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The Motorola Droid and the few after that were the best phones ever. Yes, I rock a 13 mini now begrudgingly after the SE was killed off, but if someone made another slide keyboard i'd switch back to android.

My iPhone is a phone, music player, and sometimes maps. What I miss is a nearly full tactile keyboard in my pocket I can shell into servers, and to type without the ducks.

I know there are at least a dozen of us.

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Another Motorola Droid fanboy reporting in. I bought it as soon as it came out.

It was truly the peak of mobile phone experience for me. If I could get the moto droid with updated hardware, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

The Palm Pre was everything the Droid was but with a level of polish that was years of its time (literally, how many long until iOS went with cards?)

Palm Pre+ user, it's still may favorite phone of all time. Excellent home brew support and basically no restrictions. Wanna unlock the FSB of the CPU to overclock it back up to the 1ghz it was designed for? Go ahead! (Originally it launched with the CPU downclocked to 500mhz due to lifespan concerns)

It took a while to learn to use such a small physical keyboard but it was fine. I irrationally hate HP for killing Palm for basically no reason.

You couldn’t even pinch-to-zoom a photo when this phone first came out. It dropped frames like crazy. It was definitely a smart phone with a touch screen (and keyboard), but it definitely wasn’t an iPhone in terms of polish.

Amen. Nothing has come close to that experience for me since my Nokia N900 departed this earth.

I convinced my parents to get me the original iPod with a physical click wheel and loved it. I and a friend in high school waited for the iPhone with a keyboard that also let us put on our own programs because a phone lacking those things made no sense.

I am a professional Android app developer at this point after holding out. Still would like a keyboard but I expect tactile touch screens to have to come out at this point.

It is rather weird that we are missing these kind workphones which would have good keyboard and good camera for zoom calls.

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