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Perhaps it's just nostalgia, but I miss my BlackBerry Bold. A buzz in the pocket, email symbol on the screen, main button to open the email, right-click button
by bb101 7y ago
Perhaps it's just nostalgia, but I miss my BlackBerry Bold.
A buzz in the pocket, email symbol on the screen, main button to open the email, right-click button to forward, physical scroll to a recent colleague and select, lock & back in pocket.
All that before 3G. Easy, quick and no fuss, muscle memory took care of most of it.
- kilroy123 7y agoI was watching the movie "Up in the Air" last night. There is a scene where George Clooney's character is chatting on his blackberry, and the buzzing sound made me feel super nostalgic. RIP BBM. I often still wish phones had physical keyboards.
- fuball63 7y agoThe Blackberry Key2 has pretty good reviews so far. Ive been on a Blackberry Classic for 5 years now, when it goes that is probably what Ill get.
- thedance 7y agoThat keyboard looks really hard to use compared to the ones people associate with classic models like the 850. Isn’t space between keys important for usability?
- brazzy 7y agoI'm using a Key 2 LE. The keyboard is perfectly usable. The main usability downside is that all punctuation and digits requires pressing a modifier key.
- smush 7y agoSome do. Portrait style ones are the BB Key2 or Unihertz Titan Landscape keyboard is the Fxtec Pro1
- martin_a 7y agoI would love if someone would revive the HTC G1/HTC Dream. That was my first smartphone and I loved the dual use with the sliding keyboard in landscape mode. Should be possible to make something like this with all the improvements we had along the way... Anyone listening here? Please make it happen! :-)
- rchaud 7y agoThe FxTec Pro 1 is a landscape KB-based Android phone with an unlocked bootloader and support for Sailfish and LineageOS. It's made by a small company, so while the phone is available and shipping, production batches are small, and you might have to wait a bit to receive your order.
- martin_a 7y agoYeah, I saw that other comment just after I posted. Checked out their website and I got a somewhat strange feeling about their fake product image where they run GMail and a browser window in desktop mode in split-view mode. Somewhat fishy.
- retrog 7y agoI must agree, the images on their website do look slightly staged, but being a new Pro1 user (since my order finally arrived in January) I can honestly say its the best phone I have every had.
- thedance 7y agoThe 9000 was a decent BlackBerry but my nostalgia kicks in for the scrollwheel devices, not the scrollball. I have no idea how people used them left-handed, is that was even possible.
- rcarmo 7y agoIt was bloody hard. I used many of the GPRS devices, and even though I'm not left-handed I usually picked up the phone with my left, and resorted to my middle finger (index around the top of the device).
- rcarmo 7y agoOh yeah. The Bold was my favourite device until the Pearl came along (I didn't exactly love the Pearl 5-key-per-row layout, but it worked well enough and was a tad slimmer).
- generalpass 7y agoIf you work in a position that requires prompt, professional responses, the UX apex was the Bold 9900. With the touchscreen, touchpad, and highly ergonomic physical keyboard, profession email responses were a cinch. The only times it was required to "reply when I get back to my computer" was when document editing was required. Plus replaceable batteries and especially high capacity batteries meant pretty much never worrying about charging while out and about.