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Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 day agoYou’re underestimating people’s ability to text on those old number pads. When it was all that was there, people got good at doing it. They were physical buttons so it was easier to touch type on them than today’s touchscreen phones. It was just a different layout that needed to be memorized, but it was a pretty simple one, if annoying to use.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, you could type blind if you wanted, just takes a bit longer.
MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I loved using T9 and used to blind text all of the time. With touchscreen, it took me so much fucking longer and you can’t look away. I’ve gotten over it now, but I miss me some T9
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
I’ve had that thought before too, but until I just read this now I’ve never thought about it before but… we could just make a wireless T9 keyboard. It could be about the size of a car’s keyfob, basically all battery and 3x4 grid of tactile buttons. And so all you do with it is hold it in your off hand and type with your thumb, that’s it. But it’s a Bluetooth keyboard that just understands T9 and works with any phone. Or even tablets or laptops if you wanted to pace around while typing.
Like, there are chorded keyboards and stuff like that, but I don’t know I’ve seen a thumb-only phone-layout wireless keyboard before…
MrShankles@reddthat.com 44 minutes ago
Holy shit, I’m sold! You can have to rights, just make me an honorable mention lol
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, my favourite was the brief period where there were full physical qwerty keyboards on phones, which existed before smart phones did because texting was popular before smart phones. Also, smart phones existed before iphones did and I held on to my BlackBerry torch for a while after iphones and later android were a thing specifically because I knew I’d hate touchscreen keyboards.
Phones actually de-enshitified, too, because there used to be a huge market for things like ringtones, wallpapers, emoji packs. I remember getting a special cord to connect my phone and PC to be able to set my own shit because I wasn’t paying for a 20 second clip from a song, not to mention no one was even trying to sell the FF battle music as ring tones, which I thought was perfect because phone calls are like random encounters lol (boss battle music for my parents haha). These days you can just set those.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I had a phone with a full keyboard, it was pretty fun. I did also realize recently that I could just set my ringtone to whatever I wanted; I chose The Third Sanctuary (Ringtone Version), a remix of a song from the Deltarune soundtrack.