The phone is too big. A 5.8 inch screen is way too big for this minimalist. iPhone SE size would have been perfect.
Even the very first photo of it in-hand looks incredibly uncomfortable.
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#12There's a bigger UI here that that I've been thinking about for a while that seems very interesting to me - and that's putting all the apps UI into a single timeline view. That teamed up with some helpful AI / ML to surface what you need at the right times would be super interesting.
Blackberry used to be able to do something similar. Obviously without any of the smarts, but you could view all of the conversations that you'd had with a contact across multiple services all in one place. It was handy to have.
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#13Smartphones help people do more. Why would anyone buy one to do less is not that clear to me.
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#14Smartphones help people do more. Why would anyone buy one to do less is not that clear to me.
Not necessarily do less, but focus on what is important to them.
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#15That reminds me of Windows Phone.
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#17Maintaining an operating system is hard, like real hard. Monumentally hard. Them trying to roll their own android distribution does not inspire much confidence in the project. I'm really hoping a company can just come out with like... just a basic phone with hardware kill switches on the radios and ships with LineageOS as a default. Seems like there would be a decently sized niche for that market.
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#18The phone is too big. A 5.8 inch screen is way too big for this minimalist. iPhone SE size would have been perfect.
The battery size doesn't make up for the size either. My Pixel 1 XL is 5" with a 3450mah battery while the Blloc is 5.8" with a 3000mah battery.
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#19Maintaining an operating system is hard, like real hard. Monumentally hard. Them trying to roll their own android distribution does not inspire much confidence in the project. I'm really hoping a company can just come out with like... just a basic phone with hardware kill switches on the radios and ships with LineageOS as a default. Seems like there would be a decently sized niche for that market.
Wouldn't LineageOS suffer from the same problem ?
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#20If you're going to go minimal, you don't need much screen. Maybe it's just because the monochrome UI reminds me of my Pebble, but, I kind of wish this was a standalone smartwatch.
There's no reason a watch (with some guts in the strap) can't make phone calls and take pictures. Heck, even for light reading... I wrote an RSS Reader for my Pebble thinking it would be useful under rare circumstances, but I've found myself using it much more than I'd expected. For most things, I still move to different devices, but isn't that the point?