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> the coolest way would be, if the phone display is only as large as the current phones minus the keyboard, and then a physical keyboard beneath it. The phone would be physically as large as the phones today and you would have a superior typing experience.

iOS Reachability, but pinned to top of display?

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-reachability-iph1...

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Kind of, though in my testing Reachability seems to just hide the bottom anyway rather than having the app resize.

With things like this I just keep thinking about how much more potential we would have for innovation if handheld computers allowed the same kind of extensibility that all computers did 25 years ago. Today, only Apple, Google, or the OEM of an Android phone could enable such a behavior by explicitly providing an API for it (and explicitly blessing the software that uses it), so it just won't happen.

Yes, and then there could be a keyboard flips around to the black part

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