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You were right with you assumption slion, on the device heading for the MWC, Just got a newsletter saying so :-D

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Well shani I think that Likes can be pretty useful in forum, rather than a lot of people writing 'me too' in a bunch of different ways. A simple Like can help others see that several share the view-point. (I assume that is what is meant by the suggested "ratings")

Spotted this on twitter, that shows a bit more of the keyboard https://twitter.com/thefxtec/status/1097878591797428231

I hope for 'hard' key surface too. The Priv does it in a 9.4mm 'thick' slider body, so far from unobtainable. Also look at the click-on keyboards for the Samsung Galaxy devices adding only 3mm. I'm not a big fan of 'rubber' surface keys like many pocket calculators, so hope that it will not be like that. But i'm not so optimistic hoping that they can squeeze in pc-keyboard style individual key-mechanism giving the same click all over each key. I guess that the activation and 'click' will be by clicking a 'dome', like its is used for (almost) all compact keyboards. And often under each pc

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Here is what we currently know on alternative operating systems. Tech savvy users will also be pleased to know that we’ll support other independent, community-driven OSes beyond Android. We’ll offer loaner devices and driver support (under NDA) to core developers. We’ve already approached to some Lineage OS developers as a first step and plan to work with Sailfish OS developers & other communities. Our hope is to build a handset that runs your favourite OS. from the January 16 newsletter https://www.fxtec.com/the-keyboard-smartphone-youve-been-waiting-for-software/ (I have merge

Well Craig we DO have some bits and pieces on the size in the newsletters and the updates from the Moto Mod that can be pieced together. I have ESTIMATED it to be ROUGHLY 151 x 74 x 13mm here. But please don't take these as accurate, it is from what we can deduce of what has been said and shown on some prototypes. ..So it is fairly sure that is going to be easier to pocket than the Moto Z series. And certainly easier than a Moto Z with the QWERTY MOD. ;) ADD: The real size was not far off : 154 x 73.6 x 13.98 mm. (so slightly less wide, and slightly thicker than my estimates)

Good news osamagirl69 If you look at the images in the newsletters https://www.fxtec.com/otherhardwarespecs/ https://www.fxtec.com/the-smartphone-you-thought-you-couldnt-have-keyboard/ You can clearly see TWO Ctrl buttons on the five rows keyboard. :-) (And the @ on the 2 key the 'standard' way)

I too prefer a lesser size. But I look at it from a very practical angle: 1) A rather small portion of users still want QWERTY hardware keyboards 2) Only a portion of these want sliders 3) Only a portion of these want landscape sliders 4) A rather small portion of users still want phone sized devices. So aiming at all in the same device would most likely be for a such limited user segment that it would become very expensive to cover the development, and that would reduce the potential user group further... So I would MUCH rather have a phablet sized QWERTY-slider that can be realis

I'm not sure if I get your idea completely Phoenix. Do you want it limited to the fractions represented by one character (that can be hard to get to) like "¾" or as a sequence of strokes like "5/16" ? To my knowledge the only predefined fractions in unicode are these seven+two ⅛ ¼ ⅜ ½ ⅝ ¾ ⅞ and ⅓ ⅔

Personally I would love to see multiple keymaps like the above added for every key on the keyboard (including spacebar, arrow keys, etc), just have them set to default keys upon launch, but then let users modify the keymaps to whatever they want. This would let users specify whatever key combinations they want, non-english layouts, unimplemented custom keys (like home/end/pgup/pgdn/insert), etc. Sounds great to me lameboyadvance, and especially if the key-mapings could be saved in a way, so us nerds could share them with less tech savy users.

Reply to static_typer, February 18, 2019 at 11:08 am Obscure choice of key positions. The numeric keys are misaligned with the alphabet keys by one position to the right. For example, above the ‘Q’ key are 2 and 3. On any standard keyboard, it should be 1 and 2. I too find that rather odd. I do understand the WHY to centre the letters to ease two-thumbs usage, but to me the price of the misalignment is not a good balance. Another way could be to move the plus to a secondary position on the minus key. Though an important symbol, the plus is used far less than the dash and the digits for

Some questions has net not been answered initially at the official launch. I will move them here from other threads, to keep them together. E.g questions such as regional availability, layouts available and specs not yet published (or hard to find). (above edited after the lauch)

to this from the above So I’d always take another symbol key over a shortcut. I'm totally with you on that, dicer :) On my old keyboard case for the Iphone 6- I loved that there were keys for a range of combinations of shift keys. I even made a small table I had on the device, to find the more odd ones, I did not remember.by heart. And I would have loved easy access to even more. - The most common emojis too.

Just a thought that might work. a 'macro' like shortcut that could send a series of key strokes. It is possible in Android, I know that e.g. "Android Assistant" and "Greenify" does that to 'kill' a program (opens settings and 'presses' stop). Other use the same idea. It is the "Accessibility" interface. Imagine the users has a program where they always start by selecting a particular tab or function... In an advanced version AND integrated with fingerprint authentication, it could even send passwords to program login for programs not supporting fingerprint authentication. Of course this

Personally I never really uses the short cuts except by accident. But the idea is nice, and hopefully the user can customize them as they please. I'm not sure about Android but on Ios to my surprise some programs correctly reacts to Ctrl-short cuts like Ctrl-Z, as well as C,V,X,... So that kind of 'short cuts' I hope will be supported too. :)

I hope so too, but would put phones such as the Sony Ericsson Xperia (Neo) pro on the list too. I loved my Nokia N97 mini too - except the display that was horrible in sunlight. :)

Here a common thread for the wish for alternative print layouts, and keyboard functionalities.