Square SingerI designed a keyboard for my phone. Ask me anything :)
DBTI’m pretty sure my first android phone was the Droid and it had a physical keyboard underneath the screen, which slid out to reveal the keyboard. Since on-screen keyboard was also an option, the only time I used the physical keyboard was when I remembered it was an option that I never used.
That may have been different if keyboard shortcuts worked on it. (I don’t know if they did or not, but if they did I didn’t know about it back then)
I had a HTC G1, the first android phone, it had a slide out keyboard, and it was nice. The mechanism was satisfying to fidget with and it was a full 5 row keyboard with enough space you could comfortably type even in a terminal emulator. The screen was small, and the onscreen keyboard at the time sucked for autocorrect.
I’m glad the track ball, and the chin didn’t stick around.