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It’s all free (if you make it yourself) and open source.
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Even if it wasn’t free, this is the correct way to market something on reddit before us, and now Lemmy. Upvote for acceptable post.
I’ve been posting this on a few places over the last 1.5 years. Basically where ever I currently am when the thought crosses my mind ;)
I posted it on Beehaw a few weeks ago.
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The Onscreen keyboard still being visible would bother me so bad
It doesn’t have to be. I actually use a custom onscreen keyboard that just shows special characters that aren’t on the keyboard.
But you can just as easily tell the phone to hide the onscreen keyboard if the physical one is attached. Just a checkbox that needs to be toggled.
What software is driving that custom on screen keyboard? I think it’s brilliant!
It’s called Gr8ly. It’s not perfect, but it does the job.
I really wish it was possible to hide the bottom row of the custom keyboard, since it serves no purpouse in my use case.
That is amazing. I miss the tactility of real life keys and less mistakes made with them compared to onscreen keys.
I don’t know why but my brain decided to bookmark this comment. I like the cutnod your jib and I wish in this moment lemmy had the KBin feature of upvotes AND boosts
Yeah, back in the day when you could actually still buy phones with keyboards.
I’m pretty sure my first android phone was the Droid and it had a physical keyboard underneath the screen, which slid out to reveal the keyboard. Since on-screen keyboard was also an option, the only time I used the physical keyboard was when I remembered it was an option that I never used.
That may have been different if keyboard shortcuts worked on it. (I don’t know if they did or not, but if they did I didn’t know about it back then)
I had a HTC G1, the first android phone, it had a slide out keyboard, and it was nice. The mechanism was satisfying to fidget with and it was a full 5 row keyboard with enough space you could comfortably type even in a terminal emulator. The screen was small, and the onscreen keyboard at the time sucked for autocorrect.
I’m glad the track ball, and the chin didn’t stick around.
I didn’t have a Droid 1, but I heard it’s keyboard sucked.
I had an HTC Universal, with a keyboard that was so huge that it effectively masked how bad the keys themselves were.
I then had a Droid 3, which was much better and then a Droid 4 which was the sweet spot. I had Linux in a chroot (still do), and it was an almost desktop-like experience with the 5-row keyboard and the touchscreen acting as a trackpad. It was really good.
I tried making different side-sliding attachments, but these are always chunky, center of balance is always terrible and you need to use Bluetooth, which also sucks.
So I ended up sticking a Blackberry keyboard to my phone. I still wish I had a landscape keyboard, but this is the best I could come up with so far.
Did you wake up from a coma from the 2000s and are trying to bring back Blackberry phones and PDAs? If so, I am all for it.
Almostˆˆ My Droid 4 died in 2016 and that sent me on a ~6 year quest to design a decent keyboard attachment for my phone.
Awesome project, very retro cool!
I don’t have any questions, just wanted to say this is cool.
This looks really cool. Would you be open to selling a fully functional unit?
No, sadly not. Weirdly enough, it’s a mental load thing. But I’d be very happy if anyone wants to make and sell these. No problem with someone else making a profit off that project.
Makes me miss my PRIV!
I’m not even a fan of physical keys but i really want to buy it
I’ve been wishing for such a thing for a long time. That looks great!
Thanks!
This is awesome!
I had an idea for a similar product, just didn’t have the time to get the right people to make it :p Really cool, and I didn’t think of using an actual replacement keyboard.
The replacement keyboard removes like 90% of the headache and the minimum order quantity.
If you want to go and make it, I’d be more than happy. I’d even be happy for someone making them and selling them, as long as my repo is mentioned somewhere.
Indeed. Tho there probably aren’t too many left in stock to make a larger-scale product, unless there’s a full warehouse of them from when BB started losing to touchscreen devices.
Indeed. Tho there probably aren’t too many left in stock to make a larger-scale product, unless there’s a full warehouse of them from when BB started losing to touchscreen devices.
There are actually surprisingly many of these still around, considering that the Blackberry Q10 came out 10 years ago.
But yeah, to sell >1000 or so of them, there’s probably not enough supply.
