Very low-end Android phone I dumbed down for a “30 day dumbphone challenge” (wanted to be able to re-purpose it / un-dumb it afterward). Ended up liking it so much, I stuck with it as my daily driver.
T9 worked a hell of a lot better than whatever the dunce we have now. I could do that shit one handed not looking and still get a coherent message out. Now paying FULL attention to what I’m doing I’ll still say thigns loke this.
No they didn’t, they died doing this wrong. They wouldn’t make a normal Droid pattern landscape keyboard phone. They always had to make vertical out-the-end keyboards that were too narrow for humans to type on.
I think the vertical keyboards would have been fine, but not switching to Android definitely lead to their downfall. They had too much arrogance as the smartphone leader and thought everyone would move their apps to their system even though they were the ones playing catchup.
T9 took significantly longer to type with. I rocked a flip phone and enjoyed how engaging t9 was and the added time cost acted as a buffer so that I was less likely to use the device for frivolous stuff.
Are you referring to having to press the 2 key three times in order to type the letter c? Usually T9 refers to the type of predictive text where you can press just 43556 and the phone predicts that you are typing hello
I was proficient at T9 in a way that I just haven’t been able to build with an onscreen keyboard. I endnup typingblikenthis because I can’t feel where the space bar is, and having to go back and fix everything is a pain. So you either end up incomprehensible or you turn on autocorrect and end up typing like ducking shot.
Was this just buying an android flip phone and turning off all the data leaks? Or did you like re-flash some cool old Nokia or something with a custom rom type of deal?
Still rocking one 😎
Edit/Bonus: Watching DS9 on a flip phone, as far away from the concept of god as possible:
What??
This is amazing.
Very low-end Android phone I dumbed down for a “30 day dumbphone challenge” (wanted to be able to re-purpose it / un-dumb it afterward). Ended up liking it so much, I stuck with it as my daily driver.
Reminds me of simpler times. Please reassure me that this isn’t how you’re browsing Lemmy though…
As gen X/Y, we should exclusively be shitposting in T9
T9 worked a hell of a lot better than whatever the dunce we have now. I could do that shit one handed not looking and still get a coherent message out. Now paying FULL attention to what I’m doing I’ll still say thigns loke this.
Blackberry died for this.
No they didn’t, they died doing this wrong. They wouldn’t make a normal Droid pattern landscape keyboard phone. They always had to make vertical out-the-end keyboards that were too narrow for humans to type on.
I think the vertical keyboards would have been fine, but not switching to Android definitely lead to their downfall. They had too much arrogance as the smartphone leader and thought everyone would move their apps to their system even though they were the ones playing catchup.
T9 took significantly longer to type with. I rocked a flip phone and enjoyed how engaging t9 was and the added time cost acted as a buffer so that I was less likely to use the device for frivolous stuff.
Are you referring to having to press the
2key three times in order to type the letterc? Usually T9 refers to the type of predictive text where you can press just43556and the phone predicts that you are typinghelloYes I am lol, ty for the correction
I was proficient at T9 in a way that I just haven’t been able to build with an onscreen keyboard. I endnup typingblikenthis because I can’t feel where the space bar is, and having to go back and fix everything is a pain. So you either end up incomprehensible or you turn on autocorrect and end up typing like ducking shot.
Lol, no. Though it does work in a pinch.
Was this just buying an android flip phone and turning off all the data leaks? Or did you like re-flash some cool old Nokia or something with a custom rom type of deal?
The former
https://dubvee.org/post/1715655
Ah cool, okay so really more a of a lifehack improvement thing more than an exercise in privacy. Glad to know those are out there.
Have you included the chirp as your notifications?
Still using Voyager door chime: https://www.trekcore.com/audio/doors/voy_door_chime.mp3
If/when I tire of that, I’m absolutely going to switch to the communicator chirp. Sadly, I haven’t found a way to play a sound when I flip it open.
As great as it would be to have it chirp every time you open it, I think that would probably get annoying after a while.
You mix it up by programming the chirp and a random panicked message from your crew that:
I had a comm badge chirp for a long time. Everyone that heard it always asked if my phone was broken lol
Profile pic checks out 😉
This is great. Is there a landscape mode option for playing video? You could get a few more pixels in.
Yeah, there is. Was just easier to photograph in portrait.
Neat!