[poll] Have you had a keyboard phone before?

[netman 1,424]

We've had this question before but not as a poll, so let's do this :).

[mv 85]

I miss my #n900 (was taken from me during a mugging, they had no idea what they stole)

[Tim6263 134]

Several early Nokias: basic 5410, then 3520, followed by N82, then iconic N97! Now, Lumia 950...

[ravelo 11]

Motorola Flipout (horrible experience), Nokia N900 (after 3 months Sim-Card not detected error), HP 100 LX before (which is no phone)

[DieBruine 397]

Communicator, T900, HTC s710, Pro, TP, Milestone, 2, Droid 3, 4, Photon Q, Edge S6+ keyboard cover, Priv, S8 keyboard cover. 
Probably forgetting a few. And before that I walked around with Psion and predecessors. It was either stylus (PalmPilot) or keyboard.

[SchattengestaIt 559]

Milestone 1 (first smartphone), Milestone 2, Droid 3, Droid 4 (x2), Photon Q, Motorola G3 (x2) with Software-Clavis Keyboard (computer key layout).

[Cemorayniss 3]

The poll is slightly inaccurate because it did not allow for having both smart and not smart phones with keyboards (as I had both) 

[EskeRahn 5,460]

15 minutes ago, Cemorayniss said:

The poll is slightly inaccurate because it did not allow for having both smart and not smart phones with keyboards (as I had both) 

Yeah, can be hard to make groups mutually exclusive and yet covering everyone. And with a reasonably limited number of groups....

How do you count a Samsung S8- with a click on keyboard that I did not use all the time... Or what about people using BT keyboards rarely/frequently/always...

I called it option 3

[SchattengestaIt 559]

I thought that "not-so-smart" phone would mean a low-spec smartphone (since it was slow as hell).
But I don't think it does really matter...

[_DW_ 628]

Well I used to have a Samsung D500 but I wouldn't class that as a smart phone or keyboard phone 🤷‍♂️

[enPfzr4v 239]

I'm using a Priv tethered to a slab phone.

[netman 1,424]

5 hours ago, Cemorayniss said:

The poll is slightly inaccurate because it did not allow for having both smart and not smart phones with keyboards (as I had both) 

Somehow I felt it obvious smartphone is then the choise to list, thinking over it consciously however... I myself used an n900 followed by a slab followed by a nokia e72 and then slab again, so i should know better :D.

3 hours ago, SchattengestaIt said:

I thought that "not-so-smart" phone would mean a low-spec smartphone (since it was slow as hell).
But I don't think it does really matter...

What I meant is featurephones, alas polls are not editable.

[ksal95 227]

3 minutes ago, netman said:

Somehow I felt it obvious smartphone is then the choise to list, thinking over it consciously however... I myself used an n900 followed by a slab followed by a nokia e72 and then slab again, so i should know better :D.

What I meant is featurephones, alas polls are not editable.

 

He means dumb phones 👀 

[Craig 1,435]

Feature-phones are a lot more than dumb phones.  Feaurephones have internet access, dumb phones don't.   I assumed that's what he meant, as very few went straight from dumb-phone to smart-phone.  All analog phones were dumbphones.

[ksal95 227]

I know, I was just being dumb 🙃

[Cemorayniss 3]

Well I had the LG Rumour (which I could not classify as a smartphone) when I first got texting. 

 

I also had a sidekick (that ran android) 

 

And a Priv. 

[cube48 51]

Palm Treo, Palm Centro, HTC Wizard, Nokia N900 ... heck I can’t even recall what it is like to have a phone with keyboard anymore. Looking forward to feeling young again with Pro1.

[david 929]

Looking at all those people who gave in the to the dark side in that first group.  If you aren't part of the solution.....  Tsk Tsk. 😂

[netman 1,424]

10 minutes ago, david said:

Looking at all those people who gave in the to the dark side in that first group.  If you aren't part of the solution.....  Tsk Tsk. 😂

everyone who is getting a pro1 is contributing to the betterment of this situation tho 🙂

[elvissteinjr 359]

29 minutes ago, david said:

Looking at all those people who gave in the to the dark side in that first group.  If you aren't part of the solution.....  Tsk Tsk. 😂

I mean, I got this Moto Z to use the keyboard mod with it... and that fell flat. Don't blame me.
I should've waited, but at the same time I had an Xperia Pro which kinda had no space left to install any new apps. Got a bit painful after a while, especially when moving apps to SD means to only move a tiny part of them.

Keyboard sliders met their end here earlier than in the US too. I don't think there was anything with multiple cores or LTE here unless you imported it.
And well, at the point when I had an incentive to ditch the Xperia, the importable devices were also kinda old as well.

And before that I had something uhh, interesting I guess? An E-Ten Glofiish M800. Back when in my mind, Windows Mobile was a valid choice. It had a backlit keyboard and pen input, so that was nice. The software and 64 MB RAM (24~ free for apps) not so much. Still boots, but the battery is pretty much dead at this point.

[EskeRahn 5,460]

34 minutes ago, netman said:

everyone who is getting a pro1 is contributing to the betterment of this situation tho 🙂

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I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

 

[SchattengestaIt 559]

What is the latest slider keyboard phone we have currently? Is it the Photon Q or are there newer devices with better hardware?

I didn't hear about the Nokia N950 before so I probably just lived on the moon.

[netman 1,424]

1 minute ago, SchattengestaIt said:

I didn't hear about the Nokia N950 before so I probably just lived on the moon.

The N950 was a device only ever made as a development kit and not available for sale to the public, but being very beautiful it hasn't been forgotten. I believe it was one of the main inspirations for the Pro1.

[david 929]

2 hours ago, netman said:

everyone who is getting a pro1 is contributing to the betterment of this situation tho 🙂

So you are saying that you'll redeem yourself by throwing the emperor down the air duct?  *grins*

[david 929]

1 hour ago, elvissteinjr said:

Got a bit painful after a while, especially when moving apps to SD means to only move a tiny part of them.

I would have been hurting a lot more than I am if I didn't have the Link2SD app on my Galaxy S Relay 4G.  The internal storage in my phone runs *slower* than the SD card does, so my apps run *faster* with them moved to that card through this app.  And the app moves everything over, unlike some other methods.