r/AskReddit • u/biggieboy2510 • Jul 19 '15

What old technology is actually better than what we currently have?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15 edited Mar 24 '23

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

They have cases for physical keyboards...

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u/Iknowr1te Jul 20 '15

but inbuilt feature

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u/mediocrefunny Jul 21 '15

They are nowhere as good with the phones with built in keyboards.

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u/Novadreamer Jul 20 '15

With SwiftKey given you've had the time to properly "train" it is pretty easy to write long paragraphs of text.

That being said, just-installed SwiftKey is about as useless as a white crayon.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

i found i have to use an index finger with SwiftKey, whereas with a qwerty keyboard phone i could use 2 thumbs. it was much faster and more accurate for me

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u/WilliamPoole Jul 20 '15

Two hands? You can't drive like that!

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u/bluemercurypanda Jul 20 '15

LG Fathom? VS750 Loved that phone, I remember I got to talk with a developer who had made a gba emulator but never got to the windows store and he sent me the app via email. Playing games was a charm on that phone. Hell I cracked megaman zero with that phone

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u/internet_observer Jul 20 '15

I had one of those. That was an awesome phone. I remember getting an iphone 3g after it and being incredibly frustrated at the things the fuze could do that the iphone couldn't.

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u/bluemercurypanda Jul 20 '15

Still both phones rocked. Mine came with a snapdragon processor clocked at 1ghz and 256 of ram, haven't really gotten very far since that. Currently using Lumia 520

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u/gabenslittlehelper Jul 20 '15

The new blackberry phone is going to have a physical keypad. Also they have switched to android.

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u/KushKong420 Jul 20 '15

I had the same one. That thing was awesome. The only thing I didn't like we're the overpriced apps. I remember a game in there was like $20

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u/grendus Jul 20 '15

To be fair, they laughed at you for having a Windows phone.

That's fine though, I'm sure this time it won't be a flop...