Surprisingly nobody else has mentioned having physical buttons on a phone. But IMO a keyboard is absolutely practical for a phone. One of the first smartphone

Surprisingly nobody else has mentioned having physical buttons on a phone. But IMO a keyboard is absolutely practical for a phone. One of the first smartphones I bought had a slide-out keyboard. It's nice to be able to tell when you hit a button and that you're hitting the right one. My fat fingers can't handle on-screen keyboards well, and swiping words never works as well as I hope. So I end up frustrated and trying to fix my text constantly.