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jrfloyesterday at 7:25 PM3 repliesview on HN

I get why these types of devices are appealing from an "oooh new shiny" perspective but let's be honest: the smartphone design is essentially perfected. Software keyboards are far better than physical ones at that size due to the adaptive keyboard touch target re-sizing that goes on behind the scenes. Just use your existing phone and delete all the distracting stuff, it'll be far more reliable than some small-batch manufacturing run of something like this.


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danisthyesterday at 7:39 PM

Maybe I’m just bad at it, but it’s been 16 years since I gave up my blackberry and I’m still way less accurate with touch screens. This is across flagship phones from both android and iOS.

wookmasteryesterday at 8:00 PM

Software keyboards are not "far better" than physical keyboards.

unreal6yesterday at 7:49 PM

I recently received my clicks power keyboard and after 2-3 weeks of usage am substantially slower and less accurate; that being said, I never developed "blackberry" muscle memory.

https://www.clicks.tech/powerkeyboard