Doktor Oswaldo

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

Switzerland $25

I mostly agree with you, just some minor points: 1. The layout you use in Poland is probably what is called the US-International layout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#US-International). 2. This is only useful on a smartphone if the phone is on a table or the keys are sticky (sticky means the key stays pressed until another key has ben pressed, so pressing altGr and releasing it and then press another button would have the same result as pressing altGr and the key together). But this has to be done, using the android style "hold the key" is bad on a touchscreen, but having to swi

I am saying the same for nearly half a year here in the forum. But this layout should be available on most OS. It is a pity that there is no international print though. This is only true if the key is not sticky. The N900 had accents behind a sticky key and it was working fantastic. Sticky modifiers are a must on a hwkb-phone for me!

Absolutely, the ranting here is because they did NOT fix the moderation issue AND introduced design issues. The design issues alone would be no thing at all. But it should not be misunderstood. While this is a bit of a pity and some of us had to do a short rant, it is no big deal. I have still faith in the phone (I have to, already paid ...).

Said that before somewhere. I have the exact same experience. As long as I had support questions, answer was fast and clear. No marketing BS. But before I joined the forum I've written them questions about the phone. No response there. This is absolutely okay (A friendly default mail would be nice though). Just pointing this out, because this could be a reason for no/late response. Once the questions differ from the default support stuff, it may need to be handled from a person with more important tasks!

It is still a limited time period. But most of the time the moderation takes longer than that time period. If you are lucky and eske instantly allows your comment, you actually can correct the embarrassing spelling errors. But your edit has to be moderated again. Yeah sure, but it is a place to put some of the frustration. We are waiting for months for a new forum but what we get is new design. As you said that is alright as long as the phone is becoming good. But it is not the best move for a company with the slogan "function is key" to update the look of the whole site (which has no

If you use Firefox you could use that one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/. I think it also exists for chrome based browsers. Then you could write custom css for the site. I did not a lot needed, other font and a dam background so it has some contrast.

What a lot of us are talking is pre-ordering a second one not buying it. Since the preorder stays valid and can be used for every coming layout, some people want to keep the preorder price for future phones. So we just preorder and never pay unless the wished layout comes out. It is a strange system but since it only helps us, there is no reason to complain.

If at least design was key. But the forum seems to got completely forgotten in the css change. I first thought there is css missing because everything is way to light and was way better than before. But what bothers me is that there are multiple text overflows or missing paddings. Here an example: [attachment file=forum_css.png] I added a dotted line around the white container so it is easier to see. The gray text is half in the div half out. Subscribe has no padding at all to the right.

Exactly! I mean it is great news that they are using a big support network and we can send it in easily, I was worried this isn't the case with a small company like that. But I am even more worried, that I have to buy a slab again, if fxtec doesn't survive (I hope it does). Given us access to the parts means we can hold the phone alive like many people still do with the n900.

Yes it does. It has to because it changes a lot. But it is on github https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl and does nothing evil with the permissions. Just a quick tutorial for you: t to open a new tab. f to highlight links (and follow), gi go to first input (so a typical flow is tgoogle.com<CR>gu<searchterm>f). But anyway thank you very much for testing!

Chen posted a statement to the price increase on the mameo forum: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1559275&postcount=1941 Thanks for all the support, criticise and help on clarification. Much appreciate the support from the community, it's the power for me to keep things moving. We are undergoing for the first batch of production which will be finished shortly, but it's very limited in quantity. (I am sorry again to some people that we are not a massive entity that can afford a huge amount of first shipment) And meanwhile we are working on our second batch, which has also

That is not what I fear of, I am sure it will have high standards. My problem is, where are these repair guys? Will there be a repair location in Switzerland? Probably not. So what does it mean to me, do I need to send that stuff back over the border? What about taxes and postal prices? Are you gonna handle that?

This means, I should preoder now in the hope my layout will come? Won't this lead to a lot unpaid preorders? I am in no position to demanding everything, but I would suggest cancelling all the preorders once the device is officially released. Then if you want to give people waiting for scandi a change to get that price do a sale on the new layout for a short time. But now it seems to be unclear: 1. Is the scandi layout coming? 2. what will the phone cost in regular sales? 3. Are preorders valid for ever and every layout? Then I am gonna place a preoder in hope for a non shifted us lay

A small note to Firefox. It seems to be possible to install tridactyl on a mobile firefox. Tridactyl is a vim controll plugin for firefox. Which allows a *complete* control of the browser from the keyboard. I hope this will work on the pro1.

I see no problem in that, but sending mails to people with an open preoder may lead to misunderstandings.

To clarify this, since it has a lot of discussions. People which have preordered but not paid because they are waiting on the scandi layout (just an example) will pay which price? How long is the preorder valid without paying?

Please do not forget, that all 3 of the fxtec "directors" are probably using a lot of personal savings on this project. It is a big risk they are willing to take to bring the keyboard slider back (Even if it isn't their money, failing would at least mean have a failed company in your CW). I for my part are thankful that somebody is willing to take that risk. Yes the price is high, but as a lot others have pointed out it is hard to compare to other phones. But remember the money will not go to a multimillion dollar company, it will go to a start up. If you still think that should be