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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 FatPhil on Friday March 01 2019, @01:36PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday March 01 2019, @01:36PM (#808666) Homepage
    they're pads, not thru, which makes them next to impossible to repair. the "solution" to this .05c cost-cutting from Nokia is to glue it the fuck up before it snaps off. g/f's just had her first usb failure (I forget what killed the first one), so I'm taking it more seriously, and next time I open it, I'll get out the glue gun. 5 of the "spares" that I have have fucked usbs, but I'm sure the owners didn't take good care of them.
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