London startup F (x) tec launches smartphone with slide out keyboard

[Anonymous]

http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/2019/09/06/ifa-2019-london-startup-fxtec-unveils-key-board-sliding-sm...

Haven't we been here before?

Time to crank up the Shirley Bassey/Propellerheads track 'History repeating'?

[Anonymous]

'tis why I prefer a full size keyboard but they aren't too portable so that's not practical.

[AnnieM]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

I actually like it. Without keep droning on about age, I manage far better with a proper keyboard.

I have never been able to reach the giddy heights of knocking out info on a smartphone using two hands. I watch my grandson with mouth agape when he multitasks with both hands on his phone!

Watching F1 with him last weekend and he had one eye on the race whilst knocking out an email to his boss regarding a project he was working on.

I just couldn't believe the speed of it all

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I am fascinated by my daughter typing at speed on her phone without looking at it. I can do that on a computer keyboard most of the time, but how do you know where you are on a tiny touchscreen?! 

[Cleoriff]

I can't even do it on a PC keyboard @AnnieM . I have to watch what I'm typing

Unlike nurses of today, we didn't use any electronic devices when I was nursing....we just ran everywhere

[jonsie]

....and they still run everywhere whist scribbling notes on patient bed charts!

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

....and they still run everywhere whist scribbling notes on patient bed charts!

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Yes, but most of the senior staff and those in charge of wards and depts have phones and Tablets now

[jonsie]

It's the overworked minions that I feel for though.

[Cleoriff]

*coughs*...I was always overworked, even when I went up the so called 'career ladder'

[jonsie]

Us patients don't notice that though