• xcjs@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    I’m upset that they’ll make foldable screens before adding a physical keyboard “because movable parts break too often”.

    • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      16 hours ago

      I don’t see what would be the value in that anymore. I didn’t use a phone with a physical keyboard in a while but I think a virtual 3x3 keyboard would be more comfortable.

          • xcjs@programming.dev
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            9
            ·
            edit-2
            1 day ago

            I think cooler is subjective. With a physical keyboard back in the day and Remote Desktop, I had a pocket-sized Windows PC with me at all times. With SSH, I had a portable terminal I could easily administer servers around the world with. I thought that was pretty cool.

            Now I’m tap typing on a device with no physical feedback where the keyboard hides half the screen and reshuffles my terminal output every time said keyboard is shown and hidden. That’s not cool at all.

            • Stez@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              2 days ago

              Yeah but like the screen folds. I agree that the keyboard has some uses. The folding screen doesn’t really or not nearly as many it’s just novelty cool. I personally don’t have a use case for either so the more technically impressive thing (the folding screen) seems cooler to me. And you have to admit that the first time you saw a folding tablet phone thing it kinda blew ur mind or at least it blew mine.