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I never got around to answering this question. I have always wanted a keyboard phone, but haven't had any except my work issued Blackberries (and nothing recent even there). One reason was timing-- I always seemed to have a good phone that I couldn't justify replacing when a keyboard phone was available. The other reason was that, although I loved the concept, they were mostly too small for my hands to use easily. I am looking forward to having a phone I can actually type on. I am a writer (not of any note, I just like to write) and I look forward to not just being able to read notes and

Always interesting to see the variety of people's personal preferences. I'm always amazed at people who love the BB keyboards when I find them nearly unusable-- too cramped for comfortable typing-- which makes me worried about the talk of licensing actual BB keyboard. I'm actually not sure it would require a license, by the way. To me, a portrait keyboard would be a hard sell unless it was redesigned so that the keys had many of the characteristics of the slider keyboard, though obviously fewer keys. So I'm happy to have F(X) Tec tackle portrait keyboards if enough folks would buy them,

That's not exactly what I remember, although I don't know where to go dig up the info. I thought they had it in the FAQs but I don't see it there. My recollection is that they promised Android Q but not when and that they committed to providing security patches within 90 days. I would be surprised if the team has been able to work much with Android 10 since it came out in late August. If their implementation of Android 9 is mostly vanilla except for the launcher, porting to 10 should be straightforward, but still not sure of the time scale on that. I assume it doesn't start until the P

This is a fragment of another post I made in the Pro 2 speculation thread, but I think this statement belongs here as well: "Although my personal reason for wishing F(x) Tec success is to get myself a keyboard slider with modern specs, my greater overall reason for wanting F(x) Tec to succeed is to show the industry there are rewards for [offering more choices in phones]." We are indeed rooting for you folks, F(x) Tec. Thank you for all you have struggled through to make this happen and for not settling for good enough. May it result in many people in the tech industry scratching their h

Funny, but how appropriate, that a thread intended to speculate about a future phone turns into a journey into the past. As the song lyric goes, "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til its gone." Except we knew what we had. Here's hoping we can get more of it back, but also open the door to exciting new ideas. Most importantly, user centered design. Although my personal reason for wishing F(x) Tec success is to get myself a keyboard slider with modern specs, my greater overall reason for wanting F(x) Tec to succeed is to show the industry there are rewards for

I would seriously consider a clamshell the same size as the Pro1, although it might have to be a small fraction thicker to not have screen mash into keyboard. I don't know, not an engineer. I love clamshells, but the Gemini is just too big for the phone aspects. Love all these old phone designs. Man, those Nokia designers of old were amazing.

I probably won't be in the market for a Pro 2 unless I want a second phone (or it takes 10 years to come out ;-) ), but here is what I would want. I personally would not want a smaller screen or keyboard, but would like to see a smaller model for those that want it. I will never buy a phone with a less than 5.7" screen again, prefer 6.0+" I would like a removable battery and a means of externally charging the batteries (cord or cradle). I would assume a more recent Snapdragon, but really don't care if it's up to date. I want a phone like this because I write stuff, not play games. ;

Here's a previous discussion of the Verizon question. https://www.fxtec.com/forums/topic/fxtec-on-verizon/ I'll be taking it to Verizon too but have nothing to add to the previous discussion. It should be fine, but won't have a firm answer until we get them and try. :)

As has been pointed out elsewhere, they have not yet passed their target. There may be a delay, but until there is one officially announced, why get excited. They have until September 21st to miss the "Summer" projection and until September 20th to miss the "mid-September" projection (10th-20th). Those were "begin shipping" projections. The might actually not yet know if they will hit those targets or not and hope springs eternal. I don't mind if at the last minute they finally say, we tried very hard, but looks like it will be a couple of more weeks due to unforseen circumstances (that

I'm just curious. What exactly did you ask them that this was the reply to. I just want to make sure you were asking about the first pre-order batch and not orders. (I'm grasping at straws :-D).

