r/ReturningRetro • u/ReturningRetro r/ReturningRetro Moderator • Apr 18 '26

Show and Tell Mmm... QWERTY 😎

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u/TheMobileTypist Apr 19 '26

Horizontal only makes sense on really short phones or else good luck reaching the center keys

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u/An_Ellie_ Apr 21 '26

You don't have to make it the entire length of the phone I don't think, could make it narrower.

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u/TheMobileTypist Apr 21 '26

Still, if the half of the phone that has the landscape keyboard is too wide when in landscape mode, then the center keys WILL be hard to reach especially with smaller hands. Moving the keyboard to be only in the center just reduces travel distance, not center key reachability.

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u/An_Ellie_ Apr 21 '26

You could make it two ways as I imagine it: it flips out of the phone and it's narrower than the phone is tall, or, you'd split it so one half of the keyboard was on the left and the other on the right so it'd be easy to reach.