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Great choice of outer hardware. My old E63 was the last phone I had where I could legitimately touch type, and I still miss it.

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I had a Nokia E72. Fabulous 'phone that I finally replaced with the iPhone SE (2016), the last iPhone with a headphone jack, (and thus the last one worth buying).

I have an Astro Slide on order, so I shall be returning to a keyboard 'phone, but one that is rather larger:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...

Wow, yeah I loved that phone. I'm surprised you kept it so long! I replaced mine with an HTC G1. I would love a phone like the E72 again.

I had the e61. Also a lovely piece of hardware. Lasted a long time until the feature phones tarted dying.

I had a Singapore version of the E61, which included WiFi (unlike the US versions of the E61 where I live), and cosmetically was all-silver color (no odd-looking gray buttons).

It was such nice physical hardware, one could type messages very rapidly. It was also very durable. (I bounced it off pavement 2-3 times, and literally only got a few scratches.)

I would love a solid trustworthy opensource Linux handheld in pretty much that exact hardware physical keyboard design. I'm primarily interested in WiFi, but (isolated) cellular would also be nice, and maybe LoRa transceiver hardware would come in handy someday.

> literally only got a few scratches

The pavement, you mean?

> The pavement, you mean?

I think the pavement just disappeared on contact.

Mine was the Sony Ericsson M600i and then P1i: the rocker dual-letter QWERTY was the absolutely best input method I’ve used on a phone.

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