There is lots of weird Android stuff on AliExpress.
- ASUS is on it's 5th? gaming focused phone (with attachable fan and all) [1]
- You have folding, flipping and stretching [2] phones
- You still have plenty of great niche hardware keyboard phones [3]
The issue is that these mostly fill niches, as the majority of people are happy enough having the a clean simple phone.
[1] https://rog.asus.com/phones/rog-phone-model/
Oh my god you're not kidding.
Possibly you mention about some manufacturer that advertises vapor chamber as "water cooling". I don't like their advertisement because it's just a improved heat pipe.
I'd completely despaired of ever finding a modern smartphone with a full physical keyboard on it. It's been 8 years since I had one.
Now to do some research and find a US carrier that it'll work with.
Back in 2007 there was a period where I was doing a lot of work on deployed standalone application servers at remote client sites, some of which had little to no internet connection.
We'd audit servers before I traveled and send me with the "right software patches", but it didn't always work out perfectly and tethering was pretty primitive back then.
I loved being able to call someone, have them check something out of sourcesafe, then throw it up on one of our servers, where I could SSH in from my phone, grab files, edit them, then shove them on my MicroSD card, pull that, shove it in a USB adapter and patch an install for a server with no internet connection.
SUPER hinky by today's standards, but it felt pretty amazing at the time.
Plenty? In what way? There seems to be one company that makes a keyboard phone with outdated CPUs and other hardware, to make ends meet and be able to produce such a phone economically.
https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator
https://www.techradar.com/news/new-blackberry-5g-phone-with-...