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I don't think I've ever had a phone I needed to charge daily.
You got into the smart phone game fairly late, or you don't use them heavily.
both apply to me.
Blloc – minimalist smartphone
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Looks fake" was my first impression as well. Based on the existing information, this looks to be a phone running on Android. And it'll be preinstalled with Uber and Facebook messenger. So it's a minimalist phone for people who don't care about privacy? I don't get it.
I agree. I was kind of hoping for a phone that just does call and SMS and browsing.
the light phone 1 did just sms and calls, the light phone 2 expands on that. i guess blloc is just a modernist phone?
blloc and lightphone both stand out from other phones because they have a greyscale ui, which lets them use eink for something like 10x battery life. that’s the selling point, i think.
edit: nevermind, this is lcd but still saves on battery life bc it’s greyscale
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#8350K for the marketing campaign to probably 200K in pre-orders for a product that will never ship. Not a bad 4X return on investment for the founding team.
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#84Who designed this site? Readability is very poor. 8px font size for the 'pre-order' button, really?
And the contrast ratio is pretty low too.
Please, don't hire designers who just care about the graphic design aspect and making it look beautiful, but a pain to use, i.e. totally neglect usability.
Erik Spiekermann said it best (enable english captions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw0syzCeH4Q
Re: Blloc – minimalist smartphone
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Looks fake" was my first impression as well. Based on the existing information, this looks to be a phone running on Android. And it'll be preinstalled with Uber and Facebook messenger. So it's a minimalist phone for people who don't care about privacy? I don't get it.
I agree. I was kind of hoping for a phone that just does call and SMS and browsing.
and navigation and music
edit: and email and calendar
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. I don't get if the grey scale is only for the web design or the phone is all black and white. Is gray the color color i can pick for the phone? What if I want a red phone? Is it gonna be a darker black phone?
no lie i would pay good money for an eink monochrome phone with an insane battery life
This seem nice, i think i will buy one
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#87You should feature Signal in your app section.
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#88Devices like this intrigue me but the price always seems way too high. I wonder if anyone will actually come up with a minimalist phone that has a minimalist price to match.
It's less than $450. That's pretty reasonable for a high-end smartphone (Samsung's Galaxy S9 clocks in at $700+), and this does look to have rather high-end specs (octa-core CPU, 2160×1440 display, 4K recording, 13MP camera, 4GB RAM, 64GB storage + SD card slot).
Sure, it ain't in the same price bracket as a bargain-bin ZTE or Moto phone, but it ain't in the same specs bracket, either.
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#89Does anybody know of any projects similar to this one (and Light Phone 2 [1]) but for desktop OS in laptop format? Apple's products of late does not interest me and I'm stuck with my beloved 2013 MacBook Air until it dies or something better comes along. I have yet to find something better. I long for a laptop purposely designed for productivity, simplicity and minimalism. Ideally with a custom designed OS (could jus…
Define "designed for productivity?"
If I'm a writer, I will need very different things than a video editor or software developer to be productive.
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#90https://www.quora.com/Is-it-legal-for-vendors-to-sell-an-And... >The AOSP doesn't come with Google Services. You can build a device and sell it, but it will not have the incredibly important set of Google Apps people love, not even Google Play (so people cannot go and download Google Maps and Gmail afterwards). Hmmm, and yet this comes with Google Maps... Suspicious... Edit: A post below indicates that it is Android…
Lots of companies sell Android devices without explicitly calling it Android. The most notable example is Amazon (Android - without GApps - is the OS on pretty much everything in the Fire line, e.g. Fire Tab and Fire TV). In other words, I think you've got it backwards: you're not allowed to use Google's branding/trademarks (including "Android") unless you have authorization from Google. Meanwhile, I'm not aware of a…
Incorrect. Look at the specs page:
OS
Android O (8.0)
It's not just that it's not visible, it's the Blloc is pretending they invented an entire new os ("Blloc OS").
Amazon Fire is a different story, because they package their own app store (not the Google Play Store). But Blloc is loading the Play Store. I am fairly sure that a requirement of doing so means you have to accept the Google branding (i.e. you have to call it Android).