So my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 arrived and it’s ENORMOUS. It’s as big as my head, almost. It is so funny how just a few years ago everybody wanted their phone to be as tiny as possible, and now it has all gone in the opposite direction. Now it’s prestigious for a phone to be closer in size to a tablet.
I don’t know what I will do now with my smallish handbags because this phone will not fit in them. I hope that, at least, blogging will be easy from the new phone. It has a small pen, and all. I will feel very chic with this phone.
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How did you get over needing a keyboard?
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Good question! The Samsung Glide I’ve been using for the past 2 years has a keyboard but it is pretty much unusable. There is something deeply wrong with this model because it just switches you to a gazillion of apps opening in rapid succession when you try to use the keyboard. So the Samsung Glide with a keyboard paradoxically weaned me off the need to use keyboards. And, as we can see, the number of posts hasn’t diminished. 🙂 🙂
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This is completely unrelated, but I can’t find the proper page for my request.
Clarissa, I’d like to read your password-protected posts. Can I have a password? And how does it work?
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I need an email address to send it. Is the one you left in the comment field valid?
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Find a Think Outside/iGo Sierra Stowaway folding Bluetooth keyboard — they’re compatible with nearly all of the kit made since 2000 that supports Bluetooth HID, and mine has worked with my three previous phones plus several PDAs (remember those “boxy but good” horrors?) …
These keyboards are a bit pricey because they’re no longer manufactured, but even my relatively new Super Secret Squirrel Droidphone can cope with mine, which of course is one of its virtues. You can probably find one for sale that isn’t full of toasted bagel bits and other detritus on Amazon.
Instead of being folding plastic junk, the outer shell is made of reasonably decent aluminium and the keyboard itself takes a pair of AAA batteries, so you can almost always top it up in a hurry. There’s a little stand so you can stick a mobile device against it — I find that my chunky Super Secret Squirrel Droidphone works best on its side with auto-rotation turned on.
I prefer to feed mine lithium batteries for the same reason that obnoxious gearheads prefer to feed their vehicles top-grade petrol.
Your mileage will undoubtedly vary. 🙂
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