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Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by steve-atx-7600 »

I was disappointed by their iPhone keyboard offering. I felt like their product was superficially good: fancy adds, fancy web-page, the keyboard looked nice, BUT the functionality was not well thought out. They seemed to not realize that they need to provide a hell of a lot of benefit to warrant making an iPhone - especially a max - bigger and heavier. So, sure, they provided physical qwerty. But, they did not make it easy to bind keys or combos to all/most of the Apple supported shortcuts that a bluetooth keyboard would be able to take advantage of. The result is that even if I liked the qwerty, I still have to take my fingers off of it to touch the damn screen to do basic navigation. With better leadership, they would be a much stronger company.

EDIT: was referring to their first product that is an iphone case plus keyboard (I just noticed they have a new keyboard offering).

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Post by Waterluvian »

The first rendering made me think it was as thick as a brick, and that got me kind of excited for a moment…

Any device that isn’t as thick and heavy as the original Game Boy feels uncomfortably cramped in my hands.

Being unable to fit in a pocket would be a plus. I want a device I have to consciously choose to carry with me to a new room, like a tablet or a pound of butter.

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#33

Post by solomonb »

Wow I wish they had announced this sooner. I just ordered a keyphone but this looks way more suited to my use case. I just want a basic feature phone + qwerty keyboard + signal + whats app.

I've been using a lightphone for 3 years but i can't stand the touch screen and only having SMS is annoying.

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#36

Post by LunicLynx »

memoriuaysj wrote: post #26
LunicLynx wrote: post #3

I love it. Finally some innovation. Now make it incapable of instagram and TikTok and other invasive social media crap and we might have the winner for the next decade. As if :(

do you have so little agency that you can't stop yourself from installing TikTok? what will stop you then from keeping your existing TikTok phone after buying this?

Uhhh judgey…

You do you. It was ment as a glimmer of hope for society at large.

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#37

Post by Elidrake24 »

vpol wrote: post #2

For people who miss blackberry.

Hell yeah it is. They've found some success with their cases, and I'm excited to switch to their new magnetic keyboard for horizontal portable work, but I do worry this is a moonshot that will sink them.

Re: Clicks Communicator

#39

Post by spenczar5 »

I feel like I see an independent low-noise phone project like, every 3 months. Clearly there is some latent demand here. I wonder why the big players (Google, Apple, Samsung, HTC) haven't made a big-corp product for this market.

I am always reluctant to jump on with these independent ambitious projects. The first version is understandably rough, and the company seems to fold before they get to a second or third version.

But maybe advances in manufacturing in China are making high-quality, small-batch products like this more tractable?

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#40

Post by reconnecting »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #17
crtasm wrote: post #12

Looks great and the price is a pleasant surprise. Can we flash a custom OS to it? I'm missing having LED colours for notifications on my current phone.

Loved the LED on my Blackberry Passport.

I had two Blackberry Passport even after EOF. Best email experience ever and LED for emails was particularly useful.
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