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Something old featurephones also had was tactile buttons. Can be controlled without looking. I miss that.

• progre 6y ago
  Yes! I haven't had to use the 3310 with mittens on yet but I imagine it will be a lot easier than a touch screen.
• codetrotter 6y ago
  I was in high school when the first iPhone came out. Before any of us got a smartphone I had a friend who knew T9 so well that she could type out an entire SMS to someone while in class without looking at the screen. So she would reach down in her pocket and pick up her phone and she’d be holding the phone by her side and she’d be typing out a message but she’d be looking at the blackboard, the teacher, and her desk while typing so you couldn’t even tell that she was typing from where the teacher was standing. I found that pretty impressive. I asked her about it and she said it was no biggie, she’d just been typing a lot and therefore she had learned how to do this without really trying to learn it.
  • jacobush 6y ago
    My kid brother and a couple of his friends had this skill, too. Between that and being thoroughly spanked in multiplayer games, and taught the joys of Homestarrunner by them, I felt really old. (Early 20s then.)
• DanBC 6y ago
  I'm thinking of building a tiny keyboard using something like an Arduino Leonardo which could then be plugged in (as a USB HID) to an android phone.