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Sure, the very first iPhone released today, but does anyone remember the first Android smartphone?

In October of 1998 HTC’s T-Mobile G1, or HTC Dream as it’s known outside the U.S would launch being the first phone with the Android OS. The G1 was priced at $179 — which was pretty affordable even in those days — and featured top-of-the-line specs including a Qualcomm MSM7201A processor, 192MB of RAM, and 256MB of internal storage (expandable up to 16GB). It also stocked a 3.15MP rear camera, and a 1,150mAh battery.

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[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I miss the days of android phones with physical keyboards. They were just better

[-] drcouzelis@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

YES. I turned off all auto-correct and spellcheck and whatever on my Nokia N900, I didn't need it, I just TYPED. It was so easy!

And it had Shift, Ctrl, and arrow keys... I miss it so much.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Same. I'll never stop blaming Steve Jobs' hate of physical keys and practicality in favor of looks. Fuck him, but above all, fuck all the competitors that jumped on the "EVERYTHING ON THE SCREEN" bandwagon.

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I do too. Hence I built one. And it's open source, so anyone can: https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You're my hero

[-] African_Grey@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I prefer on screen keyboards now with swipe typing being a standard.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

And that's fine. I just miss there being choices. I get that the hinges increased costs, but dammit, why can't we just have some expensive phones with hinges and let people choose?

[-] snowbell@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I recall seeing physical keyboards on at least one phone that still let you swipe text.

[-] Erk@cdda.social 1 points 1 year ago

What surprises me is that no one has made a phone case that integrates a flip or slide keyboard. It would be an easy way to add an aftermarket physical board to a phone, and from these threads it's clear there's at least some demand. I understand it's probably not enough demand for a whole phone line, but surely something like that would be possible.

When I lived in Japan I had a lovely flip phone with a nice big screen (for the time), no thicker than my cased pixel phone now when closed. The only clamshells that are left have comically tiny screens and are thicker than a fully loaded wallet. They're substantially less functional than what I used in 2007. It's bizarre.

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