Move aside, Apple
Move aside, Apple
That's actually kinda cool
looks techie
fool me once, shame on you
fool me twice... can't get fooled again
I think we can all agree the Priv was a fuckup but I dont forsee that happening with the keyone
Can't put my finger on it, but something about this is appealing.
Trusting anything with the blackberry logo after 2006 was the fuck up.
Because it looks like a thinkpad and not a shiny glass rectangle.
Could do without the camera bump and just have a thicc phone with a thicc battery.
My man
THIS
Not only this shit can't be rooted or unlocked, this kind of fuckup is why BB should just remain dead and buried.
>physical keyboard
uh grandpa it's 2017
I miss it ;_;
Wish they made a new version. That big keyboard and 1:1 screen are glorious.
really about to pull the trigger on one of these. I have an iPhone 7 right now. Should I sell it to get the KEYone? I used a Q10 for over three years
>I miss it ;_;
same
Still using one right now, don't see why I should trade it for something else - except for another blackberry maybe
I'm waiting for the prices to drop below 300€ and check back then. Afaik there are no custom roms for it and I'm not sure if I want to go full botnet
>custom roms
Does it really need it now though? It's running nougat and so far that's everything you need. Also I'm sure developers will figure something out in a few years. If only BB10 could have had better apps, this wouldn't be a problem. I personally loved BB10 and it was the best.
>Does it really need it now though
Yes, it really does need custom roms.
>if only BB10 could have had better apps
wat
you can install any android apk
Fuck it was so comfy
>t.keyone owner
Yeah but then my phone turns into a oven
It's pretty good man
If you've got no problem with Android or physical keyboards it's great
Just like the similar spec moto z play gen 1
It's truly a phone with no worries
Nice but it'll be gimmick expensive
>phone gets warm under cpu load
I can't really follow you there, maybe try battery saver mode
Yeah but if you want a physical keyboard and a not dead os you have no choice
I'd preorder it right now, if it had a trackpoint holyshit that would be cool
user have you ever used a passport?
I'm talking leaving red marks where I held the phone hot not my phone is uncomfortable to hold hot
The thing is like a metal chair in summer in minutes because the vm blackberry uses for Android only runs with two cores
It's literally the only reason why I ditched my passport for a keyone
Also I'm not talking about
>hurr I'm playing gayms on a blackberry xd
I'm talking about listening saved music from Spotify or the Foss version of telegram
Keys aren't staggered so placement would be a bit meh
Also the size of a trackpoint would cover four keys
The touchpad keyboard is pretty good too though
I'm dumb I just realized your screenshot, though you just posted a meme
My point stands for most of it though
>still no t9 android option.
They could design it to implement it, I'm so sick of using a touchscreen, its fucking my wrists and hands.
Excuse me?
Maybe like just over the ghvb keys would act as a a trackpoint maybe?
>flip phone
>low end hardware
All I want is something that looks like the phone in OP but with a t9 keyboard.
They should obviously remove the home/back software buttons and integrate it with the keyboard somehow. eg. long press space bar == home or something.
I really miss having a good way to write on phones.
qwerty is a bad system (especially on touch).
Autocorrection for qwerty has never been good, T9 just worked and is so easy to improve.
God T9 was great
patent is about to expire
>keyboard in 2017
>still using a gameboy for communication
I have a keyone
I wish they would've stuck with either software buttons or physical buttons like the original mercury render
what do you mean?
Okay I'll bite
>using a glass slab with zero tactility when all you do on your phone is shitpost on an Albanian model airplane teletex service
Why would I use the phone to shitpost when I have a fucking PC with actually good keyboard (mechanical) ?
The original renders had physical navigation keys instead of capacitive navigation keys
Imo this or using software navigation keys would be better than what is right now
Don't bait me senpai I know you didn't capitalize your first letter on a pc
Here's a little goodie for you guys
Shit posting from bed all morning, here's my sot only 13% in
Truly comfy as shit
>you dont capitalize on a pc
Only you
Go RIM yourself, OP.
Blackberry is DEAD, enjoy emulating android apps at 1/3 their native speed.
I want to ditch my LG G4, where can I get one of these and which is the preferred choice?
Mine gets warm at best, the only "hot" experince was when pokemon go was a thing but it wasn't as bad as you described it.
>only runs with two cores
Nice to know this piece of information
>ditched the passport for a keyone
how would you rate the keyboard compared to the passport? I'm afraid that it's too narrow for comfy funposting on my favorite bangladeshian basket waving forum
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Are you dumb? OP posted an android device.
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I'm fucking sick of smartphones and I'm sticking with this.
