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Re: Clicks Communicator

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post #143

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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?

Palm Treo/Pre and BlackBerry users! And probably Clicks users too. It's not a matter of "Does Russian language use the Latin script?" (it doesn't), but rather "What is the least annoying method to input Cyrillic on a BB-style keyboard, which doesn't have enough buttons for the йцукен layout?". Phonetic layouts such as яверты or яшерты were very popular for such devices back in the day.

Re: Clicks Communicator

#155
post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

For anyone one confused, the first part is an approximate transliteration into Cyrillic of the English sentence “Much like how you can/could spell English in Cyrillic.”

Re: Clicks Communicator

#157

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

ah, sorry, you just want to control what apps other people can use

I think you misunderstood. My point was: This would be a great device if there wasn’t a need for it to support these apps.

And because of this it’s just another android phone. And it fails (will) because the screen ratio does not work for those apps.

This would be awesome if it would just be that a „communicator“ meaning a device that allows to communicate.

Think remarkable vs all the other e-ink android tablets.

Re: Clicks Communicator

#158
post #132

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If you’re aiming for the second phone market you don’t have to beat the iPhone. Probably the easier pitch.

A second phone market has never been a thing. History is filled with failed attempts. They should focus on the largest potential market: parents who buy a phone like this to text with their kids without allowing them to have a completely internet connected phone.

From my experience as a parent, that market is also very small, because the time between “child is old enough to text and be away from parents for long enough” to “child wants to have a real phone” is not that long.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Innovation?

re-innovation; it'll be one the first first phones in 20 years to have an actually different form factor than, "rectangular screen"

Exactly. And I would love a phone that commits to be a „communicator“, eg. optimizing the simplicity of talking, instead of a consumption device.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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post #112

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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

> The Russian Latin alphabet is the common name for various variants of writing the Russian language by means of the Latin alphabet.

Key word - variant

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