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adb sideload, yes.

Hooray! 🙂

I will tell you of my solution, which may be neither possible nor acceptable for you. I am retired and spend a lot of time at home. So I have two phones, my Pro 1 and a Motorola Power (slab) The Moto is my phone phone and car phone (Android Auto) and my Pro1 is my PDA (Though I keep a T-Mobile SIM active in it). My Moto is on Verizon. It is expensive, buying two phones, but it allows me to have the best PDA out there for doing text based tasks while having a solid and reliable phone. I initially did this to solve a problem, but honestly I have come to love this deconvergence (I'm n o

I agree with @EskeRahnthat right now the Titan Pocket comes closest to meeting your want list and can be shipped now. It will probably do you well and it is currently shipping. https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket However, there are a few things to consider about the state of PKB phones at this time. As you have noticed, most big companies have done away with them and are producing slabs. That means several things: PKB phones are only made by small companies. How much you can depend on future updates to android will vary. In most cases, you won't be able to c

if you want the keyboard in the 'wrong' direction (BB-style) with few and small keys, the least huge is the UniHertz Pocket Titan. My personal favorite is the Pro1, that is about to be replaced by the Pro1X any day (after covid and other delays - the original Pro1 is unavailable except used from e.g. ebay) There is also the Cosmo Astro Slide, with larger but fewer keys, that is also close to shipping, if they have not already begun. There are a few more options with a huge Titan and and odly folding older Cosmo, but the three above would be my suggestion to have a look at, depen

No, don't say that, please. I was still under the impression that the "before Christmas" that was communicated for my Pro1 in 2019 will at least hold true for 2022!!

If history repeat itself, FXtec starts manufacturing and shipping alright and some people actually report having received their phones. But then before they can finish all the pending phones they have to stop because of Chinese New Year during which a major crisis breaks in China and stops all manufacturing.