EskeRahn
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They might as well not bother to bring the soon to be obsolete 4G phone to market. I do not see any reason to spend this amount of money for old tech. They need to re-think this and understand what the people want when they are ready to buy a new smart phone. They want a State of the Art phone with the latest processor, best camera and highest picture quality screen and support 5G. There is time to redesign this phone. If they don’t this phone will be sales flop or worse yet never be made and never see the light of day. They disappointed everyone when they did not bring the Motomod
keyboard out. DO NOT MAKE SAME MISTAKE.
You would get a terrible experience with a 5G only phone, as the net is just starting to roll out. and it will take years to get total coverage, especially in rural areas.
Most devices still supports 2G for the same reason.
IMHO it is always nice to have the ability to fall back to the slower older generation of networks, when the reception of the newer is poor or non-existent.
And while some of us are so eager to get a keyboard phone that we might be prepared to pay for things being the absolutely newest technology, this might well loose some users in the other end, not finding it worth the money if it was say over £1000. And with fewer users the development costs would need to be distributed over fewer devices, sky rocketing the device price further.
So though I personally would have liked a newer chipset too, I do understand the choice to keep the price down.
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Hope they can fix it easily.
But more generally for others: Please note that the difference is the power plug only. The Pro¹ is one version all bands.
So even if someone accidentally ordered the wrong variety, it would just require the use of a local charger or a conversion plug.
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…and the function: *unread* + *files upload*
Perfect!
At first "Thanks" can feel a little awkward when not talking an answered question. But I for one plan to use it also as "Thanks for posting this", that is sort of like a "+1" or "Agree", (as on your post)
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I hope this hasn’t been asked before, but will the pro be certified for ARCore?
It has been asked before, But I do not recall that there was an answer... (And I don't know the answer) But seeing some of the devices on the list, I do not see what should prevent the Pro¹ from being able to get certified. Though I guess they might want to be a little closer to final production design before sending a prototype for certification.
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We are making functional upgrade. The next will be “quote” and “thank” functions. :)
New thanks and quote functions works just great, thanks :)
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I too would like FM, but I doubt very much that it will be there when not mentioned in the specs.
I would like DAB+ too, but that is even more unlikely....
And indeed Radio over data, can easily eat 0.1GB/hour (DR.DK Danish national broadcast eats that) so for those having a few hours of daily transportation this can add up to a substantial amount for a month, e.g. 20x(2+2)|x0.1GB=8GB
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gtmaster303 , a skin and a screen protector sounds great. I think I would prefer that. Especially if it is a tempered glass protector.
Perhaps rather that the protector case go for two different variations.
1) Skin for scratch-protecting and grip.
2) A more expensive full case with a flap
This would appeal to different user groups. Though better protected I personally would find a flap case too annoying and bulky. For others the skin protection will be too little protection.
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However it is made, I see it as a software add on and not a part of the device. To me it sounds more like an idea for an app than a request for a basic function.
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Just a thought on how to save a little battery.
Normally when I put my phone in the pocket it is top down. So what if the shake-function checked with a relative low frequency whether the device was clearly top-up (that is within some limit from vertical), and only when, checked for a shake with a higher polling rate.
This might reduce the consumption in pocket or on a table.
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Totally agree with you elvissteinjr and netman (again)
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Though search is a nice feature it is way too unimportant to have a dedicated key for. IMHO
And as Benjamin said above: "User-configurable" please. :)
Generally I do not like the idea of any 'action' by a single key (And this goes for the F-logo key too...)
Simply because the relative small keys inevitably will lead to accidental key-strokes. But where pressing the wrong letter is easily remedied by backspace, launching search (or anything else) requires a close of the program/function, that is not easily done from the keyboard, (though some might be reacting well to Esc)
I remember one of the slider keyboard cases I used for the aPple Iphone 6-, had a square key, that gave the home screen. And I cursed it every time to an extend where I dropped it in favour of another where the same square was at a Fn-level.
So I would suggest that (calling the yellow arrow Fn here) ALL actions/launches should be with a modifier only. E.g. Fn+Logo for launching the suite, Fn+Q for launching search (a capital Q both looking a bit like a magnifying glass and being the first letter of Question).
And it will be elegant if people can assign short cut actions to key-combos of their preference. For some "Search" would mean search the device, for others it could be launching their favourite search engine in their default browser, (Personally I never use a search on the device, but others use it a lot)
Personally multpile modifier keys would be great, to give access to a range of layouts, to ease the access of foreign language characters and all kind of symbols, including emojis.
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Same problem, Slim Saint Andrew crosses.
