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    Self-built slider

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    17 hours ago, belletrist said:

    How suitable is the Rii Mini i6 keyboard for a mobile phone? Does anyone else have another idea for a suitable keyboard?

    The reason I ask is that I wouldn't mind having a shot at designing a 3D printable case/hinge to fill the gap that FxTec has left us with.

    The benefit would be that we can use any phone with it with small adjustments.

    I'm thinking something similar to the Pro1(x) style as it is beautiful, though might be unattainable as it uses a half size keyboard.

    The width would be the real killer as it would add an extra ~6 to 10 mm to the phone/keyboard combo. This could be mitigated a bit if the keyboard length is smaller than the phone. At the end of the day you could easily pop out the phone when the keyboard is not needed.

    Please take this with a grain of salt ATM, while I do have a few ideas floating around in my head, nothing has been tested yet.

    My main motivation for this is that I'm on borrowed time ATM with the lack of VoLTE in Australia and 3G is close to shutting down and I love my keyboard phones!

    One possibility is to find a small bluetooth keyboard that can fit inside normal phone case. Then you could just buy 2pcs of cases and put phone and keyboard to own cases. In the end you could build the sliding mechanism with magnets (see Jolla the other half keyboard) or something else.

    Here is video and couple pictures if the idea.

    https://youtu.be/FqYX0ZbC5uA?si=itPnKwmK2GAorypX

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    I think that another Rii keyboard could be usefull (‎4.3 x 2.3 x 0.4 inches so 10,9 x 5,8 x 1,0 cm)

    https://www.amazon.com/Rii-Bluetooth-Rechargeable-Handhelds-PS3-BLACK/dp/B0B46F8RS6

     

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    Self-built slider

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    14 hours ago, jakfish said:

    A most excellent arrangement, and thanks for the imurgs (I was wondering how you would make actual calls, and your pix explain).

    When I had a Galaxy S5, I found a laptop-ish bt kb for it: a shell built for the S5, and it swung open for typing or you could put the kb against the phone's back for calling, etc. The kb was pretty spongy and I must admit I didn't use it much past proof-of-concept. Your rig seems more useful.

    I had similar approach many years ago when I bought iPhone 6 bluetooth case for Xiaomi Mi4c. I had to make some modifications for the case but it was quite ok. See more below. It seems that you wre still able to buy those cases: https://www.boxwave.com/apple-iphone-6-cases-and-covers/keyboard-buddy-apple-iphone-6-case/bwpdd/pkz-pkgw/

    https://community.fxtec.com/topic/2127-i-built-my-own-keyboard-phone-here039s-what-i-learned/?tab=comments#comment-33164

     

    BTW have you guys seen https://www.clicks.tech/? New Blackberry style keyboard case for iPhone.

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    On the pre-production status

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    Posted · Edited by Flash-a-holic

    2 hours ago, troll said:

    I was waiting for my pro1> six months. Fed by promises, I canceled the order. (which I will stick with you, because you support the wrong manufacturer). It took me 6 days to attach the keyboard to the phone: select the base for the keyboard, build a schematic, write 2 huge programs, make corrections to the kernel code. What has fxtec been doing for years? Shame.  


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1XQ5Hv0sZo

    Nah, mine was better years ago but good try anyway. However, F(x)tec Pro1 is the best!

    Qwerty Keyboard Slider [DIY]

    Pics: https://m.imgur.com/a/Pbvpo

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    Rejected or concept QWERTY sliders

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    Posted · Edited by Flash-a-holic

    F(x)tec Pro1 is very soon becoming to a reality so let's take a look of those rejected/concept QWERTY sliders that you were dreaming about in the past.

    1. Nokia N950

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    N950 actually became to a reality but not as a consumer product which the reason it hurts so much. It would have been great successor for the mighty N900

    2. Motorola Droid 5

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    Droid 5 was in development during 2013 but it was abandoned before public release. Probably it would have had the same specs than the other Droid series phones on that year (Mini, Ultra and Max).

    3. Nokia "Lauta"

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    Another Nokia QWERTY slider that was supposed to be released with MeeGo. Reportedly, it was planned to be released with Nokia N9 but that never happened.

    4. HTC Prime

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    HTC unveiled Prime in 2011 but rejected the actual release. It would have been great QWERTY slider with Windows Phone 7.

    5. Nokia "Soiro"

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    What? Third QWERTY slider from Nokia which was never released! This device was revealed just recently and we do not know very much about it. It was another abandoned MeeGo device.

    6. Nexus P3 

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    This was just a fan made concept but I really like the idea combining Nexus 5 and QWERTY keyboard.

    7. Samsung Galaxy QWERTY

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    This is another fan made concept of Samsung Galaxy QWERTY device. I don't know if Samsung has ever considered this but I have seen several different versions of this.

    8. BlackBerry Droid

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    After BlackBerry released the Priv, there was little but buzz about landscape QWERTY slider. Even thought it was a fan made rendering I was really excited about it.

     

    Let my know your thoughts about these and feel free to post other QWERTY slider projects!

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    I built my own keyboard phone. Here's what I learned.

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    @ravelo I decided to answer in this thread so we will stay in topic.

    Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/Pbvpo

    The keyboard of my DIY QWERTY Android phone was decent but not particularly great. The build-quality felt cheap but the response of typing was 
    surprisingly good. I think that was okay for 20 bucks. The buttons did swing little bit. If I compare the typing experience to Droid 4 I would say it was much worse but acceptable. For me the biggest issue was the missing fifth number row but I managed to solve it with software tweak. I used Minuum Keyboard with Mini Mode for an extra row in landscape. (You could use Null Input Method if you didn't want virtual keyboard at all). If I used to phone portrait there was a tweak which changed the virtual keyboard to another. I used Keyboard Manager to change virtual keyboard based on orientation automatically.

    Total dimensions were 139 x 69.6 x 16 mm and weight was about 228 g. The weight distribution was pretty stable. I mean if I opened the keyboard and left the phone to the table it would stay steady. I could even push the screen part and it would go back to where it was. It didn't feel that it was going to flip when I was holding it. Of course there was more weight in the screen part in opposite to Pro1. In summary, it was better than nothing 😊.

     

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