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The truth about physical keyboards.
- lallysingh 17y agoMissing point: physical keyboards will have I/O buffers. So you can queue up your key-presses when the machine's slowing down. My iPhone (irritatingly) slows down all the time, and they keyboard is unresponsive. I have to wait for it, like a small child having a tantrum, until I can type again.
- hellweaver666 17y agoStrange, when my iPhone slows down, I can still hammer away at the keys and it'll keep typing after I've finished, it must have some kind of buffer to do that... Usually after I've finished the task at hand, I reboot and normal speed resumes.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoAnyone building their smartphone around a hardware keyboard is essentially admitting Apple has won. Apple have been very vocal about not having a physical keyboard, clearly they feel the benefits outweigh the costs. Everyone else is fighting over the scraps that are left behind. I'm not saying that's a bad business decision, it's just not some noble adventure in customer satisfaction when you're a) playing by someone else's rules and b) doing the obvious, easy and safe thing because they've already spent years staking out the innovative ground.
- moe 17y agoWhat a strange assertion you make there. I have used both the IPhone and the G1 and in my opinion the physical keyboard is clearly superior for writing anything longer than "omg lol!". I doubt I'm alone with this preference.