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You don't even need to go that far. - ASUS is on it's 5th? gaming focused phone (with attachable fan and all) [1] - You have folding, flipping and stretching
by ehsankia 6y ago
You don't even need to go that far.
- ASUS is on it's 5th? gaming focused phone (with attachable fan and all) [1]
- You have folding, flipping and stretching [2] phones
- You still have plenty of great niche hardware keyboard phones [3]
The issue is that these mostly fill niches, as the majority of people are happy enough having the a clean simple phone.
[1] https://rog.asus.com/phones/rog-phone-model/ https://rog.asus.com/phones/rog-phone-model/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF-Hfzntue0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF-Hfzntue0
[3] https://www.fxtec.com/ https://www.fxtec.com/
- karlshea 6y ago> with attachable fan and all Oh my god you're not kidding.
- saagarjha 6y agoI mean it is literally the "Republic of Gamers" phone
- fomine3 6y agoAll passively cooled thin highend phones can't run highly loaded games longer, due to GPU makes massive heat, so actually fan is practical for such use case.
- oriolid 6y agoWouldn't a water cooled phone be much more awesome?
- fomine3 6y ago"Water cooling" is just a heat transfer method, so you need water, pump and external fan or large heat sink. I believe just a fan without water is enough unless you're LTT. Possibly you mention about some manufacturer that advertises vapor chamber as "water cooling". I don't like their advertisement because it's just a improved heat pipe.
- oriolid 6y agoWow, you know what water cooling is. The next step is that you need to read up on building gaming rigs and understanding that setting up water cooling for cell phone is just the right level of absurdity.
- BardRT 6y agoWhoa. Thank you SO MUCH! I'd completely despaired of ever finding a modern smartphone with a full physical keyboard on it. It's been 8 years since I had one. Now to do some research and find a US carrier that it'll work with.
- djmips 6y agoI wonder if you could even code on that...
- BardRT 6y agoInterestingly enough, that was sort of one of the things I occasionally used my WinMo6 HTC Tilt for JUST A LITTLE. Back in 2007 there was a period where I was doing a lot of work on deployed standalone application servers at remote client sites, some of which had little to no internet connection. We'd audit servers before I traveled and send me with the "right software patches", but it didn't always work out perfectly and tethering was pretty primitive back then. I loved being able to call someone, have them check something out of sourcesafe, then throw it up on one of our servers, where I could SSH in from my phone, grab files, edit them, then shove them on my MicroSD card, pull that, shove it in a USB adapter and patch an install for a server with no internet connection. SUPER hinky by today's standards, but it felt pretty amazing at the time.
- ehsankia 6y agoHaha, same, when I got my very first Android phone (HTC Dream) with that hardware keyboard, I would sometimes ssh into servers and run commands. There was also a python app on play store that lets you write scripts and run locally. I still sometimes do but it's much hardware with software keyboard.
- Erlich_Bachman 6y ago> plenty of great niche hardware keyboard phones Plenty? In what way? There seems to be one company that makes a keyboard phone with outdated CPUs and other hardware, to make ends meet and be able to produce such a phone economically.
- AnssiH 6y agoI would not say plenty, but there are at least three companies (Fxtec, Planet Computers, BlackBerry/OnwardMobility): https://www.fxtec.com/pro1x https://www.fxtec.com/pro1x https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator https://www.techradar.com/news/new-blackberry-5g-phone-with-a-physical-keyboard-is-coming-in-2021 https://www.techradar.com/news/new-blackberry-5g-phone-with-...