A long time ago, I owned a Motorola Droid 4 and Photon Q. Feeling so nostalgic now 🙂

The keyboard on this one is much better - it’s full-sized, and the slider mechanism feels quite robust.

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Sweet!

    I’m always jealous of EN-ANSI keyboard users who get neat devices like these in their native keyboard layout.

    I don’t think I’ve had one in my choice of keyboard layout since the Nokia e70… 20 years ago.

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        7 months ago

        I considered their Astra or Communicator, but they don’t support LineageOS, which is important to me.

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    7 months ago

    Man I’ve been eyeing that one for years, I just can’t quite justify the flagship price for the specs :/

    Let us know how you like it!

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      7 months ago

      Same. But recently I managed to buy almost new for 300 EUR.

      I only recently started using it, so maybe later I will make a post about it :)

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        7 months ago

        Oh maybe i should look for a used one! It would make a decent mobian device I think (though it’s a little low on RAM 8Gb would be amazing)

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          7 months ago

          Try looking at their unofficial Discord server. It’s usually cheaper then on eBay. But ask to test the antenna, some units have issues with that.

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    7 months ago

    Keyboard looks a lot like the one on my now defunct HTC Desire Z, my last physical QWERTY phone… And I miss it too much…Happy to see something like that again! 2011 memories

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      7 months ago

      I keep mine in a closet with other things I’m too attached to throw out.

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        7 months ago

        Me too, it’s with his friends Blue Angel, Jas Jar, Diamond and the good old Nokia 6600

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      7 months ago

      You can run Droidian, which is galium-based (special Android compatibility layer to talk to hardware).

      Running on mainline is also possible, but the support is not great. Here is the PMOS page.