Doktor Oswaldo

To be clear: I do not feel betrayed or something by FxTec. I am not angry at them. I just wish the phone becomes a smashing success. In my eyes it is important to not send potential customers away angry. Because every customer you get at the beginning results in a lot of potential customers. It would be a pity to do genius hardware and then loose the customer with unnecessary stuff like that. This conversation drifted completely in the wrong direction (mainly because of me, sorry). So please focus on my feedback not on the legal stuff. Please write an email to the time if you are one

A last update to point out what I wanted to say. I will not discuss the issue any further (promised :-)) I don't care if legal actions are possible or not. But they did some shady moves. I don't recommand anybody to try any legal actions at all. While I am sure it is a contract I think you likely lose because of special conditions of pre-orders. All I say is: FxTec must work at that. Stop communication wrong dates. Stop saying the price will only increase outside of the US and then increase it everywhere. And stop this preoder thing. Sit together look what happened, make a statement and

Nope, wrong. And wrong again. Firstly what is about items that are paid and not delivered? If we follow your statement that would be okay because there is no contract because the item didn't got shipped? BS. You are even entitled to get your damage paid because something you ordered did not get delivered or not in time. For example: If you order 200 Sausages because you want to sell them over the lunch, and the butcher is to late (lets say 2:00 pm). The butcher will have to pay your damage if the delivery time is part of the contract. The question is not if this is a

Thank you, works like a charm!

Chen said this on TMO:

I would totally buy that too!

I do not know the specifics in the UK but I would be astonished if this would not be a contract there. That would mean that the contract law works completely different there than in the rest of Europe. You agreed to pay a certain amount of money and FxTec agreed to deliver you a device => contract. Legally 'pre-orders' do not exists, these are just contracts of sales with a certain condition (later delivery date, maybe uncertain delivery date). Well since FxTec gave us the possibility to move back from the contract without any damage this may allow them to do the same. But I doubt

Some of us can't change the username here, and it is not the username anymore but the first part of the Mail-Address. Update: It seems to be already resolved

One thing: For a lot of people the username has changed to the first part of the mail address. This is not to bad for me but it displays some peoples real names. This must be fixed asap!

This finally looks like professional work. A big improvement on the design front!

Yep! I asked for multiple times and hinted that that system will be used against them. I do see it as the right step do cancel the open preorders, but that should have been said when asked. Since we pointed pointed out that the system is flawed I cannot agree with that move. It may even allow to take legal actions against them. Of course I won't take any legal action against FX. But they should really be cautious. That is not the first time they do not hold onto Information they give: Delivery date on website, price will only increase outside of the EU, cancellation of the preorders. Whe

It should be possible to write a programm which does that. Basically you could assign keys to simulated touchscreen input: iew.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() { public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) { Toast toast = Toast.makeText( getApplicationContext(), "View touched", Toast.LENGTH_LONG ); toast.show(); return true; } }); // Obtain MotionEvent object long downTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis(); long eventTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis() + 100; float x = 0.0f; float

I would also gladly forgo without headphones just to be a bit more eco-friendly. As many others I have more then enough in-ear buds and the fxtec one would be thrown directly into my drawer. Depending on how the case is looking I would pass on that too. But: There was no official statement that the case and the headphones are not delivered. Sure they could be delivered afterwards, but they should inform customers about that! P.S. I think the only valid options here are with or without. Asking for something other (skin, shirt, etc...) does most likely not help fxtec. A shirt may be chea

Nope, US-intl all the way. But I can live with an additional week or two.

I don't think this is the case. The second batch should cover most of the phones, and FxTec said that it will be done a week after or so. So it should not make a big impact. But I know the feeling, cancelled my preorder and did a new one because adress change wasn't possible. Didn't knew it was relevant for the delivery date... However a week more or less does not hurt me.

At least my gmail marks it as advertisement, so a lot of people may not see the mail. It is really hard to get an estimate of preorders with all these mixed signals, but it seems that you are happy with the number of preorders. Hopefully there are enough sales for a pro2 or at least LTS.

Since there is a lot of fuzz about the things that gone wrong (especially in other forums), I wanted to point out what this project has achieved so far and how remarkable that this is. This guys refused to let people down after the MotoMod Project got hit They started a own phone manufacturing company without using Crowdfunding They designed and tested a hinge so good, that nobody worries about it at all Every feedback from prototype devices where positive, including articles from tech magazines Answered a lot of questions to the phone at the beginning of the project D

Could you also turn the flap? So that there is a QWERTY on the front site? I would actually like that for a portrait keyboard phone. You could easily use it like a blackberry but flip the keyboard away to consume media. This is an interesting concept. Still don't see any gain in the number-keyboard, so would prefer QWERTY on both sides or something like Media keys on the back (maybe even joysticks). But after all I still prefer a Landscape Slider!

People here are absolutely right. Communication is not the best. And yeah they somehow promised us the device earlier (Just because you write "we are planning" does not mean that you don't know what expectations you raise) and did not communicate us the delays soon enough (the last one has surely be known earlier, I think they wanted to do it after IFA, to not have the last delay in all the reviews). Furthermore nobody from the Team has posted here in a while and we have to scrap updates from the maemo forum (well not anymore...). So there is reason to be angry or sceptical, but I am not.

Why does this have a qwerty keyboard which you have to flip out AND HAS EXACTLY THE SAME SIZE AS THE NUMBER KEYBOARD? That drives me crazy.

Ah who cares for NFC? But a removable battery means you need some kind of a bay with a contact else you can just throw a battery in and attach a flexible connector. Sure you could just do the same design for replaceable batteries, but it is possible to attach these flexible cable connectors wrongly, isn't it? I once lost a floppy drive because I connected the IDE cable one off (did it without looking). It got smelly pretty fast. Luckily I stopped the power input before my pc was as hot as my mixtape :D

Sticky does not hinder the normal tipping. You can still just press shift and a letter. The only drawback is, that if you change your mind you have to cancel shift.

This may be a solution (and thank you for the hint) but it may also hinder the tipping flow. Depending on where the letter is you need, you have to press and hold both the keys with your right or left hand. This most certainly requires you to shift hand position. I already see myself dropping the phone.

I would like to hear an official statement if the sticky modifier keys will come or not. This is a must for me since I ordered the US layout and plan to use the us-international layout. So I will need the combination from AltGr+ letter a lot. How should you press AltGr+P without placing the phone on a table? I may would have opted for the German layout if I knew this. But honestly I am still a bit shocked. Was there ever a good hwkb phone without sticky modifier? But also apart from my personal use case. Everybody needs modifiers. They even advert the possibility for ctrl+c/p on their

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