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The Phone-Makers Bringing Buttons Back

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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 FatPhil on Friday March 01 2019, @09:39AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Friday March 01 2019, @09:39AM (#808613) Homepage
    We bought a whole bunch of (broken) n900s years ago (and, yeah, a few protos may have been dumpster dived), and I'm happy enough doing part swaps, so we'll be using n900s until after 3G is dead. G/f recycled one just a week ago (touchscreen and USB fucked, everything else good), so we appreciate it's a finite resource. (It had the best screen of any of the devices, so next time I get the screwdiver out, I'll swap in her old screen to the new body.)
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