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Why for. ? Maybe what would be better is a VR keyboard. If it can give haptic feedback then do you really need a physical board
The issue is I can touch type / hunt and peck with a physical keyboard, and I never accidentally type something by brushing my finger on the key as I pass. It's just much faster.
I cannot type worth a shit on the touch keyboard on my Z4, despite it being roughly double the size of the touch keyboard on my first touch-only phone. Hell, I could finger type better on my resistive touch, single point only, meant-to-be-used-with-a-stylus WinCE PDA back in the day. I think this has to do with the edges of the screen being too damn close to the physical edge of the device, so there's no decent way to simultaneously hold it without dropping it and contort your fingers into the quintuple jointed clawlike posture required to hit the lower row and spacebar.
And I bought my original Z Play on the promise of a physical keyboard Moto Mod, which turned out to be vaporware. Yes, I'm still pissed off about that.
Modern bezeless phones may look all swanky and futuristic sitting there on display in the store but they're a step backwards in actual usability. I would take a slider or even a clamshell with a physical QWERTY keyboard any day.
Omg HARD same.
I really wish creators would stop shifting the goalposts on everything and just make what they said they would. It doesn't need to be balanced, it doesn't need a battery, it just needs to exist.