[kwlug-disc] Minimal Phone with a real keyboard and a command line

[Ron]

Steve Izma wrote on 2026-09-07 19:48:
> I've had the first version of this for a couple of years. It has the 
> best phone keyboard I've tried.

I imagine the physical keyboard could be handy for CLI stuff (as Doug 
alluded to), but have you (or other list members) checked out the 
"Swipe" technique of using a virtual keyboard?


I'd heard people rave about Swype, the app, for ages before I enabled 
Swipe on GBoard. Took a day or two to learn to use it, but I can't 
imagine pressing individual keys being faster, and there's *never* a 
typo (although incorrect words slip through when I let my guard down).


TL;DR on Swipe:

Place your finger on (or near) the first letter of a word, drag it to 
(or near) subsequent letters, and it magically figures out which word 
you probably meant.

Seems more accurate the longer the word is, aiding literacy instead of 
impeding it.

Truly feels magical.
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