Join us on Discord!
You can help CodeWalrus stay online by donating here.

Touchscreen Phones - who hates them?

Started by kotu, August 16, 2016, 05:41:54 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

kotu

I hate touchscreen phones

I want buttons on my phone which I can press

Does anyone else on here hate touchscreen phones?

(-_(//));
  • Calculators owned: TI 84+CE-T
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Sega Master System, Sony PlayStation 3
SUBSCRIBE TO THE FUTURERAVE.UK MAILING LIST
http://futurerave.uk

Yuki

Probably my grandparents. The interface is too confusing, it crashes all the time when you want to do the basic function of phoning, and even then it's confusing... Yeah, flip phones are better for elderly people, and that's why it still sells.
  • Calculators owned: TI-83+ (dead?), Casio Prizm (also dead???)
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: A lot
Read Zarmina!
YUKI-CHAAAANNNN
In the beginning there was walrii. In the end there will be walrii. All hail our supreme leader :walrii: --Snektron

if you wanna throw money at me and/or CodeWalrus monthly it's here

kotu

The point of this thread is not to make me look old

Anyone else?
  • Calculators owned: TI 84+CE-T
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Sega Master System, Sony PlayStation 3
SUBSCRIBE TO THE FUTURERAVE.UK MAILING LIST
http://futurerave.uk

Yuki

Hehe. Probably @DJ Omnimaga too, he really liked his old Android phone with a physical keyboard and actual buttons and got all jealous when he saw @Patrick Davidson's one with a keyboard on it when we met him.
  • Calculators owned: TI-83+ (dead?), Casio Prizm (also dead???)
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: A lot
Read Zarmina!
YUKI-CHAAAANNNN
In the beginning there was walrii. In the end there will be walrii. All hail our supreme leader :walrii: --Snektron

if you wanna throw money at me and/or CodeWalrus monthly it's here

c4ooo

Me.
Any way to hook up a SIM card to a PC?

Yuki

Quote from: c4ooo on August 16, 2016, 06:46:46 AM
Me.
Any way to hook up a SIM card to a PC?
There is ways to use your phone from your computer, yeah. If you use an iPhone and a Mac, well it's integrated, for Android it's probably somewhat more shady.
  • Calculators owned: TI-83+ (dead?), Casio Prizm (also dead???)
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: A lot
Read Zarmina!
YUKI-CHAAAANNNN
In the beginning there was walrii. In the end there will be walrii. All hail our supreme leader :walrii: --Snektron

if you wanna throw money at me and/or CodeWalrus monthly it's here

c4ooo

#6
Nah I mean like actually connect your sim to your PC via USB or something and have software on the PC do the calling.

Edit: also I really wish touch screen phones had left/right/up/down arrows on the keyboard it's so hard to get the curser in the right position X.X

kotu

Quote from: c4ooo on August 16, 2016, 06:52:02 AM
Nah I mean like actually connect your sim yo your PC via USB or something and have software on the PC do the calling.
you dont like touchscreens either?
  • Calculators owned: TI 84+CE-T
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Sega Master System, Sony PlayStation 3
SUBSCRIBE TO THE FUTURERAVE.UK MAILING LIST
http://futurerave.uk

Yuki

Eh, sometimes I do feel my fingers are really too big for the screen. And the swipe action is sometimes shady. And I have small fingers. And a low-end phone.
  • Calculators owned: TI-83+ (dead?), Casio Prizm (also dead???)
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: A lot
Read Zarmina!
YUKI-CHAAAANNNN
In the beginning there was walrii. In the end there will be walrii. All hail our supreme leader :walrii: --Snektron

if you wanna throw money at me and/or CodeWalrus monthly it's here

c4ooo

You could build your own touch screen phone with an arduino :P

Unicorn

PatrickD's phone wasn't a modified Ti 85? :trollface:

But on topic, I like them, but the typing inter face is pretty terrible.
  • Calculators owned: I own all of them: PICKACHUP TI 84+ CSE TI 83+ SE TI something something ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: PICKACHUP ??? ??? ??? ??? ???



??? ??? ??? ??? ???

Yuki

Quote from: c4ooo on August 16, 2016, 06:56:06 AM
You could build your own touch screen phone with an arduino :P
I'd better do that with a Raspberry Pi.

Quote from: Unicorn on August 16, 2016, 06:58:31 AM
PatrickD's phone wasn't a modified Ti 85? :trollface:

But on topic, I like them, but the typing inter face is pretty terrible.
I always use Hacker's Keyboard, I have the whole PC keyboard, except the keys are ridiculously small. Or you can always get a Bluetooth keyboard, it always work.
  • Calculators owned: TI-83+ (dead?), Casio Prizm (also dead???)
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: A lot
Read Zarmina!
YUKI-CHAAAANNNN
In the beginning there was walrii. In the end there will be walrii. All hail our supreme leader :walrii: --Snektron

if you wanna throw money at me and/or CodeWalrus monthly it's here

kotu

Quote from: Juju on August 16, 2016, 07:00:53 AM
....... Or you can always get a Bluetooth keyboard, it always work.
hahahahahahahahaha
  • Calculators owned: TI 84+CE-T
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Sega Master System, Sony PlayStation 3
SUBSCRIBE TO THE FUTURERAVE.UK MAILING LIST
http://futurerave.uk

Unicorn

oh yeah, someone ha posted picture of one for his rasberry pi on cemetech, I wanted to buy it. :P

Also, I could turn my TI keyboard into an andriod one once I get it working as a computer one :D
  • Calculators owned: I own all of them: PICKACHUP TI 84+ CSE TI 83+ SE TI something something ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: PICKACHUP ??? ??? ??? ??? ???



??? ??? ??? ??? ???

Dream of Omnimaga

Quote from: kotu on August 16, 2016, 06:15:24 AM
The point of this thread is not to make me look old
Making you look old might be hard considering how old certain forum members are :P

I don't like touchscreen keyboards, but I like touchscreen controls for browsing, as long as finger detection isn't off like on older iOS devices. For keyboards I miss the small keypad that my old Samsung i5510 had. Sadly, that phone was so slow and outdated and nowadays they barely do any Android-based phones with such keypad anymore. For browsing and clicking stuff I am fine, though, even to the point where I got used so much to touchscreen controls that on my TI-Nspire CX or TI-84 Plus CE I sometimes try to click stuff on the screen with my fingers, only to realize that those calcs don't have touch screens. <_<
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

Powered by EzPortal