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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 28 2019, @10:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the pushing-your-buttons dept.

BBC:

An Android phone that slides open to reveal a physical qwerty keyboard inside has launched at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The F(x)tec Pro1 phone also has a bespoke shutter button on the side to click when taking photos.

The London start-up behind it said it wanted to "return the keyboard" to consumers.

Other handsets with keyboards built in, from brands such as BlackBerry Mobile and Swiss firm Punkt, were also on show.

"A lot of consumer tech still has buttons even though the tech is there to get rid of them," said Adrian Li Mow Ching, founder of F(x)tec.

"Haptic feedback never gives the same satisfaction as pressing a physical button.”

Hosannah!


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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:29AM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:29AM (#808056) Journal
    I'd be happy to pay more for something that isn't defective by design, but that's literally excluded from the market, at any price. I've a small collection of androids purchased over the years, purchased. I've wound up feeling absolutely ripped off every time, which is why I don't plan to buy another. That and I've seen how they've gotten even *WORSE* each generation. It's clearly intentional, they're clearly consumer hostile products, their value is negative. Like bombs. It only makes sense to buy one if you need a gift for someone you hate. And I'm not a person that hates anyone, so I just have no use for them.

    That being the case I just try to spend as little as possible on such dubious 'service' and to rely on it as little as possible as well. I'm sure my next phone will be a cheap feature phone. I've been looking but I still haven't found one that didn't appear to be designed as a demonstration of what not to do. I'm literally looking for something at least equivalent to the phone I was using about the turn of the century and there's nothing that even comes close on the market today. I find that quite sad.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @10:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @10:53AM (#808630)

    Just buy one of the Nokia retro models, those are feature phones and work as the Nokia phones used to, with a lot of attention to the UI based on button navigation, I just tried the banana on MWC and it felt good (I used to own the original) and was tempted to get one.