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Late lament on the death of slide-out keyboardsPreview
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2015-02-23 21:27
I still have my Nokia N900 slider! Maybe I could ebay it! (although the battery has long since died and would bneed to be replaced) The Debian GNU/Linux Maemo distro with a GTK+ DE predated both Apple iOS and Android by many many years.
But as a user of a sliding keyboard phone, I was always petrified that I would break it. So many moving parts made of tiny plastic pieces - I'm sure if I would have dropped the phone1, it would have exploded into hundreds of tiny shards.
1 I did install the app "N900 Fly" that used the accelerometer to measure how far up in the air you could hurl the phone.MAlas, my personal score was not able to place in the top scores list.
But as a user of a sliding keyboard phone, I was always petrified that I would break it. So many moving parts made of tiny plastic pieces - I'm sure if I would have dropped the phone1, it would have exploded into hundreds of tiny shards.
1 I did install the app "N900 Fly" that used the accelerometer to measure how far up in the air you could hurl the phone.
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