oops I did it again
I ordered old gear
Not too old this time, the Sony mylo ("my life online") COM-2 second generation handheld was sold in 2008 as a qwerty slider with wifi for media playback and instant messaging. Sold like stale crap, so by 2009 it was gone.
@elomatreb you and the thronging masses ;)
@elomatreb hey, pal, you've been told that the smoothest slab possible is the approved aesthetic and you'll be told again until you start telling others, physical keyboards failed in the free marketplace of arbitrary constraints!
@djsundog @elomatreb honestly i hope it's just an aesthetic thing because it means in 5 years when 90s nostalgia is all the rage we might actually have a decent shot at making it happen
@kibi @djsundog @elomatreb I mean, although not a slider, the remnants of BlackBerry are making portrait candybar Android phones...
One problem for landscape sliders is that modern smartphone applications aren't expecting to go landscape, and on widescreens the user experience in landscape goes to crap too, due to apps filling the width.
@kibi @djsundog @elomatreb I recall all of this being a problem in like 2011-2013 when I used a Motorola Droid 2 Global, especially towards the end of that - some apps were fixed to portrait, and as the Droid line was the first 16:9 phones, the width reduced the vertical viewing area in a lot of things.
AFAIK apps fixed to portrait are more common now, and 18:9 screens are becoming a thing (although on phablets, split screen is an option to confine an app to part of the width).
@bhtooefr @djsundog @elomatreb i honestly would be 🆗 with a 12-key oldstyle cellphone layout because it's the best thing for touch-typing with one hand imo, in addition or instead of a full keyboard
flip phones were bae and i miss em
@kibi @bhtooefr @djsundog @elomatreb yep, i miss being able to T9 a message with one hand without looking while crossing the street or whatnot
