![]() ![]() The learning curve was ridiculous for anyone coming from a touchscreen. Combine this with the keyboard’s sticky, tiny keys and high separator bars between them, and the whole thing was awkward and unrewarding to type on. Ergonomics was clearly a banned word when designing this awful phone it was badly balanced, heavy, and poorly laid out. It was the keyboard, and considering the brand we’re talking about, this was a crime. The fact it was too expensive upon release wasn’t the problem. BlackBerry tried appealing to grumpy fans who hated modern phones that had moved on, and it really showed on the KeyOne. ![]() With a tiny screen and a physical keyboard, it was a hateful throwback to when times were different. But in 2017, the BlackBerry KeyOne didn’t even begin to try. By 2015, when the Priv came out, that big screen was an essential on any smartphone. The interesting BlackBerry Priv was the first Android phone from the brand, and it tried to combine what made BlackBerry phones special - the physical keyboard - with a big screen. What a complicated history BlackBerry had with Android. BlackBerry KeyOne Andy Boxall/Digital Trends Making them look decent is as important as having good battery life, and the Pixel 4 failed at both. We carry these phones all day, every day. The Pixel 4 was a great performer, so why not invest some effort into making it look good too? Thankfully, Google realized this when it launched the Pixel 6 series, and continued the trend with the Pixel 7. There’s hiding your light under a bushel, and then there’s digging a six-foot hole under the bushel, burying the light, and then taking the bushel away too. The fact that the Pixel 4 is so desperately boring to look at ruined the phone for me. The names given to the colors - Clearly White, Just Black, and Oh So Orange - by a team of marketers that thought they were amusing, still make me cringe. Google even managed to make the glass back feel cheap and unpleasant. Flat on the back, flat on the front, and with massive bezels around the screen. It’s easily one of the dullest, least attractive phones I’ve seen, with almost no creativity in the design at all. I hate the Pixel 4 because of the way it looks. I tested the Galaxy S23 Ultra and iPhone 14 Pro cameras. How the iPhone became the most boring phone you can buy in 2023 I love the Galaxy S23 - here are 5 things the iPhone still does better ![]()
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