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How? His phone was still thicker than phones now and that doesn't have a cover.
The Priv wasn't. Read the entire post. The Priv from Blackberry/TCL had a slider keyboard and altogether was 9.5mm thick. My current Moto G Power 5G is 8.5. An iPhone 16 is 8.25. This is not an appreciable difference.
Obviously there's not any technical reason anyone couldn't make a modern slider as thin as current slates, it's just that with the discontinuation of the Priv nobody does. And that's not even getting into fixed keyboard designs.
And imagine how much they sacrificed to make it 9.5mm. Not to mention that phone is an outlier (and the iphone 16 is actually 7.8mm). Priorities changed, phones now need more space for things like a bigger battery, better cameras, bigger heatsinks for faster performance and less throttling.
There are technical reasons. You can't just put in a sliding keyboard on a modern phone and expect it to work the same. They'll have to cut on so much to fit that without being too thick, and in the end you'll end up with a phone that's worse in every way and probably more expensive, for a feature so little people want.
What? I don't have to "imagine" anything. I literally owned one, for two years. Nothing was "sacrificed" on the Priv. It was in all aspects a completely modern phone, even managing to include a headphone jack and memory card slot, a curved edge display, wireless charging, and a 3400 mAh battery. And don't try to come at me about battery capacity, either. Just to name an example, its contemporary in the Galaxy S7 had a 3000 mAh battery, was the flagship phone of its time, and sold bucketloads of units.
Your argument is bullshit. Slider phones aren't made because manufacturers don't want to make them -- be that for low projected sales reasons or whatever else -- not because there is any physical reason they can't.
This guy is making the same argument that people do when they claim it's impossible to make a phone waterproof while also having a removable battery even though these phones already existed and it's a super basic solution. It's just ignorance and loud opinions all around.
"I don't share your use case, therefore your preference is invalid and only mine is correct."
Yeah, I know that one very well.