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Comment by grenoire | Hacker News Reader

Looking at the reviews on the T-Mobile website, you can't type using the number pad. That's an insane oversight!

Google have been delaying reviews of apps that accept keys.

Go on, plug a keyboard (or use a phone with a qwerty keyboard. ha!) and try ctrl+t, or ctrl+w on firefox android to manage tabs...

If you are on any version past 78, it won't work.

I guess google call it bot-enablement-features. or they just really hate people with disabilities. ...it you remove these functions, app reviews fly trhu in comparisson.

thankfully they don't seem to impact keyboards which all still support ctrl+a/c/x/v... the day that is gone i will probably even consider apple.

linux phones can't be ready soon enough

we need them ASAP!

Is there any source / data on that? I haven't noticed such a difference between our apps.

This is a dealbreaker if true.

This link says it comes with a T9 keyboard called “Kika” and other installable T9 keyboards exist: https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/comments/qfr6rc/one_mont...

Wait, what? So how do you type? Minuscule touch keyboard on the screen?

Edit, yes, here's a video.[1] The thing is also a lot bigger and thicker in the hands than I realized.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVzuT6eYZUA

At https://youtu.be/GVzuT6eYZUA?t=107 he types with the keyboard

Watching that video the phone was a lot bigger than I thought, I was hoping for something compact but this thing is really chonky.

If you look at the screen, the only thing he "types" at that timestamp is one "#", then he presses the screen with his thumb, then a types "##########"

I'm pretty sure you never see him typing letters.

No, that was at a previous part of the video. Look at the timestamp I posted.

The parent comment's link goes directly to a portion of the video where he types "fdro" and then taps on the "F-Droid" search result.

A bit after that he switches to a keyboard called "Kika" which appears to enable typing with the keypad and provides predictions. A bigger objection to this device to me would be the fact that UI animations appear to chug like a freshman at his first kegger and overall it doesn't look to be all that responsive.

You know after watching a couple of times I realized the chonkyness is partially an optical illusion. The bevel on the top of the screen makes it look like a huge box from the camera angle you bookmarked in your link.

That video clearly shows the user typing using the number pad. So no worries there. I agree, if that were not possible, that would be a little bit silly. This is a perfect example of why I never trust reviews. People are either just really stupid, or they are fake/ paid for.

I think they meant letters, in the video I only see him typing numbers from the phone keypad. I think they person you replied to is talking about T9/pressing-the-number-X-times-to-get-a-letter type things.

Yeah the [Freetel Mushashi](https://www.gsmchoice.com/en/catalogue/freetel/musashi/) had it back in the day, so it's possible but apparently not implemented.

Video shows letter input from the keypad.

https://youtu.be/GVzuT6eYZUA?t=107

It definitely big, but there are some clues in the video that the presenter may be a fairly short person as well. So the fact that it looks huge in his hands may have something to do with his hands and not entirely the phone's fault.

They're wrong, I can do T9 typing with the numbers just fine on mine, and switch to a touchscreen keyboard if I want to also. Just wish it was faster to switch between them.

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