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!
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.
That is amazing. I miss the tactility of real life keys and less mistakes made with them compared to onscreen keys.
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’m not even a fan of physical keys but i really want to buy it
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!
Pretty neat, I likey 👍. Looks impressively slim too, especially being a DIY thing
Awesome project, very retro cool!
I’d love to see that for an iPhone.
It is actually iPhone (theoretically) iPhone compatible. Just hasn’t been tested.
You just need a Lightning OTG connector instead of the USB C OTG one, and you need to adjust the case to fit the iPhone.
That’s super cool.
What emoji did you use here? Can’t see it on my Android ☹️
I didn’t use any emoji, but I will now: :-)
it’s an interesting concept but are physical keys better/more responsive than the software/digital keyboard?
It’s a real keypad from a BB device, so I’m pretty positive they are.
Oh yes! :)
Much better. I use the software keyboard when I want to type quietly or when the phone needs to charge and it’s always a major main, compared to the physical keyboard.
I can type on the physical keyboard while walking and not looking at it, without making mistakes. While right now I struggle (on the software keyboard) to output anything resembling correct Englisch while lieing in my bed and looking at the phone.
I don’t have any questions, just wanted to say this is cool.
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.
