My favorite phone was the Galaxy S Relay, which featured a sliding, 5-row thumbboard. Numbers, letters, period, comma, and question mark were all available without alt or fn keys. The number row had !@$#%^&*() with the shift key, just like actual keyboards.
It even had four arrow keys for cursor navigation!
Special characters suck in on-screen keyboards, and the bastards rarely gave us physical thumboards.
Not as much as they do on physical keyboards with their “hold alt-gr and hope” approach.
My favorite phone was the Galaxy S Relay, which featured a sliding, 5-row thumbboard. Numbers, letters, period, comma, and question mark were all available without alt or fn keys. The number row had !@$#%^&*() with the shift key, just like actual keyboards.
It even had four arrow keys for cursor navigation!
I absolutely loved that phone.
I guess I was thinking of “special characters” like Ł, ñ, ă and such.