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More than anything I want a hardware keyboard.
No, not Bluetooth, not tacked on, not in a case, not vibrating emulation of buttons, not a half kilo Linux phone for terminal use, just a regular vertical phone with a keypad ffs.
Don't tell me it's difficult, when we get a dozen new gaming handhelds a month. They have buttons and Android. Don't tell me it's too expensive if Chinese factories can make a phone or handheld under 100€. Don't tell me there are no suitable displays, when there clearly are displays of all shapes and sizes. Don't tell me there's no interest when there are thousands of phone models on the market and everyone is fighting to find any niche to squeeze into. It's clearly absolutely doable, it's been done both well and cheap, just the phone vendors are absolutely dense.
I heard it had something to do with Blackberry owning a patent/copyright/trademark (don't know which), so phone makers would have to lease the right to do it from them. And Blackberry just... isn't interested, I guess?
I heard the same, but that doesn't explain how there's been phone models with keypads both before and after BB.
Also, I doubt Chinese phone makers give a fuck about patents. There was a cheap qwerty phone with KaiOS sold only in India, and I suspect it wasn't sold anywhere else exactly to avoid worldwide patent problems. But honestly who cares, just make it and people will import it.