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What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by fastandcurious@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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[-] books@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago

Physical keyboards.

I loathe typing on my phone. My texts are unreadable a vast majority of the time

[-] RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago

Wow, I had forgotten about how much I loved these. My favorite phone ever was the HTC G2. LOVED that keyboard!

[-] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My wife had a super cool phone that would slide up to reveal a full keyboard. Really slick. Her favorite phone to this day, her Nexus 5 was a close second.

Edit: Samsung gravity 3

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I use thumb-key to make typing on the phone more accurate. It works pretty nicely

[-] books@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Is that an app?

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yep. It's actually made by a lemmy dev.

https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

[-] books@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Any videos of use? And why is it 20 bucks in the play store?

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Idk why its $20 in the play store, get it from f-droid.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.dessalines.thumbkey/

can't do a handcam right now but here it is in use

https://streamable.com/v3gt3o

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