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This is why I loved the original Motorola Droid series, and wish we could get another modern Android phone with the slide-out, Sidekick style keyboard.
by w-ll 11y ago
This is why I loved the original Motorola Droid series, and wish we could get another modern Android phone with the slide-out, Sidekick style keyboard.
- SwellJoe 11y agoI had a Sidekick II, I which I liked a lot for the time. And, I miss my G1 for the same reason. I had two of them; the original G1 and the original Google Devel phone. Loved them both, but sold the G1 when I got the dev phone for free, and gave away the dev phone when I got a Nexus One. Have missed having a keyboard ever since. I've finally found that a 8"+ tablet has a large enough soft keyboard for me to be able to type at a reasonable speed without ridiculous numbers of typos. If the platform itself were more hackable, I'd just go grab an old Droid or similar. I don't really need modern for this particular task (though building Android apps has only recently gotten nice on a level comparable to building for Linux). But, running an unmodified Linux is non-trivial, and running an old Android version is also challenging. But, maybe I shouldn't worry so much about it, and just pick up and old Android phone that's known to be root-able and can run CM, disable the radio, and build the stuff I want to play with for Android. Unfortunately, there aren't any competent existing music trackers written in Java that I'm aware of.