I guess the picture upload service you are using are somehow inaccessible
If I click one of the images I get this security message
EDIT: Seems to not be a general issue, but some over zealous Danish security thing that blocks the site....
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testdevice, your image links does not seem to work here.
I only see two saint Andrew crosses
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IMHO the right-shift of the A-Z should be limited to languages with no national letters, that is the US/UK layout only (AFAIK)
Even the Canadian QWERTY layouts would expect national letters between L and Enter.
So for all other layouts keep the A-Z in their standard positions, and use the keys to the right for national letters.
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I'm with netman here. I too believe it could sell better with the curved screen.
Look at it this way: Us dinosaurs that want the traditional bezel-fitting of a flat screen are most likely going to buy it with whatever screen it is made, to get the keyboard. On the other hand younger potential buyers might find it too much old-style with a traditional display, so here the curved display might tip the balance.
I must say that I was strongly opposed to curved screens until I got the Priv, where I found it to not be as problematic as I expected. Actually I get more erroneous interaction of my Samsung S8-. My GUESS is that it being slimmer, make the pick-up slightly different, and this increases the risk of interacting with the edge. Also because one hand operation of the display is completely out of the question with the Priv. With a little effort I can one hand operate the keyboard though, on both the Priv and the S8- snap on. And to some extent manage to use the S8- display with one hand also, though with far from trouble-free interaction.
I also expected the more unprotected display of the S8- to be a problem over the Priv, as the Priv got the two tiny metal protrutions top and bottom, perfectly protecting the tempered glass protectors I use. However. I changed them when they broke every 1-2 month on the Priv, but on the S8- where it is much more exposed i'm still at number two after half a year....
So that all makes me worry less on a curved Pro¹
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On the suspected problems with interacting with a curved screen while opening, I would say we should wait and see how things actually work. I heard none of the previews complaining on it.
Doing a little calculus on "Dimensions: 154 x 73.6 x 13.98 mm" and "5.99-inch 2160 x 1080" gives us that the display area is 68.0mm wide so that would leave 2.8mm bezels on each side. And this might well be enough for pushing the edge NOT to interact with he display.
On a Samsung S8- the similar calculus gives 1.8mm side bezels on each side, and here I do experience occasional unwanted interaction. So hard to say if the extra mm is enough to remove the problem or not.
But IF it should be a problem, I guess it could 'easily' be solved by software, by making a thin zone ignoring touch and act as display only.
It could be of user selectable size, and perhaps dynamically change size, so it was zero width once opened or in portrait, and inactive ONLY when closed in landscape shortly after a rotation from portrait or a move to landscape from being still (i.e. lift from table). So it was only inactive shortly before an expected attempt to open.
ADD: A less advanced version could be to be able to select to have the device act not as the 18:9 but 19:9 or even 20:9 while closed, and thus simply not use the long edges while closed. That is adding "software bezels".
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½ pound, afaik. I do not know why the specs does not tell the weight. My GUESS is that some details can yet be adjusted, so they wont promise an exact weight.
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Nice DreamFlasher (though if the Scandinavian is to be printed we would like to have "Z/Y" and "Y/Z" also, as we use QWERTY as a base).
(And perhaps Psi would me more natural to put on the national key right of P rather than on Y, and Omega on O not W? like this )
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Ah, yes you are right, sorry, there is a limited time for edit. (which makes a lot of sense).
And indeed let us hope other users chip in. I have no idea of the distribution of interest/preorders cross the globe. (nor on what layouts they prefer)
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If you edit your 'old' comment with an updated picture/link, i can remove our replies, to avoid confusing other readers. :)
BTW there is an odd BUG in the forum, so if you edit a comment multiple times within a relatively short time span (an hour?), it gets caught in the spam-filter, assuming you as a spammer, posting the same again (it fails to see that it was edits....).
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Cool elvissteinjr, much easier to quickly make suggestions :)
PS: I believe you swapped Ä and Ö usually (AFAIK) on German keyboards is ....JKLÖÄ i.e like this
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bob3k, Have you tried a Samsung S8+ or S9+? The width is right between the two, and the Pro¹ a bit shorter. Remember that it is 2:1 not 16:9 so 6" sounds larger than it really is. It is substantially less wide than a BlackBerry Priv (with the keyboard in the wrong direction)
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I agree with Netman here.
barmas, Remember that sliders are still a niche product, so the production volume is going to be low, so the development cost distributed per unit is MUCH higher than for a device sold in many millions of specimens like say a Samsung S8/9/10.
...Actually I had expected it to be priced higher for that exact reason....
Does it have FM radio? IRT?
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