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[–] 82 points 1 week ago (15 children)

last year almost checked out a phone without jack at the carrier's store, noticed on time, turned around and got a model with lower specs but had a jack

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (14 children)

    The Clicks Communicator BB clone looks to have a Jack. It's in the running!!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (12 children)

    I feel like the only people who crave the physical keyboard on a phone are the ones that still refuse to use a Swype style keyboard on a touch screen.

    When they were first released it was pretty good and now it's basically perfect.

    I have not had a physical keyboard since my palm pre died and have not felt the need to go back.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Swipe was great like 6 years ago. In the last five at least it's been steadily getting worse, and it's gotten significantly worse since they replaced whatever existing algorithm with their AI bullshit. Now my keyboard tries to put in slurs because the prediction is based on the internet. You delete them from the dictionary and they just pop right back up. It misspells commonly misspelled words now too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Why use swype keyboards when you can use thumb-key ?

    I mean, unless your hand are such that you can type using 10 fingers while holding your phone, using a typewriter machine's keyboard (so that the branches don't mix if you type too fast?) is a total non-sens!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    That looks interesting but I'm kinda turned off that it's made by an authoritarian propagandist. And yes I know he made Lemmy too, and he's also why so many instances block ml.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    If yo prefer a non-free option, made by a profit oriented company, "message ease" offer a similar system...

    Also, using a qwerty keyboard doesn't force you to love neither Remington nor Mr Sholes...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Oh i know it's a nonsense position to take and I'm probably gonna check out the keyboard anyway, I just don't like that guy's values.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Using a mixture of the suggestions, swipe, and thumb typing on a touch qwerty I can write faster than I could on a keyboard, it's super easy. Even when I was practicing touch typing on a physical qwerty, my brain couldn't manage more than average 40wpm I don't think. Which is slow, if I remember. Much faster using a mixture of input styles depending on the word I am about to input. My mind pretty much instinctively knows which is gonna be the fastest method of the 3 at this point. I don't think limiting one's self to a single input style would make people like me any faster.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    The physical keyboard meant you could type under the table at a meeting, text in complete darkness, or type while watching something else. They nailed the keyshapes so that your fingers knew they key positions.

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  • Clicks Communicator BB clone

    What I miss about Blackberry is the trackball. Touchscreens are fine for what they are, but the BB trackball allowed pixel-perfect precision pointing -- it was worth it having to clean the lint out of it every so often.

    I don't miss the 16-bit graphics, though.

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