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Brief Christmas update. A small batch is shipping out this Friday, if UPS keeps its promises. It was meant to arrive today, but our staff availability is limited in the UK right now. No stock assignment letters for this one, as we are shipping them a little differently to avoid extra delays. Some of you will have tracking info on Friday. The big batch which should make a lot of you happy is expected to leave the factory in the 1st week of January, which is also when we expect you’ll have the tracking details. We would like to thank everyone for their patience. Merry

Say Pro 1 three times fast (I'm not the originator of this idea)... 😉

Mwerrtry Chjridstmasd, evbertybody. (Sent from my Priv with a way too tiny keyboad)

...Or the numbers could reflect that this is the umpteenth poll/thread reflecting the understandable impatience for those that unfortunately have not got it yet.

It's very damning to see all their official updates in one post.... If you told me it would be at least 6 to 8 months from when I paid I wouldn't have gone through with my pre order at all. And even after all this, they continue to give murky updates as usual and continue to miss deadlines

Ordered 29.3.2019, payed 1.8.2019, order #11xxx, EU - Czech Republic, QWERTY. Edit: No IGG backer. I was not at home yesterday (23.12.2019) and received UPS note in mailbox about them not being able to catch me, stating that next delivery will happen on next working day except bank holidays. Which makes it Friday 27.12.2019. It's most likely the Pro 1 as I'm not expecting anything else which might be delivered by UPS. So it looks like I'm one of the EU bunch who is receiving the unit directly from HK without 'stock assigned' ritual. I don't mind being missed by UPS and getting the pho

I set a hard deadline that if my phone would not be shipped by christmas I would cancel my pre-order. Sadly this has become reality and I have just send out my cancellation (hey, thats 1 phone closer in queue for someone else on the list😄). With the newly stated delivery date (end of January), utter lack of transparency from Fxtec concerning delays, order priority and a true number on how many phones have been produced by now, I can no longer put my trust in them. I wish the company all the best and hope they manage to get everything sorted out eventually. Hopefully they will learn that t

Nothing beats this keyboard.

Well I haven't really been following 'Erik' but this is what I received in official emails, to put things in chronological perspective. I'm a total sucker for niche PKB devices but the internal components in the world of cellphones do age very quickly, and there might not be another PKB device when this one becomes obsolete, which begs the question of whether it's worth making the jump to VKB earlier and sort of gulp down the distasteful medicine that we are a dying breed. 😅 But that would be a logical/rational decision and I'm emotional and stubborn about the things I want. 😙 The

Merry Christmas God Jul 聖誕快樂 メリークリスマス Feliz Navidad Buon Natale Joyeux Noël Vrolijk kerstfeest Giáng Sinh vui vẻ Veselé Vánoce Feliz Natal 성탄을 축하드려요 Wesołych Świąt С рождеством! Santa is on the way. And it is a long way from Rovaniemi. Joulu

Just wondering how many of us actually have the device we're here to talk about, now that it's almost Christmas.

Still far too low to actually say anything. To accurately estimate the results with smaller groups requires relatively larger sample sizes. And the results are very biased, a specific group of people visits here. The results are fun, but don't really tell anything aside from maybe that more people didn't get the phone then people who did get the phone.

Yes could have put it more politely, But I have always been a bad teacher that hated to repeat the same thing, that was already said (by my self or others) The magic is in the word "random", as it in many contexts are seen as "any", but not in math. IF we had picked a truely random set of all members, and they ALL had answered THEN we could have used it as representative. It is like an election poll, it is NOT a simple task. e.g. If you take an exit poll at 11 am, it is very likely to have an overweight of those that (for what ever reason) are not busy at that time of the day, so you

To put it more politely than Eske 😉 – "representative" is not about the size of the sample, it is about the selection of the sample. A random subset is never representative and therefore does not allow to extrapolate observations onto the whole...

It's over nine a thousand!

Only because we have no other data does not mean this data is true or better than no data at all...

Because a small, random number of cases is never representative for a much larger total. One of the fundamentals of statistics (which, if more widely known and applied, could theoretically prevent a massive amount of prejudice in this world, by the way)... In our case we simply don't know how many of the pre-orderers who never came here in the first place got their phones and how many didn't. It could easily be that within that group the proportion of those who got their devices is significantly larger. But maybe it isn't. We simply cannot know.

Santa is here in Finland now. I just saw him!

This poll is not representative whatsoever, it is not wise to make conclusions based on this

My friend had all three, I was extremely jealous of him.

We have lost our 1st place. Xmas is good time to ask friends and family to vote Pro1. Happy Xmas fellas!

OK, admittedly funny. 🙂

Awesome. Remember that it also offers US-International, as well as standard US

FYI, I have imported the Pro1 FinQwerty v1.5.1 key character maps (kcm files) into my LineageOS builds. If there are other kcm files that people have worked out for the Pro1, I'd be happy to add them as well. The current FinQwerty maps add support for Czech, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish, as well as the alternate German mapping. For reference, you can find the patches required to add additional kcm files to a device build here: https://github.com/mccreary/android_device_fxtec_pro1/commits/lineage-16.0/AsantiKeypad The last of the three is not necessary for the stock Pr

Settings, Mobile Network, select tab for Sim, Advanced, Access Point Names (Select an existing or Add a new one with info from carrier)

The Open source FinQwerty extends the layout to something I would have expected the Pro1 had out of the box. Including an improved German for qwertZ, but also other layouts. So I will highly recommend that people consider it over the default "German" as this is currently implemented. Especially shift doubling for Fn on the yellow-printed keys, except the letter keys. e.g. Shift+1 gives "!" and not just "1".

