EskeRahn

I would gladly help by sending you one, but as shipping from Denmark is pretty absurdly priced, I hope someone else closer by can help you out. It is really easy to modify a shell type of case for "Huawei P20 Pro" , so you could have anyone around you do it. It does not require much. For a soft silicon case, I would say 5-10 minutes with a pair of scissors. I have used the small scissors in a Swiss army knife for the dozen or so I've cut If you got a friend that can do it for you, i have explained it in quite a lot of details and pictures in this post: https://eskerahn.dk/?p=3620

It could be that you last time tried inside a program that tries to interact with the keyboard a little too smart. I think I recall some have reported specific keyboard issues in specific apps - can not recall neither the issues nor the app, sorry. Check the date of the update you got. The last update is from the first week of March and thus quite close to the 6 weeks ago you mention.

Got it in the mail today, and well it is not a good fit, but not hopeless either- with suitable modifications. On the plus side the the two feet on the button side lands perfectly around the fingerprint scanner, and not touching the power button. On the minus side one of the bottom feet sits right over the usb plug, but it will work practically equally well if you cut that one away! The rubber feet are designed for grabbing a thinner phone, but are just put over a 15mm long plastic pin, and can easily be pulled off and then remounted a little further out. Either glued on or remo

@Raksura moved your post quoting the recent letter over to the locked thread here

...That update seems to be delayed.... 😜

Sorry, I accidentally pressed edit not quote, and did not even notice at first. *Silly Me* Tried to post: I bought a fairly cheap one, and it seemed to work for the display - did not try to connect neither a usb-mouse or a larger usb-keyboard though. There is a thread in here on the subject some months old....

Nice, I like that the majority of the image is out of the focus plane. If too much is in focus it easily interferes with what icons that are displayed on top of it.

I too find it a bit odd that the keyboard being the number one selling point for the Pro1, I would have expected the software for it had be giving a lot more care before it hit the streets. On the first for other readers, you are talking the wish for a DEDICATED slash key, it is not that we can not get a slash (Fn+P for qwertY and Fn+7 for qwertZ )

Strictly the FinQwerty is not an active app, it just present a stack of pre-designed layouts for the system to present the user to pick from, If your system is rooted, you can alternatively copy in the relevant files, and will not need the app...

You are doing an awesome job! A suggestion for the cut-outs: Round/smooth the edges a bit, When I look at the lower corners of the usb-cut out, it looks like something that could easily get caught in fabric, of say a pocket. So especially this could be an issue for the cut-outs on the long edge. And in particular slanted edges are needed for the fingerprint reader, for accessing the reader with the finger 'in line' and not 'perpendicular' to the device (e.g. when opened). It might be the resolution of the images but I do not spot holes for the speakers. Can those be done in the print

And the majority seems to be on firefox 🔥🦊 😇

Pros and cons, a lot has to do to usage pattern. If you primarilly are going to use the keyboard on a table and not handheld. Planet's models might be interesting. Search for Cosmo or Astro or Astroslide in this forum. I have listed a few alternatives here (yet to be updated on the Astroslide)

Yes, there are photos earlier in the thread, just search the brandname 🙂 And opviously you are right, prefabricated holes are better, but i have not have any of the many different types of cases i attempted to modify tearing, so I guess the risk is more in theory than a practical problem, none of the cases have been extremely thin though.

Apart from the finger size, another group that could be problematic is people with long nails

Actually the support for hardware keyboard IS part of Android, and has been it 'always', or at the least for very long. BUT it is not optimised for it, as they clearly focus on devices with fake keyboards only. So any fancy features would be needed to by added to android. Though a lot of clipboard and text/page navigation and the like, is as you would expect it in a PC. including task-switching.

Oh indeed, from a user perspective it technically seems be good, but the question is how the code is made, and how much would need to be rewritten. Or perhaps the idea would come at other odd side-effects. we do not think of initially.

Well as you said off the shelf product. At some point they told us that it is simply harder to find displays that are not curved at the same price. I have not done any research to check if it is right, but I assume so.

Just contact FxTec support.

https://eskerahn.dk/?p=3620 The P20 Pro cases (practically) all need simple modifications, that anyone can do with a pair of scissors, see earlier in thread or https://eskerahn.dk/?p=3620

The problem with a hole is that when open, the screen edge gets close to vertical, so at whatever hight ypu would put the bridge, it will be a nuisance...

Idea: I wounder if it would work with a vertical icon-toolbar in landscape to the right, (Reload, stop, Prev, Next, bookmark, and not the least the icon for https/http)

I'm very pleased too. Note that going for a non-curved screen would mean two thing Higher price Lesser Screen-to body-ratio. (larger body or lesser screen) So personally I think it would be MUCH better to at a deep hardware-driver level at the users choice offer the display to the system as Full, 2160x1080 (18:9) slightly reduced keyboard side only, 2160x1035 (18.8 : 9) slightly reduced both sides, 2160x990 (19.6 : 9) substantially reduced keyboard side only, 2160x990 (19.6 : 9) substantially reduced keyboard side, slightly on opposite, 2160x945

I got another variant from here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/163816498496?var=463367316516 that is not quite as good as these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254181243108?var=553543447253 mentioned above The first is a bit thin/flapsy (and have a minor fabrication flaw on both I bought), the second is stiffer, and with partly matted edges.

Interesting point. Didn't notice that, thanks. I wonder if making it thinner would even be possible without seriously reducing the stability? And at the least the corners should stay 'thick' , as those are the areas most in need of protection by a case. Though I at first made (well adapted) a flip case as a 'quick fix' in lack of something better I am getting used to it, and as I see the images here, I doubt that the overhead size is much bigger than this type of dedicated case. When you make the flip case like a japanese book, opening to the right in portrait, the flap does not interfere

So you never heard about the Samsung Galaxy Fold? And that's just the first example that comes to mind. And advertising never, ever, was honest. In the best case, advertising is about presenting and exaggerating advantages over the competiton while hiding disadvantages. Ask aPple about their charging pad... But of course it is totally unfair to the industry to take to tiny players like Samsung and aPple as examples 😇 [/sarcasm]