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Re: Clicks Communicator

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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…

I tried to find a contacts page, with physical address and phone #.

Not finding that is enough to avoid.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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post #150

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.

It does! Keep it a secret though, OK? Was going to save that for a surprise.

If this is confirmed, this is going to be the ultimate XR glasses companion, and will be easily distinguished fromm the Titan 2 with DP, SD and Jack. I hope you guys don't drop this DP plan in the end!

Re: Clicks Communicator

#245
I'm hesitantly excited about this. On one hand, I've been wanting something like this for years and it's literally everything I want in a cell phone. On the other hand, this isn't the first time I've been hyped for a product like this and been burned. I'll be pessimistically optimistic

Re: Clicks Communicator

#246

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…

I tried to find a contacts page, with physical address and phone #. Not finding that is enough to avoid.

https://www.clicks.tech/pages/about-clicks ?

(not affiliated but feels a bit rough as a critique for a companty that has shipped keyboards for a while)

Re: Clicks Communicator

#248

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…

> none of the apps are built for this aspect ratio or screen size

Android 16 forces developers to use a dynamic screen size, you can't force your app to be landscape only anymore. So maybe this aspect will be less of a problem in the future.

Re: Clicks Communicator

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post #240

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…

I have a founders edition Clicks keyboard for the iPhone 15 Pro. Its really a fantastic piece of hardware; worked great since I got it, idk, maybe 14 months ago. Obviously this is a full device and much more complicated, but I wouldn't personally have any qualms taking a risk on it given that their track record for the other clicks devices is pretty solid IME.

Your keyboard doesn't connect to the internet or run an OS. These are very different requirements to have for a company you purchase from IMO.

This thing will run android on a mediatek chip, it's not a purchase once and done type thing like the keyboard attachment.

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