I would much rather have a slide out keyboard.
too many moving parts the faster it degrades. i remembered back in old days when i still have Xperia Play too often for me to replace it’s flex cable
Just make phone with a removable back that can have a slide out keyboard attached.
It kills two birds with one stone.
Removable / expandable battery, and keyboards for those that want them.
I loved the kb on my BB … sigh :(
“Solved” is a pretty strong word for this even at the time. The fact that it moves back to a half device sized screen means it’s unlikely to be very popular as originally designed.
If they can make the whole device a screen as usual, and have the keyboard fold down and change the screen size to only use the visible half of the screen. Then if the user detaches the keyboard completely the other half would activate and resize the screen to be like usual, that might be better. This would require innovation around how to attach the keyboard and charge it and likely would require at least a small strip of the device at the bottom and/or top to be without screen, but edge to edge screen is overrated and makes phones require a case which means they never get to show off the style anyway. Make the device a little thicker and easier to grip so a case isn’t needed and this concept becomes even more plausible. The other option is to make this an add-on that is a case for the phone with the keyboard attaching to the case rather than the phone itself and having a pass-through USB port to allow for power and connection. But let’s get rid of the horrible cases and make a device that is functional as it is rather than just pretty.
How about we bring back Windows Phone first.
Unironically enjoyed mine. Sure it was a barren app store and support got dropped quick, but it was a neat little device.
I didn’t like the lack of apps back then, but now my used apps are very limited anyway, so I probably wouldn’t really mind. Everything else about it was decently good.
