I give you my permission to claim it as your own when you finally get that time machine working.

I hope we see more keyboard phones. I'd buy an iPhone with a keyboard.

Very nice, I didn't know this existed. Looks very blackberry-esque.

I was a palm treo man myself. I was way faster after a year or two on those than I am after a decade of iPhone.

Forgot about this one. I loved this phone back in the day. Remember when it would say DROID when you booted it up?

Look up clicks keyboard. Might be the closest you'll get

Yeah I've considered it. But it's just so loong.

I never used T9 because of that. It never knew what I want to say.

I miss phone keyboards so much. I wish I still had a slide out keyboard

They were so fantastic for gaming. I could actually see what was happening on the screen.

Just last week I upgraded from an LG V30. It was still running Android 8 and the battery would only last half of a day but I loved that phone.

RIP LG phones, I will miss you.

I loved my BB Bold 9000, but the physical keyboard did reduce the screen size to a rather small form factor compared to modern phones. And I dare say that swyping is faster and just as accurate, so even if there would be new phones coming out with hardware keyboards of the same quality as old BlackBerry's, I doubt I would switch back.

Hopefully that means somebody other than Unihertz will make a keyboard phone.

I don’t need it to be super high end, I’d just rather not own a Chinese made phone with all the data they send back.

I'm 40% dolomite

My HTC Desire Z (aka T-Mobile G2) got many years of extra use as a dedicated emulation machine for exactly that reason.

It's not three straight rows of keys with the other buttons on a fourth row at the bottom. That's what BB had a design patent for.

BB being able to protect itself from the big players is actually a success story of patents. The 800 lb gorilla's of the industry never made as good of a keyboard, but if they could have copied BB's superior design, they would have stomped them in a heartbeat.

There's a lot of shit about what happens for a dying company and selling patents and so forth that absolutely is scummy. Serious discussion needs to happen there, but calling for them to be abolished? That's just naive.

Galaxy S Relay

5 line keyboard!

I had forgotten! Relive the magic: https://youtu.be/3vLMa5tq1tE

With all the craze to make phones super thin, soon they'll be so thin you could add a sliding keyboard on it, and it'll be thinner than phones of a year or two ago!