• @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

    That’s pretty cool, how difficult do you think it would be for someone with no prior experience in soldering to pull it off?

    • Square SingerOP
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      22 years ago

      If you watch some soldering tutorials (specifically for QFN packages, they have the same pin spacing). But what would make it much easier is if you find a local maker space. They are usually willing and able to help with stuff like that. Alternatively, you can get any laptop repair shop to do it for you. They can do that pretty easily and it won’t cost much.

  • Poggervania
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    92 years ago

    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.

    • Square SingerOP
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      52 years ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    That is amazing. I miss the tactility of real life keys and less mistakes made with them compared to onscreen keys.

    • The Cuuuuube
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      22 years ago

      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

    • Square SingerOP
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      22 years ago

      If Blackberry doesn’t make phones any more, the community will have to fill that void.

  • MrMusAddict
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    2 years ago

    You’ve made me realize I miss my HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1. Loved that form factor, and would love a modern redesign.

  • DBT
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    42 years ago

    I’m pretty sure my first android phone was the Droid and it had a physical keyboard underneath the screen, which slid out to reveal the keyboard. Since on-screen keyboard was also an option, the only time I used the physical keyboard was when I remembered it was an option that I never used.

    That may have been different if keyboard shortcuts worked on it. (I don’t know if they did or not, but if they did I didn’t know about it back then)

    • Square SingerOP
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      12 years ago

      I didn’t have a Droid 1, but I heard it’s keyboard sucked.

      I had an HTC Universal, with a keyboard that was so huge that it effectively masked how bad the keys themselves were.

      I then had a Droid 3, which was much better and then a Droid 4 which was the sweet spot. I had Linux in a chroot (still do), and it was an almost desktop-like experience with the 5-row keyboard and the touchscreen acting as a trackpad. It was really good.

      I tried making different side-sliding attachments, but these are always chunky, center of balance is always terrible and you need to use Bluetooth, which also sucks.

      So I ended up sticking a Blackberry keyboard to my phone. I still wish I had a landscape keyboard, but this is the best I could come up with so far.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      I had a HTC G1, the first android phone, it had a slide out keyboard, and it was nice. The mechanism was satisfying to fidget with and it was a full 5 row keyboard with enough space you could comfortably type even in a terminal emulator. The screen was small, and the onscreen keyboard at the time sucked for autocorrect.

      I’m glad the track ball, and the chin didn’t stick around.

    • Square SingerOP
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      12 years ago

      Yeah, back in the day when you could actually still buy phones with keyboards.

    • Square SingerOP
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      82 years ago

      No, sadly not. Weirdly enough, it’s a mental load thing. But I’d be very happy if anyone wants to make and sell these. No problem with someone else making a profit off that project.