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Honestly, it sucked a bit. The keyboard deteriorated quickly and I couldn't touch-type without looking at the screen like I did on real BlackBerries. (Plus, it didn't handle accents nor writing in Catalan well :( Also I had my second swollen battery last week, so I decided to ditch it.
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I don't know. Now I have a Pixel 9A and I should play with the Linux VM feature. It should be possible to run Firefox for Linux, which would then support keyboard shortcuts. But even though the Pixel has 8gb of RAM and the processor feels snappy, I suspect it will suck a bit. But really if Linux applications could handle well a physical keyboard...
Yeah, I think it's sad that we had beautiful phones with a physical keyboard as late as in 2018 with the Key2, but no one bought them... and people are slowly realizing that... maybe keyboards on phones are good. I see that Google is adding more and more physical keyboard features to Android, so perhaps some day...
Although my preferred way would be if services such as WhatsApp didn't force people to use iOS or Android, and using niche OSes on niche phones was more viable.