At least the keyboards themselves get love in the hacker community. We sure do miss phones with real keyboards though, and would love to see them come back. We never had one ourselves during the heyday, though we did pick up a cheap used model to carry around as a tiny mobile writing device and calendar. Though this news may not mean much except to a select few, it’s still sad to see the Blackberry era come to a true end. But back then, the people who used them were texting wizards who had broken free from the chains of the T9 keyboard. Unless you’re old enough to remember, it may seem strange that these half-screen, half-keyboard machines once dominated the mobile market. In official terms, they are ending network provisioning for these older devices, meaning that they won’t be able to join any cellular or WiFi networks. On January 4th, Blackberry will be shutting off all the key services - data, SMS, phone calls, and 911 support. What does this mean? While they won’t be bricking phones outright, they might as well be. The company that has so often had their products compared to a certain addictive substance recently announced that they are ending support for Blackberry OS and Blackberry 10 devices. Happy New Year, though it may not be for Blackberry fans. If this looks like a familiar reuse of a BlackBerry keyboard, you might be remembering ’s Keyboard Featherwing or this LoRa Messenger.Ĭontinue reading “Beepberry Brings Memory LCD And A Physical Keyboard To Your Pi” → Posted in blackberry hacks, handhelds hacks Tagged blackberry, keyboard, messaging, mobile messaging, physical keyboard, pi zero, raspberry pi, RPi stresses this is currently a dev board and by no means should be assumed to be an off-the-shelf piece of kit.
Add a DSP and headphone jack and this could be a neat little pianobar player. If you want to eschew the distraction-free nature of the device, since it’s Pi-powered it can run any ARM Linux programs you might want as well being a playground for hardware mods. As this is a collaboration with the Matrix-based chat service Beeper, the device is designed around the CLI version of their client. As the 2020s are seeing the return of the flip phone, could we see a rebirth of other device form factors from before the slab era? and are working on a new physical keyboard device with the Beepberry.įeaturing a high contrast Sharp Memory LCD and the tried-and-true reliability of a BlackBerry keyboard, the device is designed for messaging all your contacts over WiFi without the distractions of a smartphone.
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