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Plastic actually makes phones more resistant to drops thanks to better shock absorption than metal. On the N900, the plastic is kind of soft, with detachable parts, a brick form factor, bezels, and a soft resistive screen. All this probably made it a very decent stunt phone; I have not seen many pictures of N900 heavily damaged after drops. I expect the Pro¹ to be a lot less drop resistant with his harder body, much larger screen area, and curved glass with no bezels. Not planning on trying.

Unless you use it with Sailfish. it is far less demanding in terms of performance, partly because it is not cluttered with feature updates eating more CPU at each version, and most of all there is no hardware limitation past a certain version. Of course there are drawbacks, and SFOS on the Pro¹ won't even be official. But it is worth mentioning that the short-term obsolescence is mostly a software issue with today's hardware, since we already reached somewhat of a plateau a few years ago. Most flagships now put forward new gadgets or marketing gimmicks instead of performance leaps. Since

I understand your concerns and the frustration any change of plans on the case may cause. I do realize that the case, be it free or not, was a very important asset in the bundle that made some people commit to payment. However, I am afraid that those who did so because a case would be included were a little light when taking this decision, given that they knew nothing about the case, its thickness, whether it would protect both sides, and what are the real solutions for phones without bezels. And compromising the phone design to make it work better with a case would not necessarily be a good m

People have to realize that a clunky case — and they said it was altering the mechanism — wouldn't make anyone happy either. The potential shitstorm on social medias could even be worse if cases are carefully manufactured but make the phone hard to use. Sometimes, sticking to the initial plan when first trials show that it just won't work is beyond reason, even if deciding to alter plans is tough. I trust F(x)tec and believe small companies with low inertia know how to do what is best given the constraints. F(x)tec already demonstrated their attention to details and priorities when design

That's actually reassuring, I was starting to think you had opened the Pandore's box there. 😮 I didn't follow @Jhonny B's case, I'm merely a TMO member who's keeping an eye here now and then, but not very actively.

*Wave of e-mails from people realizing they could have sent a message to ask whether they are in the first batch.* *Pain* *Error 404 on fxtec.com*

Can we just let the 29th happen and draw conclusions afterwards, instead of writing pages of complaints on the 28th following a message that stated that they are still on schedule? Of course the vague communication can be annoying, partly because it shows a lack of confidence in what customers could interpret from more details, but our tendency to speculate on the hidden truth every time they say something is partly proving them right. I would love to have more details too, but the overall hostility here suggests that more transparency (including on bad news) could be used against them just th