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:There are, but they're mostly redundant. When on the go, how would you juggle a phone AND a keyboard? When back home, why not use a big screen with a keyboard instead of a tiny one with same? -- [[User:Malgond|Malgond]] ([[User talk:Malgond|talk]]) 05:55, 30 July 2019 (UTC) | :There are, but they're mostly redundant. When on the go, how would you juggle a phone AND a keyboard? When back home, why not use a big screen with a keyboard instead of a tiny one with same? -- [[User:Malgond|Malgond]] ([[User talk:Malgond|talk]]) 05:55, 30 July 2019 (UTC) | ||
::More and more people only have a cell phone and don't have a computer at home. Of course, it's unlikely those would bother with figuring out how to attach a full-sized keyboard and/or cast their screen to a large display anyway; if those were important to them, they would probably opt for a regular computer anyway. Either way, probably not worth adding to the main page. [[User:N0lqu|-boB]] ([[User talk:N0lqu|talk]]) 14:22, 30 July 2019 (UTC) | ::More and more people only have a cell phone and don't have a computer at home. Of course, it's unlikely those would bother with figuring out how to attach a full-sized keyboard and/or cast their screen to a large display anyway; if those were important to them, they would probably opt for a regular computer anyway. Either way, probably not worth adding to the main page. [[User:N0lqu|-boB]] ([[User talk:N0lqu|talk]]) 14:22, 30 July 2019 (UTC) | ||
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::Some phones have a physical keyboard built-in, such as the [https://igg.me/at/geminipda Gemini] and [https://igg.me/at/gogocosmo Cosmo Communicator]. As a happy owner of the former, I can vouch for how easy it is to generate as well as consume ‘content’ on a phone. PS. You'll never guess what I'm typing this on… [[User:Gidds|Gidds]] ([[User talk:Gidds|talk]]) 16:07, 30 July 2019 (UTC) | ::Some phones have a physical keyboard built-in, such as the [https://igg.me/at/geminipda Gemini] and [https://igg.me/at/gogocosmo Cosmo Communicator]. As a happy owner of the former, I can vouch for how easy it is to generate as well as consume ‘content’ on a phone. PS. You'll never guess what I'm typing this on… [[User:Gidds|Gidds]] ([[User talk:Gidds|talk]]) 16:07, 30 July 2019 (UTC) | ||
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| + | :::True, and for my first smartphone I insisted on a model with a built-in keyboard (the original Motorola Droid) because I didn't trust virtual keyboards, however it was a miniature keyboard so it didn't have much size advantage over the virtual keyboard, and couldn't do things the virtual keyboard could do like changing layouts (alpha vs numeric vs symbols vs emoji), predictive choices (click here if the word you've started typing is this word), etc. Now I don't bother looking for phones with built-in physical keyboards. Looks like the Gemini you got does have a full-sized keyboard, at the expense of missing lots of symbol keys a "standard" keyboard would have, so you're definitely closer to the ease of using a full keyboard. [[User:N0lqu|-boB]] ([[User talk:N0lqu|talk]]) 17:21, 30 July 2019 (UTC) | ||
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Should be added to Category:Jurassic Park. PvOberstein (talk) 17:09, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
There are ways to type into your phone using your computer keyboard. Should we add that piece of info to the explanation? FlavianusEP (talk) 19:47, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
- There are, but they're mostly redundant. When on the go, how would you juggle a phone AND a keyboard? When back home, why not use a big screen with a keyboard instead of a tiny one with same? -- Malgond (talk) 05:55, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
- More and more people only have a cell phone and don't have a computer at home. Of course, it's unlikely those would bother with figuring out how to attach a full-sized keyboard and/or cast their screen to a large display anyway; if those were important to them, they would probably opt for a regular computer anyway. Either way, probably not worth adding to the main page. -boB (talk) 14:22, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
- Some phones have a physical keyboard built-in, such as the Gemini and Cosmo Communicator. As a happy owner of the former, I can vouch for how easy it is to generate as well as consume ‘content’ on a phone. PS. You'll never guess what I'm typing this on… Gidds (talk) 16:07, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
- True, and for my first smartphone I insisted on a model with a built-in keyboard (the original Motorola Droid) because I didn't trust virtual keyboards, however it was a miniature keyboard so it didn't have much size advantage over the virtual keyboard, and couldn't do things the virtual keyboard could do like changing layouts (alpha vs numeric vs symbols vs emoji), predictive choices (click here if the word you've started typing is this word), etc. Now I don't bother looking for phones with built-in physical keyboards. Looks like the Gemini you got does have a full-sized keyboard, at the expense of missing lots of symbol keys a "standard" keyboard would have, so you're definitely closer to the ease of using a full keyboard. -boB (talk) 17:21, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
