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Post by sidrag22 »

philistine wrote: post #138
growt wrote: 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.

kinda comes across as building what they want personally, what resonated with me was the potential for just a simple merging of modern stuff with older styles, the beloved blackberry, paired with headphone jack, and sd card, toss in a removable battery? already a fairly viable product with stock android and no other changes. the curated display or whatever... its just push notifications in the order they were delivered.. is this not just what modern push notifications already do? my default is to immediately have push notifications off, unless its a vital app. i assume anyone serious about using their phone as a tool rather than an entertainment device is operating similarly, and they'd be the target market if im reading into this correctly.

Hope that simple idea for the colored button based on what your notification is will catch on, thats pretty neat design.

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Post by lewiscollard »

pmarsh wrote: post #60
petrey wrote: post #46

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The site lists the following specs for cameras: > Cameras > Rear: 50MP OIS > Front: 24MP Honestly, this sounds like a great deal

Thanks, I saw that, but I never can make heads or tails of just MP. Feel like some phones have much lower MP but the quality of the photo is much higher. It does seem like a great deal either way though!

> Thanks, I saw that, but I never can make heads or tails of just MP. Feel like some phones have much lower MP but the quality of the photo is much higher.

It does not merely feel that way; it often is. That is because megapixels measure the dimensions of the files the camera generates (this is not the same as resolution) and as such are almost the worst measure of camera quality.

Boring tech websites like comparing megapixels, because that is a number, and that allows people who do not know how cameras work to review products and have opinions without actually using them. Truth is that pixels, a measure of resolution, have been irrelevant for years when one is not printing them huge or looking at them full-size on gigantic computer monitors. More or less nobody is doing that these days; they're looking at them a few inches wide on their phones or tablets, usually via [insert social app] that downsizes and compresses the shit out of them to save on bandwidth & storage.

Things like

* colour rendition * contrast rendition * low-light ability * speed of operation (allows you to get a photo in the first place) * and more things I could name

...are all far more important to what makes a good camera on a phone. If more people were like you and actually LOOKED AT THE PHOTOS we might have ended up with much better cameras than we have now.

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Post by Kristopher1337 »

I feel where they messed up is including modem hardware especially as they tout this as a secondary device.

I could definitely use a second device that is specific for work. I don't want MDM on my phone mostly because they can erase my phone at any time. I also would check work email and Teams constantly. My work is more than happy to get me connected to work services if I will accept the MDM terms yet they won't help pay for my phone bill nor pay for a phone.

All I need is a device that can easily connect to my smartphone hotspot or wifi when I choose to that will meet my company's MDM requirements, has email, and can use Teams. If Im making a phone call at work I 100% use Teams. All I need is data which I can get from my smartphone. The included modem is extra costs. If this was $200-$300 I would consider it which they could do if they didn't include a modem.

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Post by xethos »

jeroenhd wrote: post #133
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…

I have the Titan 2 and I find that with the right software, these problems aren't as bad in the new release. The typing itself is a personal preference, of course; the keyboard needs to happen to be the right size for your hands or you're going to have a bad time. For navigating between characters, there's an excellent open source keyboard ( https://github.com/palsoftware/pastiera ) that provides a lot of features no…

The launcher is Niagara launcher, it's available today, and it's one of the recommended ones for the Q25 because it supports keyboard shortcuts from the homescreen natively. I'd imagine your Titan 2 would behave similarly :)

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Post by xethos »

awinter-py wrote: post #166
rchaud wrote: post #136

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Not the person you're replying to, but I was a big BB user in the 2000s and had the Blackberry Passport briefly in 2015 to test its Android app compatibility (it was pretty damn compatible!). What I discovered was that the best BB keyboards for error-free typing were the curved 4-row keyboards on the Bold 9000, 9700 and 9900. The Passport kb was flat, rectangular and only had 3 rows over a very wide layout and placed…

miss the bold 9000 so much it sounds like there is a slow and steady open source community around either replacement q20 keyboards, or a reverse-engineered one? https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/the-blackberry-keyboard-how-... and the beepy, which runs linux and for some reason has the keyboard blurred out on its homepage https://beepy.sqfmi.com/

A Q20 project has actually launched. The Zinwa Q25 uses the Q20 hardware with a new mainboard and battery. I have one, this comment was written with one, and I can say for damn sure: They're real, and they're fantastic.

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Post by rahkiin »

Kristopher1337 wrote: post #214

I feel where they messed up is including modem hardware especially as they tout this as a secondary device. I could definitely use a second device that is specific for work. I don't want MDM on my phone mostly because they can erase my phone at any time. I also would check work email and Teams constantly. My work is more than happy to get me connected to work services if I will accept the MDM terms yet they won't hel…

So you’d basically want what was the iPod Touch?

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Post by zx10rse »

I recently charged and old Blackberry to see if it is still alive. They got everything so right I really miss those devices I will buy BB in a heartbeat. The OS is sublime I was surprised how after 10+ years not using a device like this I could go around everything without any friction. So easy to use intuitive the little trackpad is on par with macbooks, BB had stacking messages 10 years ago, the size of the device is just perfect. Everything about it is just a joy to use. I can't understand to this day how this company went downhill.

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Post by ulfw »

rchaud wrote: post #142
petrey wrote: post #46

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The site lists the following specs for cameras: > Cameras > Rear: 50MP OIS > Front: 24MP Honestly, this sounds like a great deal

If pictures are important to the buyer, they should get a high end Samsung, iPhone or specialty Huawei/Vivo models. Every other phone will have a generic camera lens and imaging algorithm. Source: I have purchased a lot of phones. A 4 year old Galaxy S22 will take better pictures than a 2025 Motorola or any other Tier 2 Android brand.

Funny how you are missing Oppo and Xiaomi which are heavily focused on photography with their collaborations on Hasselblad color science and Leica respectively

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Post by ulfw »

solomonb wrote: post #56
joshlemer wrote: post #51

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What do you use for maps? Or paying for parking which maybe isn't the case for you but in my city requires use of a smartphone app. What about music and podcasts? Asking cause I would like to use a dumb phone if possible but it seems like it would actually introduce a lot of friction into daily life.

I pay for parking with quarters or a credit card. If necessary I use a piece of paper for maps. For music I have an ipod.

And you watch movies on your VHS?
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