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Would love to get more information on this Blloc OS in terms of updates, both security and regular. Also, a video of this thing in action wouldn't be bad either. It's definitely an interesting concept, but for me at least I need a lot more information from the get-go to go ahead and pre-order.
Everything indicates this is Android based. Some remarked it was compatible with the Play Store.
Looks fake. Do you have any working versions of the phone? A video of the phone being used? All pictures look like renders, not real devices. Not sure who would pre-order something with such little information.
Based on the existing information, this looks to be a phone running on Android. And it'll be preinstalled with Uber and Facebook messenger.
So it's a minimalist phone for people who don't care about privacy? I don't get it.
Looks fake. Do you have any working versions of the phone? A video of the phone being used? All pictures look like renders, not real devices. Not sure who would pre-order something with such little information.
"Looks fake" was my first impression as well. Based on the existing information, this looks to be a phone running on Android. And it'll be preinstalled with Uber and Facebook messenger. So it's a minimalist phone for people who don't care about privacy? I don't get it.
>The AOSP doesn't come with Google Services. You can build a device and sell it, but it will not have the incredibly important set of Google Apps people love, not even Google Play (so people cannot go and download Google Maps and Gmail afterwards).
Hmmm, and yet this comes with Google Maps... Suspicious...
Edit: A post below indicates that it is Android 8.1. I'm no lawyer, but it sounds like a trademark violation to sell Android but call it something else.
I don't see how this will work but reading my messages whilst being informed about my Uber, flights, and/or weather seems quite fragmented and unfocused.
Seems 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.
Seems 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.
I was excited as long as I assumed this would be E-Ink.
I do think you have a point in that there should be marketspace for what the old Nokia was - something that could stay on all week without babysitting the battery.
Website accessibility is possibly an important part of this, if everyone wrote proper responsive websites that met accessibility standards to look good on mobile then these should read fine on an E-ink display. All text messaging apps should look fine too.
The trick to making the device work is probably the camera, if you could easily connect the screen of another phone to it then you could do selfies and what not. A convenient device to facilitate that, maybe top up the battery of the main phone and work independently of the main phone on a duplicate/tied in SIM, that could work.
Looks fake. Do you have any working versions of the phone? A video of the phone being used? All pictures look like renders, not real devices. Not sure who would pre-order something with such little information.
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I noticed this as well. The images of the device are entirely inconsistent with one another [0].
* Rendering effects are visible in some of the images
* The front is displayed inconsistently. In some renders, a speaker is shown. In others, it is absent.
* The front is shown as having a black bezel at the top in some images and on the bottom in others.
* The radius of the rounded corners fluctuates between top and bottom and from image to image
* On the back, the fingerprint reader, camera lens, and LED may or may not be present from image to image
* Antenna cut outs are depicted as either horizontal or vertical
* The side buttons do not appear congruent
* The information on the back is inconsistent (sometimes device info, sometimes Blloc)
* The camera style fluctuates from image to image (sometimes single lens, sometimes dual lens)
On the flip side, the domain has been registered since 2016 [1] and the project has been referenced on other sites [2][3] (using some of the same rendered images). The Instagram [4] has had posts since 2017, but, again, most appear to be renders.
From adhambadr: trademark application [5] and university article [6]
[0] https://imgur.com/a/W6ogsZJ
[1] https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=blloc.com
[2] https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=54753
[3] http://startuptv.io/startups/blloc-die-smartphone-alternativ...
[4] https://www.instagram.com/bllocphone/
[5] https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/register/3020172...
[6] https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/profund/aktuelles/news/EXIST-...