Is this the Thinkpad of Phones? https://www.usatoday.com/sto

fug, that things looks pretty dope.
fucking touchscreen keyboards suck, smart physical keys are where its at

>>60234474
Almost. Not customizable enough (I guess it'll have a locked bootloader like all BBs). I get their point of view though, muh security and shit. Probably the closest we have right now though.

>>60234474
No. That would be the passport if only it had an unlockable bootloader and Lineage/Sailfish OS support.

>>60234474
Close, but that crown still belongs to the passport
This is the runner up

>>60234474
Actually, the thinkpad of phones is the Blackberry Classic, or as my wife calls it, the BBC.

>>60234474
Lenovo actually had a chance of buying out BlackBerry, but too bad the Canadian government went full autism because BlackBerry is literally the only contribution Canada made to technology.

>>60235987
Good, I'd hate to have to drop BlackBerry

>>60235593

yeah, your wife knows all about the BBC, champ.

>>60234474
>bump camera
FUCKING WHY

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>>60234474
>first from China’s TCL Communication
yep, just like Thinkpads, manufactured by Chinks now.

BB's portrait keyboards have always been fugly as all fuck, give me something like pic related.

>>60236454
She sure does! I even showed her how to sideload android apps so she could get google maps, tinder, and candy crush on it :)

>>60236638
>wife
>tinder
Confirmed cuck

>>60236632
But they are not fugly (actually, they are smaller than landscape ones so they can't be fugly) at all and are comfy as fuck.

>>60234474
HOLY FUCK YOU CAN MACRO THE FUCKING KEYS TO DO SHIT

>>60235987
NEVER FORGET ATI, FAGGOT.

>>60234474
looks dope, BB physical kb feels dope, 550 shekels is not dope. I rate it 4/5 m8s

>>60236632
>muh aesthetics
I'll take the superior functionality of a portrait keyboard over landscape trash any day. Besides, they look better than touchscreen phones and any landscape keyboard I've ever seen.

>>60235987
The government had no problem with the sale of BlackBerry though.

>>60234474
>can't stop stingrays
>ships with gapps
>unrootable
no

>>60238892
>actually provides security
>upset that Google advertising is built in

You have a very fucked up set of priorities. Enjoy your exploits. I'll gladly take targeted advertising in exchange for that

>>60238941
>implying a rooted phone with xposed modules, a passphrase on the root and an iptables firewall with any google services isn't more secure
fuck off you shill
>actually provides security
>only form of encryption is FDE
>no protection against and IMSI catchers
>no protection against passive listening
>no protection against google
>no protection against malware (like a firewall with whitelist would offer)
>no protection against trackers (since no adblocking due to no root)

>>60238941
>FALLING FOR THE MARKETING

>>60234474
Is that a good thing? I heard it's a buggy piece of shit.

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a modern pic rel would be nice

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>>60234474
no

>>60235593
yeah, dropped android last year for a blackberry classic. i don't use apps, and the keyboard works until it double types letters.

people make negative comments about it but it's a phone and isn't a part of my physiology. those same people still think it's cool to show of the "Ok Google" or "Ok Siri" launch phrases.

>>60239099
Moto Z Play with QWERTY mod, please.

>>60238966
>no adblocking due to no root
What is NetGuard? It's not 2014 anymore, there's no need to root for adblock.

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>>60234659
>dope

fucking end yourself

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>>60239730
>being this triggered by the use of a word

>4.5" screen
>1620x1080 screen

wat

>>60234474
>portrait keyboard
>4.5" screen
>buttons look tiny as fuck

This is the dumbest idea, who even designs these piece of shit current physical keyboard phones? Try and picture holding that lump of cheap plastic and glass, your fingers clinging on to the bottom 15 millimeters while you desperately attempt to type on buttons so small they could be mistaken for a rugged textured lip.
Like 70% of the weight of the phone will be pushing down the top of it as you type, it's gonna be uncomfortable as all hell. This piece of shit will fail miserably because the designers made a phone they thought people might want, instead of actually making a keyboard they would want to use themselves. No one actually wants this. No one.
This pisses me off so much, because it helps to ruin the chances of a decent physical keyboard smartphone ever being made. Companies will look at this failure as it bombs horribly, shrug their shoulders and chalk it up as yet another proof that physical keyboards don't sell well.

If any company made an actually decent phone, with a slide-out, 5 row, landscape keyboard, non obtrusive launcher, and at a reasonable price, I would be all over that shit in seconds.

>>60234474
> portrait keyboard
in the trash

>>60242701
Confirmed for never having touched a BB keyboard in your life

>>60242854
>oh no, he is making too much sense
>better make a low effort attempt at discrediting him

>>60240096
It's call an aspect ratio, friend

>>60243009
i mean, he is right. i have ogre tier hands and was able to use my old curves keyboard pretty easily. they are fantastic.

>>60242701
You're wrong honestly. The aspect ratio keeps the width just comfy enough that both your fingers could reach either side but also wide enough that you could feel each key out. Also I don't know how you hold your phone but I have my fingers going all along the back which let's me grip more than 60% of the phone instead of the 30% chunk the keyboard takes up.
Which means
>confirmed for never having touched a bb keyboard in your life

>>60239780
>2017
>triggered

>>60239281
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keyboard-mod-a-physical-keyboard-for-the-moto-z#/

>>60234474
when is this thing going on sale?

>>60243944
May 31 in the US, $549 unlocked, only Sprint so far has planned to carry it in store but the unlocked version will work on any network in the states

>>60244376
>$549 unlocked
nice. bet the price goes down after a few months, which is when ill actually get one.

>>60244376
Damn, I think I want to get this through a carrier plan, but I have AT&T.

Physical keyboards are a waste of space in a phone.

>>60245368
Then don't get phones with physical keyboards. Others who disagree with you will continue purchasing superior devices.

>>60245532
Superior as in what?

>>60234474
It's the working man's phone, pure function. I wish it had smaller tactile screen buttons instead of those large touch ones, they need to blend in with the keyboard more and maybe even allow for a larger screen.

>>60245581
As in better.

>>60245606
I get that superior means better, but what makes a phone with a physical keyboard superior to a phone that doesn't have one?

>>60245637
Primary use of my phone is communication and the keyboard aids that.

>>60245637
Half the screen isn't covered up when you type. You don't have to fight with autocorrect when you type a word that it doesn't know and fumble around with backspacing and telling it to fuck off. It's a lot more accurate when typing in terminals and password fields where autocorrect isn't available.

>>60235506
You can just do that with the keyone considering it runs android

>>60246831
Nope, locked bootloader

>>60243739
>2017
>2017

>>60236632
neo900.org
It's still in development though

>>60234474
probably the best available currently