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I continue to retain the belief that hardware vendors intentionally killed keyboard sliders by making them worse phones than their non-keyboard counterparts, then claiming they didn't need to build them because nobody wanted them. They sat a full year behind in hardware specs in most cases.

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I don't believe it is the only reason, but it certainly significantly hurt them. They're also less attractive/bulkier, have less room for battery, are more expensive to design/manufacture, have higher failure rates, etc. I would still pay ridiculous amounts for a phone with flagship specs and flagship build quality, with a physical keyboard.

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