*shortly 😁

Come on mate, call me out by name 😉 The reason i'm complaining is simply because the author didn't tailor the review to any particular audience. Is it for a general purpose smartphone user? Is it for a keyboard enthusiast? Is it for a power user? If it was meant for Joe Sixpack, play some games. Take some social media pictures. How does that work? What about the keyboard? Of course there's going to be a learning curve. Getting acquainted with a new keyboard was always a day or two long process that wasn't that hard at all. h This review was all over the place. The whole thing c

I've created a small tutorial that might help you to get around some quirks you might have with your F(x) Tec Pro1. Let me know what you think about it and if you have further suggestions which I can add to it :) It's available both in German and English and you can find it here: https://www.dragonbox.de/index.php?fc=module&module=ybc_blog&controller=blog&id_post=9

They put them on the curved edges. But since the curved edges distort what is displayed, you won't notice them. Joking.

2020 is a leap year so 366 then 😋😋

It is very fundamental statistics, that one can not draw conclusions from a very small dataset.... Theory 1, all the people that got it voted, and only the few of the pre-orders. Theory 2. all the waiting pre-orders have voted, an only a few of those that got the device. Both of these wild theories are HIGHLY unlikely, but the numbers could back either of them. But of course does not make either of them true...

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^this is the reason I put my Pro1 back in it's box and only use it whenever i'm on the go: Android is fuarrrking garbage compared to Maemo, ergonomics, apps and bugs wise. Speaking of the screen, I still need to nag Chen into sending me a replacement display because of a stuck green pixel on my Pro1.

I'll be tracking hin with the Freedar app.

Fröhliche Weihnachten!

Launchtime https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.quaap.launchtime/ Is a somewhat unusual launcher which works fantastic with the keyboard! just make sure to enable rotation! It has some nice features like: Keyboard works Search with wildcards Autocategorizing of apps It looks a little ugly in the default settings, but if you set nearly everything to transparent it looks pretty nice. This is the first one I tested which does not try to improve the normal launcher but does something different.

This also shows that to date, they have supplied less than a quarter of all orders (9 vs 42 (9+33)).

I can not wait to hear their verdict. But on the other hand I can do without the whining that I expect would follow by some of those still waiting for one, for thus bypassing the queue.

And for T-Mobile, in particular: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2090

I fail to see the resemblance....

Most of the emulator games and such allow remapping, and I think you'd be fine being unaware of the limitation since most keys that can block eachother are quite nearby to eachother, things like diagonals on wasd keys (actually wazs seems way more practical on pro1 but that's another discussion) pose no problem, even while using keys on the other side like jikm etc as abxy buttons. Unless the game in question is fixed to a very awkward unfortunate mapping I forsee no problems :-).

Multiple keypresses, any combination of 2 works, combinations of 3 or more depends on their location due to a hardware limit, but the layout of keys that can block eachother is good enough that you woulnd't have trouble in most conceivable scenarios (including emulator gaming and the likes). Ctrl, shift, alt, and fn (the diagonal arrow) are fully independent of eachother and the other keys. Edit: an additional detail is that if you press for example 3 keys where one of them does not register due to the other two being pressed the first ones pressed take priority, and if you let one of the t

I have looked at fixing this in software, last few commits here: https://github.com/netman69/android_kernel_idealte_msm8998/blob/lineage-16.0/drivers/input/keyboard/aw9523b.c A patch was sent the right way already :).

That bug has been fixed with the latest OTA update, yes 🙂

also grabbing the phone itself for people with large hands/fingers could cive accidental screeninteraction. At first thought we would perhaps like larger display than touch area, but that will be bad for things that expects edge interaction e.g. the scroll bars in android settings...

I would venture to say most of us don't want any of that, having a keyboard gives me full control of that myself..... however that doesn't mean the toggles to turn it on/off shouldn't be there for people like you that dont get annoyed by it, I usually just turn that stuff off if its enabled. Now that wouldn't be bad. A one line bar of suggestions. There's an app I've tried key mapper, doesn't require root, for this. (In fact I factory reset and unrooted now and its working fine). I started a thread about it.

Got mine! From a retailer, but since it was about as cheap as fxtec was selling them - I don't know why I shouldn't have jumped ships. As far as I could figure out, it works (with android). Gonna take me a while to figure everything out. German retailer, about 720 Euro, next-day-delivery. Thank you, you know who you are! Edit: it's quite thick, but the sound and keyboard are awesome.

It would be good to have an option to define custom layouts as well. I have not even tried to locate appropriate files under Android but I hope the system can be easily modified to achieve this (however, I strongly think root access will be required), so I mean a somewhat similar way what worked under my N900. For me, I would be happy if I could easily use national (Hungarian) characters with the help of Pro1's modifier keys. (I mean characters like áéíóöőúüű / ÁÉÍÓÖŐÚÜŰ) On my N900, I could write very fast using my redefined layout and the modifier key. Pro1 should be mu