Good News - NYT Recommends Delaying Buying S8
- S8 looks like the best phone on the market. Close second right now would be the g6, also looks really good.
But the keyone is so different it is hard to compare. People who want multimedia would probably go for the Samsung but I feel like the crazy battery life and pkb of the keyone is something no other phone can match!04-19-17 05:55 PMLike 0 - S8 looks like the best phone on the market. Close second right now would be the g6, also looks really good.
But the keyone is so different it is hard to compare. People who want multimedia would probably go for the Samsung but I feel like the crazy battery life and pkb of the keyone is something no other phone can match!04-19-17 06:03 PMLike 0 - Yeah, feels like the KeyOne is going to be the final referendum on the viability of PKB phones going forward. By all indications it has a really good camera, premium feel, nice PKB, good performance, great battery life and a decent price point. If it doesn't sell well, I don't know what else they could do to entice people. I doubt the added delay from April to May is going to have a huge negative impact on their sales overall. It's clearly not a gaming / multimedia phone and is aimed squarely at a niche segment. TCL seems to think they can make it work, hopefully they can.FF22 likes this.04-19-17 06:03 PMLike 1
- Yeah, feels like the KeyOne is going to be the final referendum on the viability of PKB phones going forward. By all indications it has a really good camera, premium feel, nice PKB, good performance, great battery life and a decent price point. If it doesn't sell well, I don't know what else they could do to entice people. I doubt the added delay from April to May is going to have a huge negative impact on their sales overall. It's clearly not a gaming / multimedia phone and is aimed squarely at a niche segment. TCL seems to think they can make it work, hopefully they can.
Posted with my trusty Z1004-20-17 07:35 AMLike 0 - Yeah, feels like the KeyOne is going to be the final referendum on the viability of PKB phones going forward. By all indications it has a really good camera, premium feel, nice PKB, good performance, great battery life and a decent price point. If it doesn't sell well, I don't know what else they could do to entice people. I doubt the added delay from April to May is going to have a huge negative impact on their sales overall. It's clearly not a gaming / multimedia phone and is aimed squarely at a niche segment. TCL seems to think they can make it work, hopefully they can.
Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB1004-20-17 08:42 AMLike 0 - I saw the review of the Samsung Galaxy S8, where the New York Times recommended holding off purchasing the S8, citing some hardware decisions that may not sit well with consumers (i.e locating the fingerprint scanner on the back next to the camera) as well as the unfinished key features, like Bixby. The also threw out the now-ubiquitous safety record of the Note batteries.
This is good news for the KeyOne, especially with the recent delays. I'm not sure how many people this article would influence into waiting to buy the S8, or skipping a purchase all-together, seeing as it's not from a technology-centered publication. But it certainly doesn't hurt.
I really hope that the KeyOne is successful, so that more phones in the future will offer physical keyboards.04-20-17 12:12 PMLike 0 - Tre LawrenceBetween RealitiesIt's kind of a shame that companies like Apple and Samsung have so effectively convinced the masses to think that anything that isn't a glass slab is "uncool." For those of us who still care about accuracy and keyboard shortcuts, out "choices" have become so limited, and soon maybe we won't have any choice at all. Just because everyone else is so desperate to fit in.
Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB10
Apple and Samsung didn't convince anyone of anything, no more than BlackBerry "convinced" folks that pkb devices were better than stylus-entry units way back when.
Slabs work for more people. More people are more productive on slabs than pkb devices.
All Samsung, Apple at al are doing is giving folks what they want to buy.
Thankfully, folks who are into pkbs still have options.xandros9 likes this.04-20-17 03:59 PMLike 1 - That feels like a close-minded narrative.
Apple and Samsung didn't convince anyone of anything, no more than BlackBerry "convinced" folks that pkb devices were better than stylus-entry units way back when.
Slabs work for more people. More people are more productive on slabs than pkb devices.
All Samsung, Apple at al are doing is giving folks what they want to buy.
Thankfully, folks who are into pkbs still have options.
I don't know how many times I need to mention the dozens of people who have come to me when they wanted to buy a new phone either coming from a dumbphone wanting their first smartphone or coming from an old BB, the ones that have told me they absolutely need a physical keyboard, I would inform them if that's their biggest priority there's really only one choice, and yes, I make sure to clarify the app situation to them, and they would be fine with it. all of them except ONE ended up buying either an iphone or Samsung. No other brands, one of those two. And when I asked what happened to "needing" a pkb, they tell me the salesperson told them that was the "cool" or "popular" phone to buy so based on that alone, despite all of their supposed "needs" they went with that, because being socially accepted has become the most important thing to many people.
But hey, I guess you may be right, Samsung and Apple is wasting billions on marketing because the people would have bought their phones anyway because it's what fits their needs best... :-)
Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB1004-20-17 04:26 PMLike 0 - You must be nuts to buy the s8, you can do it all with the s7 with the same camera and 250 euro cheaper
Posted via CB1004-20-17 04:26 PMLike 0 -
I'm not at all saying that most people want a pkb, not at all. Even in my example where I talk about the dozens of people who went with all-touch after claiming they want pkb's because of the popularity aspect, they are still the minority. But just because YOU prefer the all-touch, I'm sure it makes you feel good about yourself that "99.9% of people agree with you." so you're quick to dismiss the idea that marketing from these companies have swayed the opinions of people.
Yep, you guys are all obviously just smarter than us dumbasses who still prefer physical keyboards... :-(
Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB1004-20-17 04:30 PMLike 0 -
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- 04-20-17 06:47 PMLike 1
- The KEYone ain't gonna sell unless BlackBerry mobile do some MAJOR marketing magic to reinvent the brand.
Because it has BlackBerry's name on it - you can forget it.
It also has that keyboard.
Time will tell soon enough.
#qwerty #glassweave #darkhorse04-20-17 07:43 PMLike 0 -
Again, not at all saying the pkb would be the majority's pick if it is not for Apple (mainly) and now Samsung, but they definitely have stacked the numbers far more to that side than it naturally would have been...
Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB10krazyatom likes this.04-20-17 08:00 PMLike 1 - The KEYone ain't gonna sell unless BlackBerry mobile do some MAJOR marketing magic to reinvent the brand.
Because it has BlackBerry's name on it - you can forget it.
It also has that keyboard.
Time will tell soon enough.
#qwerty #glassweave #darkhorse
Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB1004-20-17 08:01 PMLike 0
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