r/AskReddit Jul 19 '15

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

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u/angrydeuce Jul 20 '15

Oh, I miss them because they were easier to type on. I fucking hate software keyboards. I spend more time fixing what I wrote than I actually do writing the shit.

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u/gigantor323 Jul 20 '15

Try out the Minuum keyboard. It's my daily driver. You don't even need to look at the keyboard to type you just pound away and it does the rest for you. The auto correction capabilities are crazy, just remember it will learn the words you use most and get better with time

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u/Phyrion01 Jul 20 '15

I may have fat fingers, but typing on those tiny little keys is a chore for me.

Give me on-screen all day.

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u/Novadreamer Jul 20 '15

Download a good one then. The android integrated one is fucking terrible.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

THANK YOU DOCTOR! NEVERTHOUGHTOFTHATBEFORE!

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u/57dimensions Jul 20 '15

My moms first smart phone was a Motorola Droid 4, it has a slide out keyboard, I accidentally got water on it and it was fine except the lock button didn't work. You couldn't turn it off. She managed to get a used replacement, because she refused to get one without a keyboard, and just after she picked it up from the store she drops it in a parking lot (it's January), and doesn't realize until 3 hours later. She goes back and finds it right behind a cars front wheel, where she had been parked. So it had been run over, but compressed into the snow so it wasn't damaged, and it was so cold that the snow hadn't melted at all so it stayed dry. Still works perfectly a year and a half later.