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Everything posted by EskeRahn
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Unfortunately no. It will be interesting to see how they'll crack that one. Not at all easy to make a case for a slider.
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From the per-order page LAUNCH OFFER: All pre-orders will receive a free pair of Limited Edition F(x)tec earphones & F(x)tec Pro1 case (My emphasizing)
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Just tried to compare with the widely praised E7. The tilt of the Pro¹ seems almost identical, maybe 1-2° more flat than the E7. I for one started with a tilted one, and considered it a step back with the flat Xperia Pro and BB Priv. Especially the cleaning of the 'rails' of the flat sliders is a nightmare, as it is almost impossible to get to. I usually tried to fiddle with sticking in a somewhat stiff piece of paper like an old ticket, and a lot of blowing. The N97min was MUCH easier to clean. I think that it was designed to ALSO be able to be used comfortably on a table.
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Steven, It is a perspective thing of the photo. From the engadget hands on here, we have this And Venturebeat have this here I haven't measured, but the 25° tilt does not seem far off... (Why it is labeled 155° in the description is beyond me, as 0° would thus be display facing down, but luckily this is NOT a clamshell)
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Steven, I too hope for open access to the layout, and hopefully even without rooting. And there is a thread also with that here.
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Various questions to the PRO1 not yet answered
EskeRahn replied to zernag's topic in Pro1 - Thoughts & questions
Well I'm with netman here. I would take almost any physical version of the device to get a real landscape keyboard slider. I'm in no way in love with the edge design, as mentioned very early on, I too would have preferred the whole thing reduced. But I'm quite sure they have taken long and thorough considerations on what size and design to go for. I mean I'm sure a simple flat screen is still cheaper so if they believed that is what people want, they would have gone for that. By going this big, the keys are 10mm apart so some people with fine fingers could even do full ten-finger typing -
Miss the sound of a real keyboard slider?
EskeRahn replied to EskeRahn's topic in General Discussion
Ah sorry, misunderstood you as the links did not work. It is the time offsets that are incorrectly ignored, yes I can reproduce that bug.. -
Currently they seem to operate with THREE levels. (If I get it right...) The "my account" for us as persons (and potential customers in the shop), and then an "account" for the forum derived from that, and finally a "profile" as how we appear in the forum for others. When logged in, we have these three: * https://www.fxtec.com/my-account * https://www.fxtec.com/account * https://www.fxtec.com/user So no wonder if we as users get a little confused here....
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That was odd. Could it be related to your two different names? Try making them temporarily equal, and see if that does the trick (and then of course change it back as you please afterwards)
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Miss the sound of a real keyboard slider?
EskeRahn replied to EskeRahn's topic in General Discussion
The YouTube links works fine here (tried FF and Chrome) could it be an adblocker or similar that is blocking it from popping up? It comes up as a dark overlay gallery window, most likely done as a pop-up. -
Under "My Account" and Notifications we can select/deselect newsletters
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On the change of avatar, it is not that intuitive, as they work with both "Account" and "Profile", I was quite confused by that too.... E.g. Click your user name on a comment OR from your account, this will bring you to your "Profile", and here click the cogwheel
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Hi Craig, Well I'm a moderator in here, but have no access to the user accounts, only the comments. The Forum is very new, so I guess more functionality will be coming, like flagging for moderation - that I hope we will never need of course. :-)
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Let me put it this way, have you tried using a laptop opened flat? ;-) I for one LOVED the tilted screens of the Nokias over the flat slide of the SonyEriccsons. On a device with the keyboard in the 'wrong' direction like the BB Priv, a tilt would be odd though.. As a benefit, the mechanism with two 'arms' of different length of the Nokias was much easier to blow clean from pocket lint and the like than the straight sliders, that are quite hard to clean if dirt gets into the rails. So I for one is VERY pleased that it is the approach they have chosen for the Pro¹. The only minus is
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I'm not talking in absolutes here. Just that we should be aware that things can have a flip side. I use fast charging from time to time, and also uses wireless charging. Accepting the extra toll. But I would not use fast wireless charging all the time, no matter how convenient it might feel. Yes charging with 250mA is a joke - that was the point.. (hence the LOL). It might be academically optimal but not a usable method in real life. Think of it like human health. We know that eating junk food is bad for us, but doing it occasionally is not a big deal, but if we do it every day it is.
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Do you also miss the snapping sound of a real keyboard slider? If so the XDA-developers preview got you covered over here https://www.xda-developers.com/files/2019/02/Fxtec-Pro-1-Sliding-Keyboard.mp4?_=1 It itches in my fingers to get my hands on it *LOL*
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achat_marken, just saw this post, That could be the reason. I do not know. Indeed wired charging ALSO warms up the battery, and the faster the worse. The issue is that it warms more with wireless, as the waste of the transfer through the coil ads onto the heat generated by the charging it self. So if you want to be kind to the battery you charge it wired over night by e.g. an old 500mA charger, or a PC port. But indeed the USB port is a vulnerable part of any phone, so this could also shorten the life of the device before service is needed... So we will need to handle it carefully, and b
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From the per-order page LAUNCH OFFER: All pre-orders will receive a free pair of Limited Edition F(x)tec earphones & F(x)tec Pro1 case (My emphasizing)
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Keyboard print layouts and functionality
EskeRahn replied to caymen's topic in Pro1 - Thoughts & questions
YampA, As I said I will do my best to push for that, and hopefully it can be done without rooting needed, without violating any google-rules (I haven't got a clue on what rules there are) -
Wauw 95%! where did you find that? Sounds like a miracle to me. Even a transformer with an iron core to help the magnetic transfer would have trouble reaching that. But yes 50% is a bad charger, 60-70% typically would most likely be more fair in 2019. And indeed as you mention in a car it is often vertically mounted, and that helps by simple convective cooling. The slower the charger the less the waste, and that means less heat, and thus less trouble. Region/season also matter, as, to LiIon, "Hot" already starts at around 30°C. So even a small raise in warmer climate matters. As a ge
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Keyboard print layouts and functionality
EskeRahn replied to caymen's topic in Pro1 - Thoughts & questions
JjyKs, the BB keyboard software have a couple of clever tricks up it sleeves that makes it a bliss to use more than one language. I even have it using English AND Danish at the same time, and it auto detects what language I'm typing, and adjusts the spell-checking and word suggestions, so we often do not even need to request the national letters. If the techniques are not bound by patents I certainly hope the Pro¹ will be 'inspired'. -
Wireless charge is quite handy, but has a backside. Wireless chargers all has a rather limited efficiency, typically 50% and you should praise yourself lucky if it is 75% The rest end as heat. "And so what?" You might say. Well the WORST thing you can do for the overall life of a LiIon battery is to charge it heated... And as user replaceable batteries are getting rare, the lifespan of the battery really matters! So we should either charge very slowly wireless, or use cabled. And fast charge wired should also be used with caution, especial when beyond 50% capacity. Do not misun
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Various questions to the PRO1 not yet answered
EskeRahn replied to zernag's topic in Pro1 - Thoughts & questions
David, Florian and others. Personally an edges screen or not is not a big issue. As I see it, it is already quite wide (as wide as the Samsung S8+/S9+ phablets, and if we should have any practically protective bezels, it should be even wider, or with reduced display. Both of which I believe would scare of more users than the edge design. Since there seem to be this silly fashion that phablets go bigger and bigger all the time. Personally I already ordered some tempered glass protectors for the longer S8+ and S9+ (one is 0.2mm less wide, one is 0.2mm wider) and hope it got the same curvat -
Ignore this post, see below Oddly I had difficulties finding this on the new site too. But if you go to this and scroll down, it seems to pop up