[smush]

> especially the affordance for a physical keyboard,

I'm considering an Fxtec Pro1 or Blackberry Key2 exactly because they have hardware keyboards.

I still don't have muscle memory with on-screen keyboards, or if I do, it doesn't work properly due to the lack of physical cues.

[mrguyorama]

I'm so pissed that didn't exist one year ago. Cheaper than I paid for my Pixel 2XL (damn name brand tax), physical keyboard, headphone jack, real features I could actually use.

The worst part is that I just dinged my Pixel's screen, so I could actually think about getting a new phone, but it's so wrong to me to buy a brand new phone one year later

[jplayer01]

I'm also considering the Fxtec. Blackberry is out for me because of the locked bootloader.

I've been using smartphones since 2010. I still haven't gotten used to SW keyboards and at this point I'm fairly sure I never will. They're so inaccurate and terrible, I don't understand why people are okay with them.

[schoen]

The Key2's keyboard has vertically stacked rather than staggered keys, so Q is directly above A, and A is directly above Z. This takes some additional time to get used to.