I however did enjoy using physical keyboards on devices similar to what the blackberry did utilize, memorizing which key was what made it super easy to type while driving,
Obviously you don't live in western Europe
In my country it is totally forbidden to use a phone or other device while driving, even if it is on fixed car holder, you can't touch it while driving.
Even they can fine you if you don't have 2 hands on steering wheel (of course you can use one to change gear as usually we don't like automatic gear on combustion engines).
In a later message I see you live in the country of guns and FREE MEN
So I was right, you are not in western Europe.
I think it would be right to touch a phone (on a car holder) to change music or operate GPS navigation, as it is near the same you do with car systems (in fact a lot of cars have touch screens today), but using chat and other services is really dangerous while driving.
I however never owned a blackberry, and there quickly ran out of Android and Windows phones using those styles of keyboard...
Well, you are on time to buy a Blackberry 10 with physical keyboard: I can see BB Q10/Q20/... still on sale at low price. Obviously BB10 is a dead SO time ago, but I suppose you can use it as a terminal to control other device on your pocket or car (a Pyra or other pocket device for example). In that way it can be interesting: keyboard and screen, as terminal, for a ONE-HAND HANDHELD device: you can type and see results using only a hand (and at least one eye
).
On other side, today "Blackberry" brand (really Alcatel, as they bough the cell terminal business from BB), makes Android smartphone with physical keyboard. For example Blackberry KEY2
https://www.gsmarena.com/blackberry_key2-9187.php
, launched this summer with Android 8.1, is a recent Android smartphone with BB keyboard.
Review:
https://www.gsmarena.com/blackberry_key2-review-1788.php
memorizing which key was what made it super easy to type while driving...
...
I really hate the Apple movement that's trying to get rid of all physical buttons
Really dangerous typing while driving
If you don't like voice recognition (I know it isn't ok), you could investigate very rare "near invisible" one hand-held keyboards: there are one-hand "keyboards" that detect you finger position/movement and in that way you touch with them without a keyboard and without looking at keyboard.
Something like for example:
One-Handed Chorded Keyset For Typing On The Go
There are other strange one-hand keyboards. For example:
Nah, I'm running a Xiaomi Mi Max 2 with a 6 and a half inch screen, great for YouTube and stuff.
For me that is near a TABLET, nor a phone
I own a LG V20 (I love it for a lor of reasons: removable battery, FM radio, IPS display, second display, Hifi QuadDAC with 3.5mm audio jack), and I don't want a bigger phone. For me this is the limit for a (not foldable) phone. And I have very large fingers and I am in the limit to use that phone. I don't know how people with normal or small fingers could use big phones in a good way.
If there eventually could be a CPU module with a Rockchip RK3399 on board
I think there will be CPU upgrade for Pyra, although it will take a lot of time.
I prefer more liberty, more security, total user ownership than more power in a CPU.
I prefer a CPU/SOC with
less power but without Spectre bugs [1],
less GPU power but open drivers.
I prefer less power but
be able to totally and really control and COMMAND my device. Today in a lot of computers and other TIC devices (smartphones for example) with tons of "secret binary blobs", "non-specified hard", even backdoors, etc.
With that in mind, I would prefer an open version of RISC-V CPU, from SiFive for example (and that when they launch something comercial capable of running full Linux/*nix and in mobile version), with less power but but with total command and control from user and without Spectre bugs.
I would
love to have a computer, better if it fits in my pocket, having total control,
like in old times, when men were men and really could control and command their computers.
[1]: Cortex-A72 cores in Rockchip suffer from Spectre bugs (the same than Cortex-A15 in Pyra), while Cortex-A53 in Raspberry Pi are immune to Spectre (as they don't have speculative execution).
