Personally I think the ZenPhone 9 series looked very sleek and cool - especially the in red colour choice. zenhphne9

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    I agree. I realise it is a niche market, keyboard phones, but there are still people out there that want them and they seem to be hooking into that market.

    Their software isnt the best but I’m hoping in time it will become more refined along with the keyboards getting better with each iteration. BlackBerry had a lot more practice by the time of the passport and key devices so here’s hoping at least one company will fill that gap left behind.

    • nicgentile@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 day ago

      There is a solid Lineage (build) that is floating around that is regularly updated. Been too lazy to do up my phone but now I have incentive.

      • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        I know there were a few custom ROMs that took advantage of some of the blackberry apps n such for the original Titan series of phones but j could never get the boot loader to unlock on my original titan so I was always stuck with what they supplied which was fairly lacklustre and was what ultimately pushed me away from the phone.

        • nicgentile@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 day ago

          Well, if you ever fancy another go, there is a Discord community that helps with such situations. That is how I am planning on de-Googling, once I stop being lazy.

          • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 day ago

            The discord community is where I was getting all my information from. I’m sure it has moved on a bit now as this was a few years ago and whilst I do still have the phone I’ll probably wait to get the new one and then I’ll play around.

            Ive been running graphene the last 3 years now and I don’t want to go back to google so once I get the titan 2 I’m going to try my best to get some form of Linux going on it. I fucking hate this touchscreen though so I can’t wait!