Those were something, weren’t they? I thought it was the coolest thing ever as a kid, just the absolute peak of technology.
And in hindsight… Yeah, it was a pretty comfortable way to play videos and music, wasn’t it? And the click wheel iPods even had a surprisingly decent selection of games.
While I’m here, whatever happened to those Kindle e-readers with the physical page turn buttons and keyboard? I kinda feel like they stopped selling those, but I feel like that was kind of preferable to a touch screen, too.
I guess just in general I don’t like touch screens and it’ll be a good day when they stop being integrated into things that don’t actually need them. I’m out here thinking that flip phones beat smartphones still
Bring back the slide out physical keyboards on phones.
Actually, one thing I will concede is that I do really like Dessalines’ Thumb-key. There is a certain level of satisfaction that comes from a physical keyboard, but flick input is also pretty satisfying in its own way… Alas, if only there were a way to have the best of both worlds, right?
This but with a smartphone and I’m good on mobile forever.