I think there’s a good reason we moved to on-screen keyboards. Better utilization of screen real estate. That display is absolutely miniscule. And they’re only going to give it 2 years of updates. So pretty much just a worse device on all accounts, in my opinion.
Better use of real estate for consumption. For pretty much any sort of input, whether that’s text or controls, onscreen buttons have always been terrible and workarounds like Swype only helped somewhat, and now even that’s getting enshittified. This is going to be a more niche device, as blackberried were, but for people who need a device primarily for email/messaging/other text input on the go the screen is plenty big enough to work and a keyboard is light-years better than any non-tactile technology could ever be.
Fair enough, I’ve got pretty tiny hands so the fastest I’ve ever been able to type was on one of those slide out keyboards on a pre-droid messaging phone
I think there’s a good reason we moved to on-screen keyboards. Better utilization of screen real estate. That display is absolutely miniscule. And they’re only going to give it 2 years of updates. So pretty much just a worse device on all accounts, in my opinion.
onscreen controls are garbage. also 3.5mm… better then any phone on the market imo
Lots of devices still have 3.5mm. Unfortunately this premium feature is reserved for otherwise-garbage-tier devices.
still better then dealing with samsung
At least your Samsung device will last >2 years.
looking at how fast my samsung that I stupidly bought can’t hold a charge for more then 2-3 hours under that 2 year mark, I highly doubt it.
Replace the battery…?
Same as MicroSD
Better use of real estate for consumption. For pretty much any sort of input, whether that’s text or controls, onscreen buttons have always been terrible and workarounds like Swype only helped somewhat, and now even that’s getting enshittified. This is going to be a more niche device, as blackberried were, but for people who need a device primarily for email/messaging/other text input on the go the screen is plenty big enough to work and a keyboard is light-years better than any non-tactile technology could ever be.
Agree to disagree I suppose. But I have XXL hands and fat fingers so maybe that’s why.
I have small hands and tiny blackberry style keyboards have always been too fiddly and difficult to use
Fair enough, I’ve got pretty tiny hands so the fastest I’ve ever been able to type was on one of those slide out keyboards on a pre-droid messaging phone