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Sometimes I think that it might be good to ditch the smart phone in favor of a dumb phone. Then two things occur to me:

1. 90% of the ‘communicating’ I do with my phone these days is text messaging, and I almost never make voice calls anymore.

2. Dumb phones are terrible devices to use when it comes to text messaging.

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Yes, I don't understand why there aren't more feature phones with full hardware keyboards. This, combined with the GP's requirements, would likely convince me to shift to a feature phone.

Something like a newer version of the Samsung Alias 2 would be pretty cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_U750_Alias_2

>I don't understand why there aren't more feature phones with full hardware keyboards.

If I had to hazard a guess, it'd be that not enough people want them for it to be a financially viable product.

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