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My phone is an ereader now

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327 points wonger_ | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 02:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
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jbstack ◴[31 Aug 25 08:51 UTC] No.45081590[source]▶
The keyboard is a huge negative for me. Why would I want a significant chunk of my screen space taken up by a keyboard on a device that I'm aiming to use primarily for reading?
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wkat4242 ◴[31 Aug 25 09:55 UTC] No.45081920[source]▶
I guess it aims at the blackberry passport types. There's a lot of people still missing that one
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1. wowczarek ◴[31 Aug 25 14:54 UTC] No.45083619[source]▶
It amazes me (and that's on the account of me getting older) how people not immediately associate it with the a BB phone. I remember complaining at how BlackBerry 10 took away lots of usability tricks and keyboard shortcuts the classic BlackBerry OS had, and also how laughable it was that the original iPhone didn't even support copying and pasting on release. Oh how things have changed.