Why are the key rows not offset?
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Fancy otho mechanical keyboard.
It's sexy and I love it
The fit is tuff
Only reason im considering a razr ultra, but honestly I have minimal issues with a touch keyboard, I do rememeber having way less misclicks and typos on physical keyboards tho
🎶 I want a girl with a short skirt and a looooooooooong Android 🎶
But what if she's named Karen and drives a white Chrysler LeBaron?
as long as it doesn't have a bucket seat
You have my attention.
Didn't think I'd make it this far, don't know what to say lol
Does it run Waydroid?
This is a pixel 9 pro running GrapheneOS and the terminal is from an app called Termux
Where did you get this keyboard case and do they make one for the Pixel 7 ?
Oh, yeah. Didn't zoom in and thought it was PostmarketOS.
Its just android with the termux app open...
I wish physical keyboards would come back. I suck at touchscreen ones
I used to hate touchscreen keyboards, but then I learned about swipe-to-text. Now I can swipe words on a digital keyboard faster than I can type them on a physical keyboard. I can't go back to pressing individual keys now unless it's on a desktop computer keyboard.
I switch between three languages. Swiping is ass in my case.
Same here, all nice and good when it's English, but then switch to Hungarian or Slovak and shit breaks fast
Only if you suck at typing I guess. I make use of swiping keyboards as well for the past... 12+ years I think.
I've been trying to degoogle and this exact reason had become an obstacle. No other keyboard I've tried is as accurate at swipe typing as gboard. And I've been swiping since the feature was new, so now I'm awfully slow at key typing.
Have a look at Heliboard. It's open source. To get swipe you have to import a component that is extracted from GBoard that doesn't come with the app, but it can be acquired from... places.
I use swipe too, but it often gives me the wrong words, and I have to manually type what I want. Also, it only works for dictionary words.
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And even then i always get frustrated if the full word doesn't pop up after I've typed a few letters.
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ThumbKey made the difference for me. Completely new way to define touchscreen keyboards, but after some months now, I can type blindly on a touchscreen 👍. Caveat: in the beginning typing will be very, very slow.
Yess I love thumb-key! Open source, customizable minimal UI, and multiple layouts for many languages.
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I like the idea of a physical keyboard, but I hate the idea of making my phone even bigger
Yeah, I'd be fine with thicker, but not longer. If this slid out when you needed it then I'd be up for it.
It looks so cool though. Trust me when you have it on you feel the power.
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long / 10
Like my beloved Nokia N900 and my current Pixel 6 had a bastard love child and I am all about it.
I had a Nokia N97, which iirc was a shit phone, but that pop out keyboard was magical.
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Charge your damn battery ffs
No. He just throws it away when the battery dies and gets a new phone.
FFS.
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