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

[o1bigtenor]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 1:59 PM Ron <ron at bclug.ca> wrote:
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> Steve Izma wrote on 2026-09-07 19:48:
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> I've had the first version of this for a couple of years. It has
> the best phone keyboard I've tried.
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> 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?
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> 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).
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> TL;DR on Swipe:
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> 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.
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> Seems more accurate the longer the word is, aiding literacy instead of impeding it.
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> Truly feels magical.
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Wow - - -  pretty soon you will just have to say the words (at least
they were promising this in about 1980 0r so!!).