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I also use evil and vim keybindings on emacs. I remapped the left Alt on Pro1's keyboard to Ctrl key and remapped right Ctrl to Escape key. Thus, the most used modifier keys are near the home row. I have similar keybindings on my desktop mechanical keyboard as well, so there's a nice parallel. I can also remap the yellow arrow key on the right side to Ctrl, so I can still have two Ctrl keys. I also owned the Gemini and Cosmo Communicator. I just found them too bulky and awkward to thumb type on; 95% of the time I'll be using the phone while holding it in my hands, so the touch typing

I have relatively small hands, but still I quickly became used to typing on the Pro1. I don't even see where the problem is supposed to be. Of course you cannot type using only the thumb of one hand, but a landscape oriented slider phone would need to be ridiculously tiny to enable that. Holding the phone with two hands, both of my thumbs reach across more than their own respective half of the keyboard, so there's nothing I couldn't comfortably do...

It is an interesting question... I feel Pro1 comfortable to type on but I have large hands, so I understand others with smaller hands may not feel it comfortable... however, I was holding an N900 in my hand yesterday and although I did not have any problems typing on my N900, I felt its keyboard is a bit strange... only a few keys in regular rows/columns, less keys/modifiers, modifier only at one side... and really small keys. So I like N900, but I feel Pro1's keyboard is superior in every aspects. 🙂 Having a full-featured keyboard always at hand which is also capable of working o

I don't know @Slion's reasons but for me, it started doing a soft-reboot loop every time when I have restarted my phone. Later, it has also started doing the same loop every time I put my phone to charger. That loop took for half an hour or so before the system booted up correctly. Also, uptime was still increasing, only Android soft-restarted on top of the kernel. After a while, I did a factory reset and it worked fine, but after all applications were reinstalled, it started doing the same loop. After another factory reset and unticking some applications during restore, it wor

Definitely a keyboard with fewer keys would be more comfortable to type on. I think it's as comfortable as it could be given how many keys it has, and the extra modifier keys more than make up for the slight discomfort (at least for me personally). I think the only way it would be more comfortable is a split keyboard, but that would require an even longer phone. True, the touch typing is the main selling point, and it isn't really built for thumb typing. I suppose it may appeal to someone who's going to use the keyboard only when a flat surface is available, and otherwise avoid using t

Actually, I find the Pro1 is too large for comfortable thumb-typing. Travel of the thumbs is too long for some keys when holding the phone by the keyboard. From other discussions here, I know that I am not alone with this opinion. I certainly could thumb-type much faster on my good old N900 -- though I must admit that I neither miss the small screen size of the latter, nor the absence of many special keys the Pro1 has ... I can well imagine that the PlanetComputers keyboard is even much less comfortable to thumb-type on, but -- in all fairness -- I do not think that was the design goal o