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[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Like my beloved Nokia N900 and my current Pixel 6 had a bastard love child and I am all about it.

[–] elements@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago
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[–] anomie@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Charge your damn battery ffs

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

No. He just throws it away when the battery dies and gets a new phone.

FFS.

[–] elements@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Sorry, right away! Haha

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[–] koala@programming.dev 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Do you, by some chance, write in any language that requires non-ASCII characters? (Such as ñ in Spanish.)

You can apparently touch-type non-ASCII characters with Clicks on IOS, I'm wondering if it works similarly on Android.

My phone died last week, and I was very tempted by the Razr with Clicks, but I haven't seen much about using it outside English. In the end I went cheap and bought a Pixel 9A :(

Touch keyboards suck, but double so if you type in multiple languages, need non-ASCII, and on top of that you want to use shells. GBoard is not bad at detecting the three languages I regularly type in, but my BlackBerries were superior.

[–] elements@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

On Gboard you can change settings to hold a character down and choose one of their non ASCII versions, as well as changing the language on your keyboard settings (but that's messy), as well as using keymapper. Since you're on pixel now, I heavily recommend using GrapheneOS.org . You will thank me later. If you have any questions let me know.

[–] Xyre@lemmus.org 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I've seen mixed reviews for the keyboard. How is it?

[–] elements@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

It takes some used to. I like it but you need to run proprietary software to make it usable (in my opinion.) So far only Gboard and SwiftKey work well enough with it, and I don't mind too much since I run GrapheneOS. I actually love it besides not being able to use wired headphones at the same time.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Are physical keyboards like that really even faster? I would just buy a split 40% keyboard and out one in each of my pockets before I would do this tbh.

[–] elements@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

If you have been texting on a touch screen phone screen for about 10 years like many of the younger generations, I would say no. However people still get about 60 wpm or more on this. I've gotten faster on the keyboard case but still think I'm faster on touchscreen

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I’ve only seen that kind of keyboard for iPhone; what model is this?

[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Screen cuts off at "Google Pixel 9 Po". So clearly the model is Potato.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 5 points 11 hours ago

Google Pixel 9 Pofessional. It's the slightly cheaper version, on account that it got a little burned at the factory.

[–] elements@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

This is clicks.tech for pixel 9 pro

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Moto Droid vibes

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