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Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by hasperdi »

paxys wrote: post #93

Seems like they have a good idea for a phone and want to fund the development using "pre-orders" (aka a Kickstarter). I went through the website and all the marketing and watched the launch video to find out how this thing works, but all I see is the same rendered home screen and lots of promises. Even in the video they show plenty of models of the phone lying around but not a single shot of one turned on and working…

looking at this https://youtu.be/u7Uz1YZ5hQA?t=309&si=LvSzi7vXmUCJ2LY3 I think they're in mocking/prototyping phase at the moment.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by rchaud »

petrey wrote: post #46
pmarsh wrote: post #43

This is looking great, hope the camera can at least produce decent photos. So many other phones with a QEWRTY keyboard just have awful cameras. The Razr 2024/25 + the clicks keyboard is probably the "best" so far. Although I just got a Zinwa Q25. Amazing how good that formfactor feels after having candy bars this long.

The site lists the following specs for cameras: > Cameras > Rear: 50MP OIS > Front: 24MP Honestly, this sounds like a great deal

If pictures are important to the buyer, they should get a high end Samsung, iPhone or specialty Huawei/Vivo models. Every other phone will have a generic camera lens and imaging algorithm. Source: I have purchased a lot of phones. A 4 year old Galaxy S22 will take better pictures than a 2025 Motorola or any other Tier 2 Android brand.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by Kirth »

altairprime wrote: post #116
paxys wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Russian does not use the Latin alphabet

Oh! Okay. I’m not an expert, but the depth of information here appears to disagree? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Latin_alphabet

Муч лике хов Ю кан/кулд спел Енглиш ин Кирилик.. but who in their right mind actually does that?

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by jeroenhd »

reconnecting wrote: post #48

It looks more like hype than a real product. What makes me suspicious is the Gmail icon instead of a generic email app. So if I have my own email server, does that mean no mail? Or would there be one Gmail app and another separate email client? Unclear.

The Gmail app supports POP, IMAP, MS Exchange, and (though it got bugged into re-downloading the entire mailbox every day) even old-fashioned MS ActiveSync.

You can disable the Gmail app and install something like Thunderbird seeing as this is just a normal Android phone (which, of course, will also show you your Gmail emails if you set it up to do so).

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by mawax »

kh_hk wrote: post #125

My recommendation for someone considering a minimalist / dumbphone / detox / whatever is to avoid expensive products that over-promise their utility. There's no middle ground, it's either usable or it is not, so any in between will just become e-waste eventually. The alternative I went with, and which I recommend, is getting both a smartphone and a nokia shitphone (no internet). Then ask the carrier for a sim duplica…

Did not know these existed. Just ordered a duo sim from my carrier, thanks!

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by rchaud »

spenczar5 wrote: post #39

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 versi…

Big corps were the ones to move away from Blackbery en masse towards a BYOD system. Before that, Samsung and Nokia both had a series of keyboard phones running Windows Mobile 6 or SymbianOS. I had the Samsung Blackjack II in 2008.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by Void_ »

kh_hk wrote: post #125

My recommendation for someone considering a minimalist / dumbphone / detox / whatever is to avoid expensive products that over-promise their utility. There's no middle ground, it's either usable or it is not, so any in between will just become e-waste eventually. The alternative I went with, and which I recommend, is getting both a smartphone and a nokia shitphone (no internet). Then ask the carrier for a sim duplica…

I just keep my iPhone locked up.

You can go to Screen Time and disable Safari and App Store.

You can protect it with a passcode, which is what I did.

After a few weeks I just got used to my phone being dumb.

Now these apps are unlocked, but the habit is there, and I use it for utility only.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by jeroenhd »

gspr wrote: post #79

Slight digression: why isn't a computer – a general purpose computer, open enough to run mainline Linux – in this form factor readily available? I'm fine with not calling it a phone. I just don't understand why we don't have (connected) open pocket computers by now, with all the innovations introduced by smartphones more or less commoditized by now. By "open" above, I don't necessarily mean open hardware (though that…

https://www.gpd-minipc.com/ has all kinds of models for the "tiny laptop" form factor as long as 7 inches is tiny enough for you. Their recent products seem to be pivoting more towards the "handheld gaming computer" space, but their Pocket 3 and MicroPC 2 seem to be pretty close to "pocket computers". As far as I know, these are plain old amd64 platforms that will run Linux as well as any other Chinese motherboard.

The small+portable nature of these phones make them unsuitable for amd64 chips (so far) so everyone is using ARM chips, which means dealing with weird and quirky bootloaders or hard-coded OS keys. Qualcomm is putting effort into getting some iterations of their hardware into a well-supported state, so hopefully we may see better mainline Linux support on their chips soon. However, you're not going to get your hands on Qualcomm chips if you don't beat their (high) minimum order quantities and these tiny keyboard phones are hardly mainstream devices, so they often end up with MediaTek chips which have absolutely terrible mainline Linux support (and even worse bootloader quirks).

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by rchaud »

onesandofgrain wrote: post #94
analogpixel wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

even it is "JUST" a blackberry, seems like there is a market for that again. Although it would be nice if they had their own OS like blackberry and ditched android.

Do we really wanna go back to using keyboards? Like Steve Jobs said, the keyboard shouldnt be visible when not in use, but I dunno, seems more like a niche nostalgia product

Jobs said a lot of things designed to make his tchotchke look better than the other guy's. He said he couldn't use a Samsung 8 inch tablet without filing his fingers down, while working on the iPad Mini at that same exact time.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by rchaud »

If they really wanted this to be about "doing", they'd give the USB-C port display out capability and let it be used with an external display, like Samsung does with DeX. Android phones with a lapdock and desktop UI are almost indistinguishable from a laptop.
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