Nice landing page and an intruiging concept. The Spotify glyphicon is wrong, though - it looks like a duplicate of the one for weather.
Blloc – minimalist smartphone
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#12Meh. Just give me some portable device like the PocketCHIP or the ZipitZ2, not this hipster bullshit.
This is just for a different audience than CHIP.
Good luck running e.g. Google Maps or Firefox on a CHIP.
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#13Interesting but I'd like way more details before preordering. The extended battery is specially appealing but it needs way more explanation.
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#14Any other details about the OS? Is it an Android? How are the applications managed and what's their update pipeline? Are they whitelisted and managed by the manufacturer's own App Store? What's the privacy policy like? How often will it issue updates? I really like the display. I've been waiting for a phone with minimalistic display to save battery ever since the Motofone F3. But there's way too little information th…
we def. screwed up communication as we've been focused lately on finishing hardware. its based on Android 8.1 and the apps are downloaded via play-store normally. We don't white or black list, but rather are going through the most used apps and building easier integrations for them
What's the expected battery life? I was hoping to see an average and maximum battery life described on the page, but couldn't find it.
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#15Seems interesting.
But can you bump up the font size? Being partially sighted means that with the current fontSize of 10px the site is unreadable to me.
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#16Doe the monochromatic design language reduced battery consumption by limiting the usage of colour pixel matrix on the LCD screen?
I imagine it will be oled or something similar. Any black pixels will simply be off. Not sure how a white pixel saves power though, since it needs all three RGB to make white.
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#17Devices like this intrigue me but the price always seems way too high. I wonder if anyone will actually come up with a minimalist phone that has a minimalist price to match.
It will involve minimalist features, like minimalist horsepower and screen size.
Quite minimal phone-only phones do exist, like Punkt MP 101, or more conventional phones, especially kids-oriented.
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#18Doe the monochromatic design language reduced battery consumption by limiting the usage of colour pixel matrix on the LCD screen?
I imagine it will be oled or something similar. Any black pixels will simply be off. Not sure how a white pixel saves power though, since it needs all three RGB to make white.
It says LCD in the description.
I can imagine they keep backlight down most of the time.
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#19Devices like this intrigue me but the price always seems way too high. I wonder if anyone will actually come up with a minimalist phone that has a minimalist price to match.
For an unconventional phone (=limited target group, risky) + the insurance + the work going into the app integration the price does not seem to be high at all, to me.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
we def. screwed up communication as we've been focused lately on finishing hardware. its based on Android 8.1 and the apps are downloaded via play-store normally. We don't white or black list, but rather are going through the most used apps and building easier integrations for them
What's the expected battery life? I was hoping to see an average and maximum battery life described on the page, but couldn't find it.
this reallly depends on usage, we wanted to send it to the real benchmarking websites when we release. I charge mine every 2 days which was a personal goal (to not get punished if I forgot to charge last night)