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Why are there no new flagship phones with keyboards? Almost
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Why are there no new flagship phones with keyboards?

Almost every time I see someone with a smartphone they are texting. So wouldn't those phones be popular? Isn't there a demand for them?
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>tfw no N950
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I honestly prefer the touchscreen of my moto g to the keyboard on my samsung chat
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>>46928161
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I'm using my n900 until my OPO comes in the post, I'm really going to miss my hardware keyboard ;_;
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MUH THIN
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>>46928202
I should have specified it but I am not talking about these kind of keyboards. I find them personally too small to type on comfortably and I too prefer touchscreen keyboards to them. Also I don't like how they limit the screen size. I am talking about keyboards like these.
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When you can already reach 60+wpm on a touchscreen it's not worth the compromise phones need to make to include a touch keyboard.
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>>46928247
cool cool
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>>46928202
That thing looks awkward as fuck for taking pictures with.
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>>46928242
I am aware of the jolla keyboard which is why I said flagship. The jolla has outdated specs.
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>>46928242
Why does that white-board eraser have a screen?
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>>46928247
>tfw I still have that phone.
I really need to let myself get a new one, but I don't call people anyway, just receive.
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>>46928298
Is the keyboard as pleasant to type on as it looks?
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>>46928236
this
whole so-thin-it-fits-hipster's-tight-jeans-pocket is taking everything useful away.
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>>46928325
Absolutely, but as far using that model in this day and age it's not even remotely worth it to put up with the bullshit of gen 1 android hardware (and ROMS).

Made emulators preddy gud as well as the odd occasion i SSH'd into somewhere, significantly less akward with a keyboard.
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>>46928261
>using a "business" phone to take faggot pictures
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>>46928415
What should I get instead then?
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>>46928450
I don't know, a camera perhaps?
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I think the digit keys with t9 was faster than those tiny ass keyboards.
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>>46928465

>2015
>using a dedicated camera for odd shots

Nice try anon
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I can't swype on that..
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No need for it.

Once you get used to typing on touchscreen it's as fast as typing on a tiny hw keyboard.
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>>46928384

JuiceSSH makes using SSH with touch keyboard a breeze.
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>>46928582
this
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>>46928609
Perhaps but a touchscreen keyboard is always covering a part of the screen. It would be nice to be able to type while also being able to use the whole screen.
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>>46928465
And look like this when taking selfies? No thanks.
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>>46928707
>not wanting to be a beautiful girl
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>>46928707
>taking selfies
/g/ pls
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>>46928727
Get in the feel bus, so we can feel together!
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>>46928850
>you will never be a good girl with semen dripping from your mouth for making Daddy feel happy after an hard day of work

;_;
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>>46928202
I want that so bad
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>>46928864
Why won't you anon? Hormones are cheap.
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>>46928906
those are for mentally ill people

also forever a Hon unless you start them at 14
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>>46928864
Ayy I want to be a girl not some cockloving incestious faggot
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>>46928925
All women are mentally ill? Men with cancer are mentally ill? Good to know.
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>>46928976
a guy taking hormones to try and be a girl is mentally ill.
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>>46928976
>being obtuse on purpose to be a dick hole
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>>46928864
You can suck my dick and I'll let you call me daddy
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>>46929033
sure.
your place or mine?
btw you're a faggot.
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>>46928864
I swear, 4chan is full of repressed homos.
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>>46928161
>Why are there no new flagship phones with keyboards?
My guess is that they were mostly impractical; keyboards on smartphones have always stopped working after a couple months of use. That is unless you never used it.
>Almost every time I see someone with a smartphone they are texting.
Visit the play store and search for "keyboard"; you're not going to get swype features with a physical keyboard, OP. When all you're using are your thumbs and sometimes your index fingers, you ought to remove as much effort needed in order to actually type; otherwise it's just needlessly complicated.
>Isn't there a demand for them?
Yes, but ever since the launch of the iphone phones with physical keyboards have been becoming more and more of a niche thing.
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>>46929018
It sounds like anon might have GD, though.
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>>46929047
>repressed
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>>46929055
I'm the same anon.
I was merely pretending.

I'm homo tho.
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>2015
>no advancement of the QWERTY keyboard phone
>no advancement of the flip phone
>no modern combination of both
>people fork out hundreds of dollars for a cell phone designed by the manufacturer to break if you drop it or run out of battery if you take it anywhere
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>>46928202
Now that's sexy
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