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LILYGO T-Deck Plus is a $70 handheld with GPS, LoRa, and a BlackBerry keyboard - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (5 children)

If this had a 4g module and possibility to install messaging apps, il dump my smartphone for this one without blinking. My phone is basically a chat machine, but I miss so much those blackberry keyboards with physical keys...

[–] TheGrandNagus 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

There was a flip out physical keyboard phone called the fxtech pro 1 that was broadly liked by reviewers. I wonder if they ever made new models

E: nope

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Same as the Unihertz Titan. I ran with that for two years and it was decent, if underpowered.

The dream is all but dead for all fourteen and a half of us QWERTY phone enthusiasts I think. A surprising number went to the Samsung Galaxy Flip models, though having used this for two years or so, I wouldn't recommend it either.

Maybe one day...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Honestly I just want the pinephone to be better supported. Fuck android phones, I want a Linux palmtop like God intended.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I too ran a unihertz titan for a few years, massive beast of a thing but I love a keyboard. Before that I had the blackberry keytwo which was my favourite phone of all time.

I backed the planet computers astroslide before they took everyone's money and ran after delivering a fraction of the units promised and what was delivered was woefully out of date due to their ineptitude.

I still dream of a blackberry key three, but alas my dreams will never be fulfilled and I'm trapped on a shitty touch screen :'(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I would love a good qwerty phone. They've just been making consistently shitty ones. Just give me one in the end form factor as the BB Curve and we're golden. I don't want to have a massive slab of a phone just to have a keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So I actually bought the f(x)tech Pro^1x thinking that it was going to be great having a physical keyboard that slides out again. But I found that I rarely actually used it. Using it required that the screen be in landscape mode. I'm actually much happier just using a different touch keyboard layout. I use Thumb-Key specifically now. It took some time to retrain my brain but I quite enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You might like Unihertz Titan Pocket then

[–] soupbowl 1 points 4 months ago

I’ve got one of these. Fantastic phone but the official OS was basically abandoned in terms of security updates. Need to check out custom ROMs.

[–] solrize 2 points 4 months ago

I bought a small Bluetooth keyboard like this a while back, but it was unusable due to key bounce. I think of trying this one but feel a bit burned by the previous:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3601

Besides giving physical keys, it's nice to free up screen space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Check out the Clicks keyboard if you have an iPhone.