The only thing we know about Lineage is that it is being "worked on" by Lineage devs, not in house by F(x) I don't believe. I would not expect it to be an option soon as I think they would need a final version of the phone to work with. I will jump on it as soon as it is ready, but I think it will be a ways down the road. However, don't mistake me for someone who actually knows the answer. Just my guess. :-)

I've rooted every phone I've had since my HTC Nexus One. The only thing that changed over the years was how fast I took to do it. I waited 2 years to root my Nexus One (largely because I had to research everything and make sure I knew what I was doing with a lot of help from folks at XDA), it was one week for my Nexus 6p (because by that time we had Nexus root toolkit and I had a very stable reliable alternate ROM, Dirty Unicorns). I haven't rooted my current Moto G6 I picked up for $99 when my 6p died last April, but that's because it is an interim phone and because I don't have high confi

Ahh, thanks. I see now. I don't use a fixed holder so I hadn't considered that. I have a cup holder that positions any large phone perfectly for GPS use. ;-)

Sorry, I'm not sure what this means. How is the USB-C port not aligned, so that you can't charge it with a cable in the car. I'm not challenging. This is probably showing off my ignorance and probably that I missed something somewhere. Just looking for clarification. Thanks. :-)

By the way, whether the pic being discussed here is real or not, this German video released yesterday, pretty much puts to bed that the split screen usage advertised is quite real! ;-) https://video.golem.de/handy/23425/fx-tec-pro-1-hands-on.html

Yes, that includes taxes (state taxes if you are US). If you log out and look at the buy page you will see the price of the phone ($699 if US).

Actually, I find it strange that Chen communicates on TMO but not here on his own forum (wonder if he would have to wait to be moderated, lol). Don't get me wrong, I understand that with limited time, TMO probably reaches a broader audience, although fixing this forum might change that. Still, an occasional pop-in on this Forom. maybe in a pinned thread, would be a nice gesture to the paying customers. ;-)

I don't think any Android launcher has holding down a key as an action because, I assume, that's not really meaningful with a touch-screen keyboard. Nova uses an add-on called sesame shortcuts, which I haven't tried. It's more of a set of trainable search functions tied to shortcuts. You can assign pressing a couple of keys to an app, but I really like the idea of being hold a physical key to launch a program. Unfortunately, that means, unless the Pro 1 becomes popular, you'll be stuck with the F(x) Tec launcher for that ability.

So, I'm just curious, are we talking about using the phone one-handed? I don't tend to use my devices one-handed, possibly a hangover from using my Palms with a stylus. Even my blackberries I typed on with two hands. So at first I was confused about why holding down Ctrl and typing c or v would be hard. Now I'm curious what using sticky keys would be like. While I've always wanted a keyboard slider, for various odd reasons, I've never had one. Blackberry keyboards were always so cramped for my big hands that I never wrote more than I had to on them, but that's what my work issued. I

Also, hopefully it's an expanding market, at least internationally. If the Pro 1 does well, there may be a growing number of people who hesitated at buying the Pro 1 who might then decide to buy in on a Pro 2. F(X) will never have the market power of an Apple or Samsung, but there is still room for growth in a vertical market.

Most spec sheets use "MicroSD" loosely. SDHD and SDXC distictions are related to capacity. The Pro1 spec sheet says it takes cards up to 2TB, which means that it must take SDHC and SDXC cards.

I generally go caseless myself and carry my phone in my left front jeans pocket. Even my large Nexus 6p. Actually, the 6p was one of the few phones or PDAs I have had which I did get a case for, a massive battery case and it still went in my jeans pocket. I personally hate things hanging off my belt. And I just dislike cases. I prefer the feel of the phone unless it's too slick (which the 6p was). And yes, everyone knows I have a phone in my pocket (and that's it's not that I'm just happy to see them). :-D In 16 years of using phones and PDAs I've never had a serious drop occur. I probabl

For what it's worth, here's an update from Liangchen, from 24 Aug: "> [attachment file=33868]

This is more a thread for reporting apps that work well with landscape keyboards than a thread to make requests. I also use DejaOffice. Are you saying that on the photon the on-screen keyboard came up? I have used DJO in landscape on my Samsung Tablet witha BT keyboard and there is no on-screen keyboard. I would certainly expect that with the Pro1. Once I have the Pro1, if I see anything that would benefit from tweaking or some feature, I will take it to the developer who is pretty open.

Very quiet in here-- guess we are all eagerly awaiting the second week in September. Be curious who is going to the New York event. Anyone planning on shooting any video like at the German event? Can't wait for the feedback, as I said before.