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Okay, so the 10,000 was missing a 0. That seems more reasonable. If we got by my use case, that is about 500 days, or 1.4 years. Not great, but better than less than 2 months. And they said it can go above 100K slides. Hopefully the cable will be easy to replace and the cost won't be ridiculous (I can get a whole Relay 4G phone for not much more than the price of the ribbon cable..or at least I could when the phones were able to be bought....there might not be any new supplies left now). I'm a little concerned about that connector on the PCB, since that might be difficult to source and r

That's not how I use my phone, but I could be in the minority. I get text messages or other instant messages all through the day. I keep my phone in its holster. When I get a message, I take it out, open it, reply to the message(s), close it again, and return it to the holster (or desk/table). And without any bezel on this, I'll be sure to close it every single time I'm not holding it in case it falls. I do my browsing in landscape mode with the keyboard out. Email = keyboard out. I don't use a lot more apps as often as the ones that require keyboard input.

Is it just me, or does that not seem like a representative number of times to others too? If someone opens it once every 5 minutes, for 16 hours a day, that's about 200 times per day. 10,000 times, in that scenario, is only 50 days of use. Okay, good. I was hoping it was something like that. :-)

Thanks for the information. Do you have a source link for these details? And did it mention how many open/close cycles were done before the connector wore out and, assuming they did testing with a new connector after that that lasted longer than the best cable, how many cycles did the best cable last? Are you saying they will only make parts available to businesses that repair phones and not to consumers who buy phones?

Oh, and it was also mentioned that there are 4 screws required to take off the screen and 4 screws to get to the battery.

Something to add to this topic. I watched a video from the German community event and the person mentioned that the USB port isn't soldered on. It is a separate PCB plugged into the main PCB. That should make replacing that component easier, in theory.

Agreed that it would be difficult for a small company to build their own modularity framework. It wouldn't be feasible for 3rd parties to jump on board with building modules. Even with Motorola, that's a challenge. However, if google did it and made it part of the ecosystem, then it should start off just fine. It is funny how everyone is so concerned with thickness of phones, but the world is okay with monster width and height. I guess you do get more screen in those dimensions, but it still seems funny how obsessed they've become with thickness. I do agree that, in the meantime, com

This has been discussed in various threads on other topics, but I thought I'd start one specifically for this topic. The main intent is to get feedback from F(x)tec directly, but it will also provide a place to voice consumer desires around repairability of the phone or future versions of the phone. F(x)tec, will you be publishing repair guides for the phone's components that often wear out/break on phones? And from where will customers source the parts? Here is a stab at some of the common components. It would be nice to get feedback on each item: - Screen

The point of it was that there would be standards and certifications so that you wouldn't have incompatibilities at that level. It also didn't start out with just modules. CPU, memory, storage, camera, screen, etc. should all be modularized. They were wimping out near the end of the project, where it became just modules and not core elements, that could be replaced, but I'm guessing the hope was that was just a stepping stone. I'm sure people couldn't conceive of all the peripherals that PCs could have added before they were conceived too. By opening it up, we'd find out what is possibl

Yes, I saw that this winter too. I'm still holding out hope that it will happen some day. Modularity is the reason the PC industry took off the way it did in the past. People overspending in the present seems to have allowed the phone makers to get away with not doing this, but hopefully people will wake up and start pushing back.

I, for one, would welcome our qwerty, undead masters with open arms. ;-)

Oh, I agree about it not being a flagship at the time. I also had the Desire Z (called the G2 by T-Mobile) and broke the screen 2 times. I replaced the screen the first time and then didn't have time to replace it the second time, so went out and got the Relay. I've had it on my to-do list for 7 years to replace that screen so that I can get some pictures off the phone! LOL I too was searching every few months for a new keyboard phone to come out. I thought I would have to give up and get a Pixel 3 and add a bluetooth thumb keyboard. I was even contemplating using an app that allows yo

Yeah, you are probably right. Maybe I was thinking of S4 instead of S3. And yes, it definitely wasn't a flagship spec phone when it came out. I've been living with a non-flagship spec phone for 7 years!! 7 YEARS! LOL

It seems the customs issue has been cleared up, since the phones destined for US customers are imported to a US shipping center first and then shipped from there. For anyone else reading this thread, I thought it would be helpful to post my order confirmation email and break down the pricing. As with many things, communication is important, and in this case, the communication wasn't exactly clear, so it led to some confusion. [attachment file=29539] What I noticed first, when I went to the order page to pay, is that the price had changed from the advertised $649 to $693.65. Since ther

I took him to mean that he was having it shipped to the USA, not that he was buying it in the UK and then sending it home. I could be wrong, of course.

Little did he know that there *was* an S4 with a physical keyboard at the time he wrote that article. It was called the Galaxy S Relay 4G. I just did a brain transfer from the one I was using for the past couple years to my last backup, identical phone. I've gone through about 5 or 6 since 2012, with one being dead on arrival (keyboard to screen ribbon cable only worked for a day and that is what has failed on just about all of these, with the exception of one being a broken screen). I sure hope the Pro1 comes before this one decides to die too! :-)

I brought up the state tax thing to them and was told their software has no way to not collect it. I'm in Minnesota. Until last year, most states didn't collect sales tax on remote purchases unless the seller had a physical business presence in the state. A poor US Supreme Court case overruled a previous case and now allows the states to collect sales tax even if the seller doesn't have a physical location in the state. More information can be found here: https://www.revenue.state.mn.us/remote-seller-faqs However, there is an exception for smaller sellers. This exception is Minnesota

My guess is that it declined it the first time due to being a foreign transaction. However, I have *no* idea why it would have allowed it 15 seconds later. And if it is a name mismatch in my account somewhere, and if that was the reason for declining it, then it shouldn't have accepted it the second time. These bank anti-fraud systems are getting WAY too sensitive. If they want to prevent fraud, then they should implement one of the methods of generating single use card numbers for one-off transactions. By the way, I'm in the USA. I forgot to mention that.

I should mention, as a follow up to my last post, that my first name and last name was the same on my card as the 3 locations in my account on the website that @EskeRahn posted earlier.

I received my order email today at 6:06 PM, Central Daylight Time (GMT-5). I completed my order at about 6:25 PM and received the confirmation email. However, and I just emailed the company about this, I too had my Visa card declined. The information was auto-populated by google pay, so I didn't mistype it. I immediately filled out the information a second time and that time it went through. I received a an automated fraud prevention phone call from my bank and it stated that there were 3 charges: a $1 charge, and then 2 full charges for the phone. When I checked my online account, th

How are you going to use it for voice calls after they shut down non-LTE? Do you have some way to do VoLTE on it?

I voted "other". I don't understand what features another system would have over this system we are using now. They plan to move these forums to other software too, so that may contain new features.

If anyone wants to understand what was written: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmonoworks.co.jp%2Fpost%2F2019-07-11-hands-on-fxtec-pro1-smartphone-tokyo%2F

Did the photo quality and macro capabilities change for you in Open Camera from one version of the firmware to the next?

Thanks @waxberry. Is the work-in-progress for the camera happening in the camera app that F(x)tec is supplying with the phone, or with drivers, or with hardware?