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!

remember some of the older phones had a sliding keyboard from under the phone.

In mine, the keys stopped working reliably, but it was still my favourite Android phone so far

I still have my lg v30! It's not my main phone, but I keep it on for apps and other stuff I don't want to put on my main phone, and the battery still lasts me a whole day with moderate use. And yeah, the last update it had was in 2019. Truly a great company. But for me, the G5 was the GOAT!

There's the FXtech Pro-1, with a slide out keyboard, apparently the hinge is very good.

But it's pretty ancient by now and there's still no successor... I doubt it sold well.

Try going a little slower. That always makes it more accurate for me.

I loved my N900. Think it would be doable right now with that thickness.

My 2001-era Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA had the best slide out keyboard ever made, nothing has come close at all. A CF wifi card brought it so close to being a smart phone before there were smart phones.

I would buy it today as a phone if they'd just remake the original with an updated linux with QT equivalent option and updated screen hardware.