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Forget it. The Pro1-X camera cannot handle such light conditions. The Pro1's is better, but still takes a lot of patience and manual intervention (and a good camera app) with night shooting. The price tag comes from the mech keyboard. Full stop. Other than that they're mid- (Pro1) to low-class (Pro1-X) phones. The position of the spot on you screen is different from all I've seen before, though. Normally they are all in the corners of the display, and hardly visible in normal operation. So forget what I said before: Might be worthwhile contacting F(x)tec for a replacement after all.

Hello, I've marked where the spot is on the screen. I can live with that though. All my apps are set to dark. Bluetooth and WiFi are not good. Making calls works well. The camera is really annoying. I expected more. Even the Uniherz Titan Pocket that I bought for my wife has an acceptable camera. We went to a rock concert on Sunday and it didn't work at all. Not at all. I was really angry. I used the zoom in the dark and the camera froze. And the original camera app never focused. Oh well   burkhard

Allow me to suggest you to launch a new keyboard slider phone, if you know how it should be done, I would certainly be interested in buying... All electronic devices are the result of series of compromises and design decisions, there are no perfect devices. Would I have preferred a slightly lesser flat rectangular screen with protected edges? Sure, but not all would. And with that changed design other things might have followed that I might not have liked. Remember that such a tiny company as FxTec, aren't requesting a display manufacturer to produce exactly what they would find optimal, they try to piece the device together with existing components that can be delivered and to an acceptable price, with as little as possible custom made. And it is sooooo easy in the wisdom of hindsight to say that they should have chosen this or that differently, and I'm sure that for many things they too would love to be able to turn the clock backwards and do something differently. My Pro1 is far from a a perfect device, but it is for me the least bad available option -for any price- Hence it is still my daily driver despite being five years old and are beginning to show severe signs of wear and tear.

So because of the other issues this is "appropriate"? No. This defect is inappropriate on an $800+ device. I would still want a replacement even it this was the only issue. Maybe you understand that the screen is the thing you focus on while using the device. So yeah... I am focused on it, in addition to the countless other issues... That would be even worse as the rounds are already cutting off text in the terminal, and also cuts part of the AM/PM in the status bar time. Rounded corners are bad design in the first place, the solution is not to cut off even more pixels and further reduce real-estate. They should have chosen with a regular flat rectangle screen with no curves or rounds...

Academically speaking yes it is... But just imagine that fxtec had pre-installed an app giving more rounded corners (maybe hard-coded). Then you would have never noticed that the display-defect existed - but sure it would still be there in principle. If the Pro1/Pro1X were otherwise close to flawless perfection, I could understand the focus on this. But as there are so many different more serious issues I think the wording of @Rob. S. "it's a minor cosmetic blemish," is quite appropriate for this one. ADD: Being polemic one could say that it is a question of poor QC. IF they had noticed this as a frequent issue, they could have hid the issue from us with deliberately disabled black corners.