When will they release a landscape keyboard phone again?

>>56863114
Never, it's more important to have a thin phone that has fewer points of failure than a chunky phone that can literally be snapped in half

The next Nexus is going to have one.

>>56863114
>Anonymous 09/30/16(Fri)23:12:13 No.56863114▶
>When will they release a landscape keyboard phone again?

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I was looking at bluetooth/ casing physical keyboards for my iPhone 6 and I almost want to pull the trigger but you're stuck using their casing and bluetooth drains the battery faster.

I don't know what to do.

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>>56863148
See webm related

>>56863156
It just works™

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>>56863156
Hey as long as it looks KOOL and me feel like a retarded teenager I'm happy

>>56863243
>You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.

>>56863266
>18
>eighteen
You're not very smart, are you?

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>>56863156
>overpriced

You pay for quality

>no mSD slot

Who cares?

>shit res screen

Nope

>shit camera

Nope

>shit battery life

Nope

>shit mobile OS

Nope

>no native file browser

Who cares?

>can't use phone as a flash drive

Who cares? It's a phone

>have to use lagtunes to access one

I'll give you that

>can't share files other than photos/videos over wifi

Who cares?

>can't share jack shit over bluetooth

You can live without this "used once a year" feature I am sure

>no back button

Good. Swiping is better

>shit multi-tasking

Who cares? It's a phone, silly

>less apps

Better quality and more current/secure etc.

>encryption is full of backdoors

Nope


Android is ok when you're poor and immature using it for: ricing for fun, sharing files like a good criminal and generally acting like a cYboR haCK3r with your redundant file browser and cli on a phone. Once you graduate to grown-up, non-neet status you get a comfy iPhone.

>>56863309
Thank you pajeet, 5 rupees have been deposited into your apple positivity account.

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>>56863309

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>>56863114
Accept the masterrace and get a portrait keyboard phone.

>>56863135
>Never, it's more important to have a thin phone
0/10

>>56863382
>Blackberry Passport/phablet
Yes, hello? I'm sorry if you cant hear me, the earpiece is 1000 miles from the microphone

>>56863400
>4.5" screen
>phablet
kek, what? Are you 4' tall?
>Yes, hello? I'm sorry if you cant hear me, the earpiece is 1000 miles from the microphone
Yeah because that's totally an issue.

>>56863382
I don't like portrait keyboards. They limit the screen size. The whole point of landscape keyboards for me is that you can use the wide screen without a virtual keyboard covering 80% of it.

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>>56863442
Why would you want the screen to be wide while typing? Why would that ever matter? Given you're generally going to be reading text before and/or after typing portrait keyboards are objectively superior.

>>56863475
fucking this

>>56863475
>Why would you want the screen to be wide while typing?

My main point is to be able to use your phone as a literal pocket computer. To display web pages the same way they are being displayed on computers. Navigate through the pages with a mouse like on your computer instead of covering the screen with your finger. In landscape mode the virtual keyboard covers like 80% of the screen. In portait mode only like 40% so it's not a big issue. Typing short messages on virtual keyboards is okay too.

So basically my point is that you use your phone normally in portait mode and then it becomes a pocket computer in landscape mode.

I mean you could even put a x86 CPU inside and dual boot Windows or Linux.

I guess this is a very niche want though.

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>>56863619
Why would the amount of screen space a virtual keyboard covers matter when you have a fucking physical one?

>>56863641
Because a physical keyboard can only be used in one orientation. (unless you make a rotatable screen).

>>56863641
The point is he wants a physical keyboard and a landscape screen. if you have a physical keyboard that only works in portrait mode you either can't use landscape mode at all or have to use the virtual keyboard in it.

>>56863382
>>Never, it's more important to have a thin phone
"The customer is always right" was never a customer service maxim but a marketing design one.

I'd love it if there were more options for phones that were more rugged, and had larger batteries and tactile keyboards. I would readily trade a lot of thinness fro that. But we're in too small a club to influence the market.

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>>56863661
>>56863665
>screen orientation matters
The screen is square.

>>56863705
fuck, now I want one. I love those tiny touchpad things on the old blackberries and that looks almost as comfy.

>>56863309
Nice pasta

>>56863705
>The screen is square.

Because of that the screen has less width than the small iPhone SE in landscape mode. All while being clunkier than a huge Samsung Note because of the form factor.

