interesting smartphones - eviltoast

As much as I don’t like full qwerty keyboards on smartphones the punkt and blackberries look nice. Recently took a look at punkt and I do find their phones pleasing to the eye and also simple so for a simple business phone it would serve well.

  • SparkleWagon @lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is that Punkt phone a real product? I kind of love it, it reminds me of a nicer version of the OG Kindle Keyboard.

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      1 year ago

      MC01, a passport-sized smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard and an exquisite minimalist design. The MC01 never made it to market because - as Kevin pointed out in his story - of industry constraints but it had a strong resonance with readers, sparking a conversation among the community about the need for a device with a physical keyboard and a privacy-centric operating system. punkt.ch

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately I looked for that exact model and couldn’t find it. :(((

      • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Well your album cover is easy to find, the Punkt phone. Obviously everyone knows what a blackberry was. The remainder of your images…I’ve no idea what I’m looking at. The top one and blue one look cool, but probably 10 years old if I had to guess. Do you know what they are?

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          1 year ago

          Blue one is a Blackberry, but you can barely see the logo and the first one I have no idea.

          Unless you meant the tial than I have no idea.

          EDIT: Sorry I’m tired and need to head off to bed. I really just post whatever I find cool. Hoping to soon be able to share some of my own stuff. 👀👀👀

  • Exeous@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would love some qwerty keyboard phones… they’re so much easier to text with.

    Off topic question - on Memmy and I can only view 2 images out of what says is a 6 image album… advice?

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    1 year ago

    I kept using my BlackBerry for as long as I could because of the physical keyboard. The Passport was the best phone I’ve ever used, such a unique device. Got a lot of looks and questions whenever I would be using it. Completely unrelated, but, a weird thing I notice sometimes is tech sites using stock images of a BlackBerry Playbook as a generic tablet for articles.

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    1 year ago

    The Nokia N97 was brilliant to use for typing, the OS was just torture and the screen brightness was woeful.

    I think it was one of the first true flops that signalled the end of Nokia dominance.