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	chenliangchen	2017-07-24 , 16:06
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Originally Posted by thedead1440

IMO, AOSP should be the OS of choice to ship the device with but are there really enough people wanting a HW keyboard for such a project to be feasible? Also what use does a HW keyboard have on Android?

Virtual keyboards coupled with slim devices mean HW keyboard devices have very little in upside vs the downside of no predictive text, thicker and heavier device etc.

I hold my opinion here:

Even with Android, HW keyboard does have a lot use, for example, under Android 7's split screen, with on screen keyboard it's almost useless because your on-screen keyboard would block almost both contents, but with HW keyboard user can type in one app while look at another, like typing while reading web, this is a huge difference.

And HW keyboard is more accurate and without the fluff of autocorrection, and free up screen content. To me it make a phone phone.

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