steep. I'm not sure if that is going to be a problem.
Don't let the form factor fool you, this is not a dumb phone.
Personal grudges. Academia is full of them.
This is the main reason letsencrypt is so popular.
What a load of pseudoscientific garbage disguising racism.
I'm not saying it is perfect, but it was not that bad, really. It's only one level down. And then you could also use a keyboard shortcut for it, which is always faster than anything mouse-driven if your hands are on the keyboard, which they would be, if you wanted to type a URL.
And even if you had to use the mouse, there is an interface feature we have lost: tear-off menus. If you found that you needed something in a nested menu often, you could simply tear-off that submenu and pin it on your desktop so you can always have direct access.
Perhaps the only thing "bad" about it is that you're simply not used to it. I can certainly think of someone used to that UI thinking the same thing about today's interfaces, with disappearing scrollbars, flat design and confusing icons.
Not that it was that much of an important feature at that time either. With the 360KB size of 5.25" drives, there were only so many files you could put in a disk. Support for hard drives was also introduced later, with version 2.0 and if I remember correctly, support for 3.5" 720KB drives came only with MSDOS 3.20.
Good.
LLama 4 Scout: "To determine if 2026 is next year, we need to consider the current year. As of my knowledge cutoff, the current year is 2024.
If we assume the current year is 2024, then:
2025 would be next year.
2026 would be the year after next.
2026 would indeed be next year.
Me: this is year 2025
LLama 4 Scout: "With 2025 being the current year, that means:
2026 is indeed next year.
Fair enough.
Llama 3.1 8b: "No, 2024 is the current year. 2026 will be two years from now."
That was expected.
Qwen 3 32b: "No, 2026 is not next year. Here's the breakdown:
Current year: 2023
Next year: 2024
The year after that: 2025
2026 will occur two years after 2024.
I wasn't expecting that.
And also "Commercial-grade media support". Those two things are at odds, aren't they?
And why is it a "terminal" and not a "computer"? Is it because "terminal" is a geeky word?
And no pictures, other than the very obvious render? How thick is it? What kind of connectivity/ports does it have? Is it completely flat, or wedge shaped? Can the keyboard be detached somehow? What's the deal with those weird keys? What does it look on the inside? What's the software that it's actually using? What WM is that? Can I install it on my laptop? Where is the source code? So many questions.
It looks a lot like vapourware to me. And at that price point, I'm not sure who is going to buy that.
Oh, and of course you're presenting greek text, as awful as it is, but didn't think to check if the font you're using supports greek at all.
I'm sure it's the same for lots of other languages. sigh
I completely agree with the first part. But why do you think we don't have that today, if we choose to do so?