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But a hardware keyboard takes up a lot of potential screen space, even when it's not in use.

• dvdkon 7y ago
  This doesn't apply to devices which have slide-out keyboards or a clamshell design. The linked design is more "Blackberry-style" as far as I can tell, but those are not the devices I primarily had in mind.
  • AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
    There's also stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard
    • yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
      Those are sweet, but suffer from many of the issues of touchscreen keyboards (no tactile feedback, no ability to feel the keys blindly). EDIT: But to be clear, they are great at having a full-size keyboard that takes up no screen space. Tradeoffs.
  • Multicomp 7y ago
    This is why I pre ordered the Fxtec Pro1, a landscape slider android phone with microsd card and FM radio. Oh, and yes it does have the increasingly mythical headphone jack.