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I had an N900, and the keyboard was reasonably good to type on. The keys were shaped in a way that made it easy to hit only the key you wanted, without hitting
by JoshTriplett 3y ago
I had an N900, and the keyboard was reasonably good to type on. The keys were shaped in a way that made it easy to hit only the key you wanted, without hitting adjacent keys.
- bee_rider 3y agoThe slide out horizontal form factor is so obviously superior, I’m scratching my head wondering why people are so nostalgic for blackberry keyboards.
- xuhu 3y agoVertical keyboard allows using the phone with one hand.
- TylerE 3y agoAlso landscape results in either lots of wasted screen space or hard to read text. FOr text you want tall and narrow(ish), not ultra wide.
- Toutouxc 3y agoI had a few slide out phones and a few BlackBerry-style phones (not BB but Nokia) and I had zero issues with either. You could type a novel on any of them. (I’m typing this on an iPad Mini and it’s really sad how terrible the experience is compared to those tiny phones with tiny keyboards that actually worked)
- bee_rider 3y agoAn iPad seems closer to a laptop than a phone for this sort of thing—Bluetooth keyboard time. The iPad mini is in an odd spot size-wise, though.