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What is your boomer opinion (lemmy.one)

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What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years

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[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact, there was a qwerty keypad phone in India sold not long ago, running KaiOS. Ultra cheap too, like under $30 range I think, but exclusive to one cell provider and not exported.

It looked good. Shows that it's doable. I don't understand why don't those noname basement dwellers cobble up something like it. There's hundreds of phone models made every year and the Chinese companies of all kinds are able to make or copy anything. Super easy sell if you ask me, in the market where it's h hard to stand out.

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[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not saying it's not niche, but also nobody does it properly. Either overengineered and expensive like the last few BB models, or really crappy like the UniHertz. It just needs something... Normal. BB Key2LE was on the right track (I was saving up for it), but by the time it came out, BB was on its last legs and couldn't support the concept any longer.

I'm not saying designing phones is simple, but within all those thousands of models, many of which have all kinds of crazy experiments, there 100% has to be space to slap a keypad in one. Do it properly, then just update the cpu every 2 years for a newer model.

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[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We won't know until someone does it.

We have all kinds of Android gaming devices of all shapes with buttons. So they can do buttons. Just stick it in the right shape.

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[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant Android devices as in emulation devices in the 100-200 $/€/£ range. Totally workable as phone hardware. Most people have sub-300 phones. A 3-year old ~150 phone is totally functional as long as it's not filled with bloatware.

I already said what's needed: a decent platform that's not overengineered high-end, nor unusable trash. As long as those have been the only keypad ranges available, of course they didn't sell. BBs were too expensive and UniHertz is crap. It's not that complicated to understand? There's still a huge range they can work inbetween. BB Key2LE was almost perfect, only they made it late and couldn't support themselves.