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>The thing that stops me is how good texting is on smartphones.

There used to be nice dumb phones with physical qwerty keyboards. They were wonderful for texting. It's a real shame they're not made anymore.

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I think there's still a market for slide-out keyboards on devices. They felt a bit janky in the 00's but I would still be first in line for the next android (or even ios, unlikely) device with such a feature. In high school I could send texts without having to look away from my counter-strike games.

Unihertz still makes lots of the out-of-fashion form factors: https://www.unihertz.com/titan.html is a blackberry-esque android 9.0 device.

It's been over 10 years, so my memory is almost certainly faulty, but I feel like I was nearly as fast with T9 predictive typing as I am with a swipe keyboard on a smartphone these days.

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