50 $, battery lasts forever, resistant as hell even though screen is bigger than the original.
I just call my mom and brother with my phone, and sometimes some of my few friends, mostly to set up where/when to see each other, so I'm fine with it. I use the PC for work and entertainment and I don't give a shit about social networks or shitty chats like WhatsApp or cancergram. If I want to talk with someone I'll just call him, better if on the house phone so we both don't pay and, having a wired one, I don't get head cancer.
I once used a smartphone and all that crap and I'm fucking sure my brain health has improved since I switched to this jewel. Less distractions, less bullshit.
having been typing on a touch screen for almost 10 years, I'm so good at it now that I don't see the point. I've tried typing on an old blackberry, and newer physical keyboard devices, and it's simply not as fast for me as the touch keyboards I've gotten used to.
I'm interested to know if it is for anyone else.
>portrait qwerty
>not landscape
>horrible aspect ratio for portrait
if you go portait you need 5:4, 4:3 or 1:1
>inb4 i haz small thumbs n landscape too big
Same for me. Got a Blackberry Classic from work and while it is a great keyboard that lets you type incredibly consistent long text without much need for typo-corrections, it just is so much slower to type overall.
Keyboard shortcuts for things like marking mail and replying is neat tho.
Would really love to use it, but all apps I use for private life like Instagram are not available on this device unless you emulate them. And then they're not tied in with the hub which I don't like.
But yeah, even for power mail users there's no "need" anymore to have a physical keyboard.
I have the illusion of being so good because the corrector helps me. But I'm trying right now and if I pay a bit more attention I can properly type without errors even without correction.
So yeah I'm now better to type on the phone than on the PC and this makes me feel filthy.
I am not even at 50% efficiency of my typing speed with T9.
I can't type without looking anymore and I can't write an email without having to rely on autocorrect to fix the fact that my fingers are the size of 3 buttons.
I haven't tried the blackberrys, but I don't think this is a good solution anyway.
For me, the problem is a full qwerty keyboard.
The only situation where a qwerty keyboard is better than a T9 is when a word is not already in the dictionary.
This could easily be fixed though.
such a real feel. I once did a screen recording of me typing, that showed where I hit the screen. The corrector has gotten so good, and I've gotten so good at correcting the corrector that I basically just poke the screen in the general area of the letter I want to type.
>can't type without looking anymore.
Do you not type much? I can type without looking at the keys, just looking at the cursor. Possibly that's what you meant.
You can't see shit when you put the phone in landscape mode though.
Landscape is for video and """games""".
This. Never typed in landscape in my life.
I'm My typing skills are like 1% if I keep the phone in landscape mode. I only do it with the Hearthstone chat since it's the only way to talk to my friends without putting the game in background which could be seen as a disconnection from the game, but it's just outright painful, I tend to give short answers in this scenario.
thats the point of having a phsyical qwerty so your fingers dont cover the screen
then you get the best of both worlds because its the same aspect ratio as tvs and monitors 16:9 and everything formats correctly
Except in OP you have that fucking qwerty permanently covering what in other phones would be screen.
The reason why both Samsung and Apple went as bezelles as possible is just that: people want more screen percentage.
You don't get the best of both worlds though.
Documents (emails, websites, im's, etc) is a format where you need to show many lines.
The best of both worlds is typing in vertical and watching movies in horizontal (assuming the video format)
The only part I don't understand why we insist on using bad systems.
Screen rotation is a good example.
I get why the automatic rotation thing started.
It is a cool feature to show off, but it has not been improved in a long time and it is really bad.
Applications such as video players should just detect the resolution of the video and then pick the right rotation, it shouldn't be up to the user to rotate it or click the rotate button.
Yeah right? One thing I hate is that I like to keep the rotation off most of the time, since I sometimes type/read while laying and it screws up, so every time I want something to autorotate I have to enable it. The "horizontal" button YouTube App has is good as it saves me from that. But I know you watch porn and their players don't work that way.
I'd kill for a recent smartphone (preferably with a FOSS OS like Android or GNU/Linux distro) with a sliding hardware keyboard.
I wish netbooks hadn't died and been replaced with """"Tablet PCs""""
>what in other phones would be screen
not when you want to keep it 16:9
Other phones would be much wider or you stay with the keyone's small screen and cover half of that with the virtual keyboard
so a priv then?
I also keep it off at all times, I use newpipe and you can rotate it too, but it irks me that it would ever suggest to play a video in the wrong orientation.
Fucking this.
I have my old Acer netbook with Kubuntu and keep it as a treasure, there's nothing like it anymore. Sadly it's a bit slow for today's standards, even with Kubuntu, if there was something like this but a bit more powerful I'd buy it right now.
