[w-ll]

Amazing work. I really do miss the OG Motorola Droids with the slide keyboard. Being able to ssh into a server with a nearly proper keyboard seems ahead of today.

[roughly]

The OG Droid remains one of my favorite devices I’ve ever owned - it’s the closest I’ve ever felt to being in the future, and the whole vibe was intensely cyberpunk.

[Den_VR]

And you could swap battery packs whenever you wanted.

[abnercoimbre]

And what do you use these days?

[kjkjadksj]

I don’t think kids today know how nice it was to have a proper keyboard or even t9. You could text blind from within your hoodie pocket in class.

[rainingmonkey]

The FxTec Pro1 is the only sliding keyboard phone of the last decade. I have one, it's not perfect but it is quite good, and better than all the other recent keyboard phones!

[w-ll]

T9 texting in my pocket on a Nokia 330 is our generations Morse code

[supportengineer]

You can add a physical keyboard to an iPhone [0]

[0] https://www.clicks.tech

[giveita]

You can also connect a Bluetooth keyboard to any phone.

[mapontosevenths]

I have one of these. It's neat and does work well. However, it makes the phone incredibly long and awkward to hold.

If it was sliding case it would be perfect, but as it's stands the phone doesn't fit in my pocket if I use it.

[0xbadcafebee]

The product everybody wants in the form factor nobody wants

[OccamsMirror]

Gosh that looks as cool as it does awkward.

[ProAm]

I would love another slider keyboard phone. I had so many in the past they were great.

[kjkjadksj]

You’d think the slider would be fragile but it was really robust. I’d use my old samsung with no case. No glass all plastic. Throw it across the room and it would be fine. If I ever found it in my parents house again I bet it’s still sliding fine. So satisfying like a fidget spinner.

[coffeecantcode]

I was too young when it came out to actually get one, but I remember that red glowing eye, I actually ripped an ad out of a magazine for the original droid and hung it in my room because it looked so badass.

I remember being disappointed to see Android go the cute cuddly green robot route instead of the sick red droid look but overall it was definitely more palatable for the masses.