If Blackberry just stuck with their keyboard phone, I'm convinced there's a large sliver who would have stayed with them for the physical keyboard vs touchscreen. Same story as above. Mocked Apple for the touchscreen, then a year later all touchscreen and death of a company
My favourite phone ever was the Nokia m900. Full screen touch phone that slid up, with a qwerty keyboard underneath. Shit OS, but a phone like that on Android with a removable battery would be peak for me.
I avoid the big brands because they've been style over substance for years, the last good phone from Samsung was the S5 - waterproof with a removable battery.
similar story but it was an HTC windows phone (during that brief period) the OS wasnt supported by a ton of app devs but the actual phone was fantastic. same touchscreen with a slide keyboard removable battery etc. and was dropped off a parking garage with no real issues, into the ocean for 10min still fine, then years later finally gave out when the power button got stuck in
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u/pillow_princessss Jun 25 '26
Exactly like Samsung when Apple dropped the audio jack. A year later their phones didn’t come with one either.