I've had 2 tablet PCs too and they just suck. Keyboard docks are never reliable and sturdy as on a netbook, they always feel loose and most of the times they end up to not even getting able to connect to the tablet anymore. Plus the tablet thing makes them overpriced af and you always get shitty specs unless you spend a lot. Yeah, the Surface seems good, but that's a High end device, netbooks were the cheap cute thing.
Plus these things are hard as hell to install linux on, since they basically have no USB drive without the dock (which sometimes isn't even recognized at UEFI level) and you're not even guaranteed it will work decently once you've put it there (thanks drivers).
I wish it wasn't so shit ;-;
Exactly.
Backlit landscape qwerty is where it's at.
-No latency
-works when wet or humid, and gloves.
-can type without looking
-physical switch feedback with added haptic vibration
-full function keys and modifiers (shift ctrl ect)
-programmable macros/scripts on keys
-full screen open for media including gaming
Nah, portrait keyboard isn't as comfy as landscape.
Also, the Priv was sold for an insane $750 and only got an update to Marshmallow two years late. Blackberry is since then on my shit list until the day they unlock the boot loader and good custom ROMs emerge.
I have yaoi hands but honestly I think portrait is a lot more comfortable for keyboard at least in touch. Maybe it's just getting used to it?
Could try Lubuntu which is ubuntu with LXDE, or install LXDE on debian/ other distro of your choice. It's quite a bit lighter than KDE but still keeps floating windows, task bar, etc.
If you wanted to go full autist you could install something really really light like i3
this thing is so goddamn sexy i'm tempted to run over my 6P
Didn't some company release something very similar to this with a cherry-trail processor? GPD or something?
Thing is, LXDE is kinda ugly, I was going for Lubuntu myself but then all Sup Forums told me "no, with your specs Kubuntu will go just as well but it's a better all in one package!" (I didn't want to go with arch-gento-other shit cause it's a laptop I use for class only and I don't want to lose too much time on it). And now I don't want to go back to LXDE since KDE looks better and I'm lazy.
Moto z with livermorium keyboard mod, Google it
I have to admit it looks amazing.
>pic
Are there sales figures on these yet?
Yeah but it's not as good as pic related
I want to go back to BB so bad. Even though my Samsung S4 has satisfied me for most things, I miss the productivity and the superior keyboard of my old BB Bold. If you were like me and you used a phone exclusively for Facebook, messaging (whatsapp, telegram...) and posting on Sup Forums, would you buy a new BB Passport for 150€? Or would you get a BB Keyone for 500€?
How so? It's basically identical, but with modern hardware.
would by if landscape
Don't know what the user posted but here's my opinion:
The native whatsapp app has been discontinued so you have to use the android version which isn't as well implemented and some features don't work all that good (like sharing videos gives me a "please restart phone" error). Don't know about telegram, never used that.
Funposting on weaboo image boards works well, clover crashes every now and then, haven't figured out dashchan yet because I can't install the extensions.
If you can live with the minor inconveniences and workarounds, go for a passport, if you're a tech illiterate guy like most of my irl friends, go with the keyone
Maybe an Elitebook 2170p?
I misclicked, I meant to quote OP. Thank you for answering anyways. What do I need to install Android apps on Passport?
For the things you listed, yes
Either pull the apks directly if you want to avoid botnet or just install gapps and get everything* from the the play store. *if the play store shows compatibility issues get the apk somewhere else
>what do I need
Welp, im retarded
For just installing apps you don't need anything special. Google for apks, download them, click on them and they install like any app on android.
Also look up cobalt's landing page, it gives you everything you need to install gapps and how to patch apps that aren't whitelisted yet.
*gives canadian police your encryption keys*
That's a mighty fine 'i can't afford an iPhone X' phone right there, OP.
Disgusting.
I'm just gonna purchase my iPhone X to send nudes on and Netflix and chill with girls.
You can enjoy your Xiamoiom ugly-fag device.
Thank you very much
It really is amazing how you can tell what someone looks like by what kind of phones they like.
In this case: 20-ish years old, American, overweight, 4/10 attractiveness at most, socially not quite capable.
>Thinks buying a phone marketed to women will make him popular with women
Typical iPhone owning beta
So what version of android is it using in the back?
>Thinks I'm buying a phone to make me popular with women
It just goes to show how much of a fuck-ugly loser you are.
>calls owning the smartphone with the most powerful chip "beta"
Stay salty.
>muh power
Don't you have a charger to find or something?
Don't forget your charger