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Poll: Which abandoned Android phone features do you miss the most?
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I might be the only one, but KEYBOARDS!
I even designed my own keyboard attachment to get one back.
A lot of people miss physical keyboards actually F(x)Tec Pro^1^ X has a physical keyboard. There is a modern clone of Blackberry Passport. There is the Clicks keyboard case for iPhones.
I think I'm one of very few enthusiasts who likes software keyboards better at this point lol.
Super-weird formatting aside, that looks pretty interesting. Out of stock though.
I agree the name super sucks. Still really cool there was enough interest in this form factor to get a project like this going.
The formatting most likely didn't help with people being able to google it, or to remember the name even.
It's quite old now and has been out of stock for a long time.
Yeah, I just noticed that it was released in 2023. Not necessarily a bad thing, really, but damn I'd like one of these devices if not for that form factor on its own. Still has official LOS support, too.
It originally was released in 2019 as the Pro^1 with the then 2yo Snapdragon 835.
The Pro^1 X was supposed to be released in 2019 too, and it would mainly differ in software, but it was delayed and delayed again until 2021. By then Qualcomm stopped manufacturing the now 4yo Snapdragon 835 and so they downgraded to the inferior Snapdragon 662. According to tests at that time, this was a major performance downgrade.
Actually getting them into the hands of buyers then still took ~1.5 years after that, so it really was released in 2023.
All in all, pretty much all reviewers agreed that it was a terrible phone with an ok-but-not-great keyboard bolted on for a very steep price. Can't find a price right now, but IIRC they sold for ~€800.
Current prices on ebay are totally crazy. North of €1600.
It's a bit of a dry spell for us keyboard fans.
I miss them dearly. Luckily there is some options, I currently using clicks but it is not without its flaws mainly that my phone feels like a tv remote.
I was watching this Janus Cycle video at the weekend, and god it made me wish I could buy a folding keyboard case for my Pixel 9.