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Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by ulfw »

tabiv wrote: post #95
CGMthrowaway wrote: post #90

>Designed for doing, not doomscrolling. It still has a touchscreen, right? And it even has a blinky light up button on the side, something iPhone doesn't. I read the homepage, but I couldn't figure out how this phone was "anti-doomscrolling" - what am I missing?

The "small" screen is supposed to deter social media and video use.

It deters any kind of use outside texting.

Apps won't render properly on too small a screen (e.g. Google Maps). Good luck reading a website on a 4" square screen too

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by darthbanane »

I would recommend not touching pre-orders with a 10-foot pole.

The leadership behind this project is f(x)tec. While they're not outright scammers they have a TERRIBLE track record in delivering products like this. Just look up the old fxtec community forums or the indiegogo pages for the pro1 / pro1x.

It's just data points but so far the modus operandi was to take pre-order money and then take years to deliver a bad product with no aftermarket support. There were always new excuses about what happened (shipping company stole our stuff! chip reseller scammed us! etc) but no transparency. The reality seems to be they ran out of money and instead of being upfront about it kept making up new stories why nothing was happening. The few devices they have shipped are basically unusable unless you're going to mod the hard- and software yourself (no security updates, issues in antenna design, outdated hardware by the time it ships, keyboard quality issues, you name it).

If you're interested in the device I implore you to wait until you can buy it upfront (ideally in a physical store) and return it at your convenience.

I thought I needed a keyboard too, but when everything is designed for a slab screen and your "productivity" phone randomly shuts down or has no reception in a major area, you gotta think about what productivity really means.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by carlosjobim »

RajT88 wrote: post #178
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…

Speaking of e-Waste: > Can Communicator be used as my primary phone? Without them making a statement of how long they will provide security updates for, this could easily go like past phones of mine. My work tightens their mobile security policy, and the device can no longer meet it. This is for both Android version and security updates. Happened to me a few times where I had to stop using a perfectly good phone whic…

Why don't you have a work phone? How can you let an employer rule over what you do with your personal device?

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by carlosjobim »

UpstairsEmpire wrote: post #171
thrtythreeforty wrote: post #88

Beautiful hardware. If they'd commit to GrapheneOS's hardware requirements https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices , I'd preorder... I'm stuck on Pixels because Graphene is so nice.

I mean, is it beautiful though? Also, who cares if it's beautiful.

It is one of the most beautifully designed electronic devices I've seen recently.

People who will carry the device with them every day care if it is beautiful.

I know Hackers only care about size of RAM, no matter what kind of device and what kind of usage.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by al_borland »

weikju wrote: post #202
lanyard-textile wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holding the spacebar down... I never knew about this... are there any other Apple keyboard secrets?

While holding it down, tap with another finger to start selecting text instead of just moving the cursor around.

I’m trying this, but it feels pretty buggy. I don’t feel like I have much control.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by pmdr »

class3shock wrote: post #128

The Communicator is interesting but why are they marketing this as a "second" phone? I can see buying this as a primary but who is really looking for a phone they carry specifically as a backup for when they want a keyboard?

I expect an unimpressive camera and (hopefully not) battery.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by al_borland »

lanyard-textile wrote: post #139
SkyPuncher wrote: post #54

I had the Unihertz Titan for a while . It was a fun experiment, but I ultimately found it too annoying for continued daily use First, typing was actually slower and more error prone. Even nearly a year into owning it, I was constantly misclicking and spending loads of time correcting myself. Second, you loose a ton of navigate functionality with the hardware keyboards. Holding space to navigate between characters is…

Holding the spacebar down... I never knew about this... are there any other Apple keyboard secrets?

The Apple keyboard added swipe support a couple years ago, use your finger to make a single swipe across all the letters in the word you want to type. Like SwiftKey.

If you press and hold the emoji button in the lower left, you can pick to have the keyboard shift to the left or right, for easier one handed typing. On the iPad I think you can pull the keyboard apart so you can use one thumb on each side of the screen while holding it (last I used it, you could do this with a gesture of putting your two thumbs in the center of the keyboard and pulling them apart toward the sides).

Press and hold on letters or symbols for accidents or more related symbols. I don’t think this one is that big of a secret, but it’s worth going through all the symbols to see everything that’s available.

I don’t have an iPad currently, but I think it has the numbers on the top row of letters, and you can swipe up (or down, I don’t remember) on the key for quick entry of some numbers without changing to the symbol keyboard.

Double tap the shift key for CAPS LOCK.

In the Settings, there is built in text expansion support (Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement). Adding curse words in here was a way to get around the “ducking” auto-correct in the past, with the typed word and the replacement being set to the same word. If want a way to type more obscure symbols, this is a way to set that up as well, I can type , for example.

They upgraded the speech to text a few years ago. If you got in the habit of not bothering, because you had to be perfect in one take, it’s better now. You can speak, take breaks, and manually correct and add things with your keyboard in the middle of dictation.

That’s all that comes to mind for now.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by rchaud »

divan wrote: post #228

> Premium typing experience Nothing beats N900 typing experience. Change my mind.

HTC Touch Pro 2 running Windows Mobile. I remember writing a 4,000 word essay on it for a magazine, mostly while travelling to and from my summer job.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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Post by carlosjobim »

ulfw wrote: post #221
tabiv wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "small" screen is supposed to deter social media and video use.

It deters any kind of use outside texting. Apps won't render properly on too small a screen (e.g. Google Maps). Good luck reading a website on a 4" square screen too

Reading websites should be no problem if pagination is used instead of scrolling.
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