by Anapan Sat Dec 18, 2021 12:28 am
I miss slide-out keyboard phones. I keep trying to use smaller phones, but without a tactile keyboard, typing can get difficult. It's really too bad physical keyboards are reserved for low-end specialty phones. I especially hate phones with that wrap-over the edge image. Such a stupid "feature". Who wants some of their content uselessly cut off and warped? I'm okay with cutouts and curved corners if they're beyond the 16x9 bounds (so actual media content and any apps you choose can be kept same-shape with some black bars on the widest part). Foldable is just... ugh.
I know a lot of people who use only their phone - even a couple of guys who only have their phone and a chromecast, then use their phone mirrored on the screen for all their entertainment. Not something I'd be comfortable with, but it really seems to work for them. There's something to be said for something that compact and simple. I operate my desktop computer remotely from my phone all the time - I just lower the resolution and it's fully available to do computer-stuff that a phone just can't. My mobile computer I take to jobs and therefore daily use about 1/2 of the year is a GPD Win2 - the same size as a 3DS-XL. I dock it of course, but it's fully functional standalone.
I wish I could use a watch-phone as my main, but the battery life is too bad. I think wearable tech is awesome, but IRL it's so impractical. If I didn't dislike Apple products, I'd be wearing an apple watch with a sim card in it. Some of my co-workers use them.