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It’s all free (if you make it yourself) and open source.
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This is awesome!
Even if it wasn’t free, this is the correct way to market something on reddit before us, and now Lemmy. Upvote for acceptable post.
I’ve been posting this on a few places over the last 1.5 years. Basically where ever I currently am when the thought crosses my mind ;)
I posted it on Beehaw a few weeks ago.
I’d love to see that for an iPhone.
It is actually iPhone (theoretically) iPhone compatible. Just hasn’t been tested.
You just need a Lightning OTG connector instead of the USB C OTG one, and you need to adjust the case to fit the iPhone.
That’s super cool.
Thanks!
What emoji did you use here? Can’t see it on my Android ☹️
I didn’t use any emoji, but I will now: :-)
Damn, I’m gonna look more like a dork than I already do
The Onscreen keyboard still being visible would bother me so bad
It doesn’t have to be. I actually use a custom onscreen keyboard that just shows special characters that aren’t on the keyboard.
But you can just as easily tell the phone to hide the onscreen keyboard if the physical one is attached. Just a checkbox that needs to be toggled.
What software is driving that custom on screen keyboard? I think it’s brilliant!
It’s called Gr8ly. It’s not perfect, but it does the job.
I really wish it was possible to hide the bottom row of the custom keyboard, since it serves no purpouse in my use case.
Makes me miss my PRIV!
Awesome project, very retro cool!
We’ve finally done it, we’ve come full circle back to Blackberry phones.
If Blackberry doesn’t make phones any more, the community will have to fill that void.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/iDb8_ld9gOQ
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I had an idea for a similar product, just didn’t have the time to get the right people to make it :p Really cool, and I didn’t think of using an actual replacement keyboard.
The replacement keyboard removes like 90% of the headache and the minimum order quantity.
If you want to go and make it, I’d be more than happy. I’d even be happy for someone making them and selling them, as long as my repo is mentioned somewhere.
Indeed. Tho there probably aren’t too many left in stock to make a larger-scale product, unless there’s a full warehouse of them from when BB started losing to touchscreen devices.
There are actually surprisingly many of these still around, considering that the Blackberry Q10 came out 10 years ago.
But yeah, to sell >1000 or so of them, there’s probably not enough supply.
You’ve made me realize I miss my HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1. Loved that form factor, and would love a modern redesign.
There are still phones like that, check out the Astro Slide 5G for instance.
I’m not even a fan of physical keys but i really want to buy it
I’m not selling these, due to patent issues, supply issues and a rather awkward amount of people who would want to buy them. I’ve had ~100 people asking for one. If it was ~5 or so, I could just make them and give them away either at cost or for free. The amount of work and money is small enough, and support/warranty is not an issue.
If it was >20k people, I could get a production partner that would do the production for me, I could hire support staff and so on.
But with ~100 units, that’s by far not enough to hire anyone, but it’s still enough that I would have to deal with returns/warranty/support and that it’s too much for me to actually do it on my own next to my real job.
But the design is free and open source, so if anyone wants to make them (even commercially), I’d be more than happy.
Yeah, back in the day when you could actually still buy phones with keyboards.
That is amazing. I miss the tactility of real life keys and less mistakes made with them compared to onscreen keys.
I don’t know why but my brain decided to bookmark this comment. I like the cutnod your jib and I wish in this moment lemmy had the KBin feature of upvotes AND boosts
Did you wake up from a coma from the 2000s and are trying to bring back Blackberry phones and PDAs? If so, I am all for it.
Almostˆˆ My Droid 4 died in 2016 and that sent me on a ~6 year quest to design a decent keyboard attachment for my phone.
