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Blackberry.

I have never had a more efficient handheld for doing what I need to do most, emali and chat/text messages.

The version with the thumbwheel, enabled me to race through messages. I would expect slack to do great on it as well.

It was not very good for web, apps, games, like my current smartphone is, but I think my current smartphone is clumsy and slow when it comes to message and email.

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Old school. I don't think theres enough demand out there to bring it back tbh. Even though there are still many passionate ex-users - and maybe current users. Touch screens have proven to be far superior as they serve both input and output purposes.

I agree that touchscreens are more prevalent but disagree that they are superior. Having something tactile for a phone is useful and should be brought back. I was discussing the same thing with how cars are moving to only touchscreens.

The problem ends up being you don't know where to touch without looking at it. Imagine having a touchscreen keyboard on your laptop. You'd have to look down to verify where you were.

If you’re as unlucky as me to use a Touch Bar MacBook Pro, you already at least partially have this problem.

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