Thread 105988535 - /g/ [Archived: 500 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:33:37 PM No.105988535
BlackBerry Bold 9900
BlackBerry Bold 9900
md5: e511ec7389e6fbe0032c5911d6469470🔍
>we will never have smartphones with physical keyboards ever again
fuck, this hurts too much... those BlackBerry phones that I used to have as a kid are fucking beautiful. Just look at them
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:42:06 PM No.105988622
>>105988535 (OP)
Can you not use a search engine?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/titan-2-the-latest-5g-qwerty-physical-keyboard-smartphone
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:45:25 PM No.105988652
>>105988622
This post seems part of a shilling campaign, just giving you a heads up.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:57:16 PM No.105988755
>>105988535 (OP)
This chink company Zinwa is selling a new board with a relatively modern SoC for the Passport, they've done the same for another model as well. Unless you want one of the Unihertz devices this is the best it gets.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 8:17:17 PM No.105990246
BlackBerry Bold 9700
BlackBerry Bold 9700
md5: 17cebd561a9178dfa5c1bd9e65eae690🔍
>>105988652
>>105988622
That looks a lot like a Passport, but uglier. I still prefer the more classic BB look.

>>105988755
>This chink company Zinwa is selling a new board with a relatively modern SoC for the Passport, they've done the same for another model as well.
They got a reworked Classic, which looks really good. Don't know if I would spend 400 dollars on it though, mainly because I don't know anything about them.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 8:19:48 PM No.105990274
I'm going to use my Key2 until I can't any longer. And even then I'm going to look into custom modifications or cloning.

>>105988652
Calling kickstarter a shilling campaign is a little odd. Like I guess in some way but isn't that the entire point of a fund raiser for a product?
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:42:32 PM No.105991243
>>105990274
>Key2
Does that run Android instead of BB's own OS?
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:45:04 PM No.105991276
key2scrollop
key2scrollop
md5: 74cf2eb4af8a32ba8ab055f2ca73b73b🔍
>>105991243
Yeah. And unfortunately stuck on their variant of 8.1.0.
If the bootloader were unlocked it would be an even better device imo.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:48:12 PM No.105991311
BlackBerry Bold 9790
BlackBerry Bold 9790
md5: 9bbe9562f151a65be90fb96ba1549f63🔍
>>105991276
Fuck... I really need to buy one of those older BlackBerrys. I don't know if I want to risk buying one "new" and "sealed" from Ebay. Do you think BB OS will work or should I try and get an Android one?
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:51:26 PM No.105991343
>>105991311
Depends if you prefer QNX/BBOS or non-root Android.
I'm not the biggest fan of Android but considering this is my primary device I practically need to use either Android or IOS.
And even now that's a slight problem, apps like Slack consider 8 to be too old.