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>>56863114
2016
dragonbox pyra

>>56863934
Not a phone.

>>56863309
>Who cares
>Nope
Not an argument.

>>56863875
>>56863875
>Because of that the screen has less width than the small iPhone SE in landscape mode
Ooh a whole .31" narrower while also having more pixels spanning both directions and a greater height which is more important in viewing web pages anyway

>>56863940
There's a Wi-Fi only model and a model with a cellular radio that can most definitely be used as a phone.

>>56863940
NEO900 then, if you have to be anal about it

>>56863135
>that can be snapped in half
ok, first of all thats not going to happen. You would have to try to snap a phone.
Second, making a phone that bends under stress is not an acceptable means of solving the "it can snap" problem.

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>>56863135
What you have is then not a phone, but a slate with cellular capability. Keyboard isn't some input method that just was, you just happened to remove it from your idea of a phone, because they took that away from you, not because it doesnt work a lot better.

>>56863934
the 90s really looked like a box of crayons threw up allover the world.
I cant believe that I normalized that shit..

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>>56863953
>Ooh a whole .31" narrower

The point was that the iPhone SE is already small. It's a lot smaller when compared to a phablet.

>which is more important in viewing web pages anyway

But the width is still limited. Web pages are made for 16:9 screens so with a big phone in landscape you would get the best experience.

>>56864042
>But the width is still limited. Web pages are made for 16:9 screens
Top kek, since when?

>>56864066
Since that is the aspect ratio of 99% of the screens people use.

>>56864066
2008

>>56864090
>>56864093
Vertical spacing is far more important on websites. How often do you scroll horizontally?

>>56864109
>how often
I like to zoom in more than I should have too, so moderately often I guess.
Hes right though, riced to fuck webpages are designed for a screen that is long width wise.
Sometimes Ill zoom in because I cant read the word, and the shit on the side increases in length so much that I cant even see the text i was trying to read anymore because its each word is on its own line.
Normal unriced/early 2000's style websites adjust well to either format though.

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>>56864109
>>56864180
Here, (I dont use plebit but google images has taken me there before) I know plebit does the thing Im talking about, here is an example.
1/2

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>>56864206
>>56864109
2/2

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>>56864206
And what's the issue?

>>56864217
>>56864243
That fucking bar on the side?

>>56864276
Why would you want to see it?

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>>56864276
>>56864286
I don't. But it takes priority when you zoom in or have a resolution that the site wasn't designed for.
I mean just look at this

Test

>>56864686
fail

>>56863114
>dedicate 1/3 of the phone to something you won't use 99% of the time
No OEM is that dumb.

>>56864842
>implying I don't use the keyboard around half the time I'm using my phone785

>>56864855
>being an IM whore
Apply "kill" to self.

>>56864868
My phone is a communication device, basically all I use it for is texting and a 4G hotspot. If I'm directly using my phone and I'm not reading a text, I'm replying to one.

>>56864868
Fucking pleb whore, using his phone as an IM device instead of a facebook machine!

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Would you?

>>56865184
no

>>56865184
No because that'd be fucking awful

>>56865197
>>56865195
Explain yourselves.

>>56865209
It has a landscape keyboard and doesn't run BB10OS

>>56865166
Same shit.

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>>56865226
How about this then?

>>56865241
Better, but no

>>56865240
Not even remotely

>>56865246
>but no

Why?

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>>56865257
It's a slider. I also really like the 1:1 screens. If they made this with a trackball or trackpad I'd consider it, but I think I'd stick with my Q10, Passport, and Classic.

>>56865209
Hold on let me navigate that tiny 1920x1200 screen with that imprecise as fuck nipple and retarded mouse keys smaller than my pinky

>>56865276
If it had 200% scaling or simply a lower resolution it wouldn't be too bad at all. I regularly use XP on a 4.5" 1024x600 screen and almost exclusively use a TrackPoint for cursor control.

>>56865271
>no mouse

Shame

>>56865311
>I regularly use XP on a 4.5" 1024x600 screen and almost exclusively use a TrackPoint for cursor control.
My condolences.

>>56865321
No need to feel bad, I got this thing because I wanted it and I love the shit out of it.

>>56865313
It got axed before it ever made it to production anyway

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>>56865271
Why can't they just do this?

>>56865241
i would but i'm too poor

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Could someone make a Kickstarter for a Moto Z keyboard module?