It’s crazy how the authour keeps shutting on the phone, being like “wow we’ve learned so much since then”, but physical keyboards were the fucking best.
Touchscreen keyboards are super error prone and you need to physically look at it as you type. It used to be the case that you could write and send messages without needing to look at your phone at all. Under your desk while you kept eye contact and a verbal discussion with your teacher and they wouldn’t even know.
You’re assuming the bulk of the interaction with your phone is producing content instead of consuming.
That’s an interesting perspective that I hadn’t considered.
I’m not big on doomscrolling, I don’t have Facebook or Instagram or Twitter… I MOSTLY use my phone for activities that involve dialogue. I’d never really considered that this maybe isn’t representative of broader behaviour.
Has this always been the case? Did the phone changes meet existing behaviour, or drive people to a fundamentally different behaviour?
Idk I can still type without looking at it as long as I take a quick glance when I first start typing. But it is easier with a physical keyboard for sure.
For one second, I’m sure most people would do this with a physical key word too. being pedantic about this is just dumb but thanks for the “lol” it added a lot to the conversation. Also you had to change my wording to make it work for you, fuck right off.
So many morons on this planet lol
i was running the last keyed blackberry until android 9 became incompatible with some necessary apps.
I had practically no errors in my writing. Now on the touchscreeb i keep making constant mistakes even after half a year of being back on a touchscreen.
Fuck, a quarter of the time i have to repeat typing in my unlock code because it didnt recognize the jeystrokes properly.
Physical keyboards can break much easier, also if you speak more than one language they are impractical.
Who else would love to see a phone similar to the G1 get released again? Modern specs, larger screen, but a similar housing design, just less clunky.
I’d love to see a modern Xperia Play phone with a sliding gamepad! I even considered buying a Surface Duo when it was released but gave up because well, Microsoft…
Give me a modern Nokia N900 form factor and I’ll buy it in a heartbeat. Better yet if it can dual boot Android and Linux.
This would make me as happy as a kid on a Christmas morning.
I, for one, will keep waiting for Android 18.
I still have a G1 in a drawer, every couple years I find it again and spend a few minutes flipping the screen open and shut. What a fun mechanism.
Wow I feel old, when I was 11 a cell phone was bigger than a brick, literally.
