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Anyone miss a flip phone with buttons? Anyone?

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As a person below 30 I miss a phone with buttons but so stuck in the Apple eco system idk how I could escape. I like AAPL too, their great as well but I miss the flip with buttons...

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The key feature of a flip phone is that when it's closed, you don't get random user input. My cheap Motorola Power G 2024 seems to like to open random apps when transiting to/from my pocket.

I also miss keyboards, typing on glass really sucks.

Yes. Which is why I ordered the Commodore Callback, a flip phone with physical buttons, which runs Linux (SailfishOS).

https://commodore.net/callback/

No CarPlay / Android Auto is a deal breaker for me

I never got over the BlackBerry. Even after years of typing on glass, I still feel clumsy and uncomfortable. I avoid typing on my phone any more than I have to, because it is an exercise in frustration. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Clicks Communicator:

https://clicksphone.com/communicator

I do. I feel that I was faster and more accurate on phones with a T9 keyboard. Maybe my memory is off as it's been so long, but typing on a virtual keyboard is never a not frustrating experience for me despite small fingers. I just need to find that goldilocks "dumb phone" with a T9 keyboard that is still smart enough to install the apps I really need for banking and comms.

I just miss the small iPhones from the past. I do not understand why there isn't sufficient demand.

They're nostalgic, but switching from a smartphone to a flip phone would be a massive drop in convenience with how integrated smartphone apps have become into everything.

woah i the Clicks Communicator looks really cool! the biggest thing i think i would miss about smartphones are the easy access to internet, navigation, apple car play.

No, I just get a feeling of nostalgia when I think back to those days.

Yes, I miss them a lot. On-screen keyboards are awful.

I miss the phones with physical QWERTY keypad buttons.

Not really. That keyboard adds up size and weight and it will be used very little. Furthermore I would be tapping on it with two fingers now instead of sliding my thumb on my screen, which is faster.

What I miss is a compact and light phone. Less than 5 inches screen, 120 grams. We had them, we could make them with no bezel now, so even smaller.

I miss my Nokia 5190 all the time.

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