Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
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Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
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Re: Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
#2Minimalist smartphone, so I find it ironic that they decided to go 180 degrees opposite with the website-- another way too animated frustration fest.
Scrolling three times only made the words smaller, and the links don't go to the phone itself...took a minute to figure out that i need to scroll furiously to make any headway and actually see the phone
Re: Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
#3Minimalist smartphone, so I find it ironic that they decided to go 180 degrees opposite with the website-- another way too animated frustration fest. Scrolling three times only made the words smaller, and the links don't go to the phone itself...took a minute to figure out that i need to scroll furiously to make any headway and actually see the phone
And after scrolling for 5 minutes discover it isn't supported on my carrier anyway :(
Re: Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
#4So this is a Android phone with a monochrome minimalist skin and its setup to work by defaukt without Google services setup. I think it is a cool concept but I wish it was smaller, the 5.8" screen seems overly large for a phone focusing on minimalism. I wonder if the code for the theme is being shared anywhere.
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#5https://shop.blloc.com/pages/networks
In the US it has 1 Sprint LTE band and a few 3G bands with AT&T / T-Mobile.
In Germany where the company is based all networks are supported, and in consequence most/all of Europe since the bands are standardized.
Perhaps it's interesting to someone in the US with Project Fi but the target is primarily Germany/Europe. Also it doesn't ship to the US: https://shop.blloc.com/pages/faq
Re: Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
#6A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16914772
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#7There'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.
Re: Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
#8If you like the greyscale and use an iPhone, you can set it up with color filters and toggle it with the power button in accessibility shortcuts.
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#9The phone is too big. A 5.8 inch screen is way too big for this minimalist. iPhone SE size would have been perfect.
Re: Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
#10Minimalist smartphone, so I find it ironic that they decided to go 180 degrees opposite with the website-- another way too animated frustration fest. Scrolling three times only made the words smaller, and the links don't go to the phone itself...took a minute to figure out that i need to scroll furiously to make any headway and actually see the phone
Technically it is pretty impressive, I would love to learn how to build pages like this, but it is horrible UX.