Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.

• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got 3 (Volume rocker and power) and it feels like plenty.

  It’s been so long since I had more than 3 and I’m curious. I had an iPhone for work, that had a 4th, the home button on the bottom center of the touch screen and I hated that. What do you want from physical buttons on the phone?

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  • sawdustprophet@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you want from physical buttons on the phone?

    I would like dedicated back/home/recent keys, like on early Android phones. The back button also functioned as a “disconnect” button for phone calls, which was nice. I still miss it.

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  • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I want the power button on my phone to protrude like an actual button so I can actually press it. The thing’s like 4mm wide and I’m supposed to somehow push this thing through the gap in the side of my case with my thumb that’s 5x the width of the button.

    As for other buttons, I wouldn’t mind physical buttons for the Android controls at the bottom, but not really a huge deal to me tbh.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mine has the 2 for volume and 1 for power, as well as a toggle switch to change from silent, vibrate, and sound for the ringer which I quite like.

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• Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Feeling nostalgic for the blackberry?

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  • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My last phone before my first smart phone was basically a sidekick (it wasn’t actually a sidekick, but I don’t remember the actual name of it and the sidekick has a similar enough formfactor).

    That thing’s texting keyboard was fucking rad. I could type so fucking fast on that. I really want a smart phone with that keyboard.

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    • Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe the answer is the same as the cases for the iPad mini. A little Bluetooth keyboard case that snaps closed over the screen, with capacity to flip the phone unit around, in case to lay screen up on top of it while closed.

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  • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m nostalgic for it, but at the same time, I’d be nostalgic for 3.5 seconds if I used one again. People tend to forget how frustrating those devices could be too. I had several iterations of the blackberry, and everyone of them came with a lot of quirks that modern phones just don’t have. Sure, I sort of miss the tactile feel of buttons, but it was also a lot of work punching out long emails on them, and pocket lint did a real number on those things too.

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I don’t care for tactile keyboards because swiping is so much faster.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blackberry insisted on a 3-row thumboard on the face of the device. I want a 5-row slider, like Samsung’s Relay. Image

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• jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Counter proposal: dynamic tactile buttons.

  The tech already existed in 2013, just develop it further.

  robaid.com/…/tactus-technology-haptic-feedback-on…

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  • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am still pissed off about losing Force Touch on the iPhone. Haptic Touch is so much worse and slow. I loved using various pressures with good feedback for things that made sense. It was so much faster and more deliberate than the stupid replacement.

    It felt like a great step in this direction, but instead of improving, they just shitcanned it for something much worse.

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• 5in1k@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I want my iPhone button back. It was better. Swiping fucking sucks and it doesn’t work half the time.

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