silversolver

OK, fine.....I'm not ready to commit my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor to the survival of F(x)tec, but at the same time, I'm not going to withdraw any portion of my already committed financial support for the sake of mere convenience. I guess that sums up what galls me about the situation: some people were willing to put their own convenience and unwillingness to further delay gratification ahead of the well-being of the very organization who made that gratification possible. It seems short-sighted to the extreme and more than a little selfish. They got theirs sooner, but made it less l

So, not to sound like Grandpa, but how on earth does wireless charging help anyone and why is it considered desirable under any circumstances? I see absolutely no advantage to it at all, and some pretty serious drawbacks in efficiency and longevity, to say nothing of the high probability of massive additional EMR exposure at some point. What is it about wireless charging that makes some of you sad that the Clack doesn't do it, and what does it allow you to do better than what you could do without it? The adapter pad seems to be the worst of all worlds, in that it has all the drawbacks, but los

As much as I love root access, I'll probably do without it for awhile on my clack when it arrives as it sounds like there's currently a certain amount of disruption in making it work. Perhaps @Waxberry will get the software people to add the root access switch in developer settings like LOS has. Not that this is terribly important, but I know I would appreciate it, and I'm sure I wouldn't be alone.

So clearly something is odd with the way it processes rotation information, perhaps a bug in the magic added for the keyboard slider. I'm certain that it's all in software and will be resolved in time.

I agree that delivering to resellers in any quantity before all preorders were filled was inadvisable, though perhaps it was unavoidable and necessary for good reasons. We all make our own choices. To me, to do what you did was also inadvisable from the standpoint of giving F(x)tec and the Pro1 the absolute best future possible. I sincerely hope that the future is so bright for both that my concern proves utterly unwarranted. I am very conservative by nature, and do not like to take any unnecessary risks with the things which are truly important to me. I think cheating was a poor choice o

Will a little shakey-shake help anything, or does it get shaken clack syndrome? :)

Bluetooth keyboards are THIS:

You and me and @Polaris are having the same party. :)

You do make valid points that it's not a total loss for F(x)tec. I still believe it would have been better, even much better, to not, but you have pointed out some net good that survives. Thank you for that. It's good to have someone around who will look for the good in a situation. :)

Perhaps cheating was not the correct word to describe my feelings on the matter. Clearly you did not read my clarification....I'm not in the least bit upset that I don't have mine already. I understand exactly why they aren't here yet, and as such I'm willing to cut them far more slack than it appears they'll need. "All you did" was far more than "use an opportunity." You took money away from F(x)tec by buying through a reseller, who will keep a cut of the profit. You took away an opportunity for a member of the general public to discover the Clack, thereby taking away an opportunity to b

Certainly no one can criticize someone who supports the project so much they bought two, by whatever means. I like your idea of having one to use, and one to use as a test bed for development. I have entertained the idea of doing the same thing. I would imagine your second device will arrive soon. You are definitely not the (type of) person to whom my grumpy-old-man sounding rant was directed. I know for a fact that a number of people did in fact buy through resellers and cancel their pre-orders, and it was with those people in particular that I was perturbed. We really need the Clack to

I cross-posted because I had said similar things to two different people in two different threads, and felt both grouchy-sounding posts deserved additional explanation. 😮 I can't deny that it's probably not as big a deal as I'm making it, but on the other hand, no single snowflake believes it is to blame for the avalanche, but it is nonetheless partly to blame. I sincerely hope that F(x)tec is going to be in business in 100 years, but if they're gone by the end of the year, will short-sighted people who just refused to wait any longer be at least a little to blame? I think the answer is self-e

It sounds like you're agreeing with me, especially your last sentence. We need to wait for our pre-orders to be fulfilled, and leave the retail devices, however annoying it is that they even exist before all pre-orders are fulfilled, for the general public.

My point exactly. Is that how we ensure that this phone has a future? It's not boycotting the retailer to leave the devices they have for non-enthusiasts. @Rob. S. Sometimes things that we can legally do are still not wise.

This raises the question, to which I don't know the answer, is the layout creator program something which could be shared so that end users can create their own custom layouts and import/share them? @Anssi Hannula has been doing amazing work on this himself, but perhaps he would be open to sharing the layout creator so community development is also possible.

Well, @sequestris is, as she (mis)quoted me, "such ....... a girl." :P Shoes and phone shoes. :)

Let me clarify my feelings on this: not only is it rude to cut in line, but it is incredibly shortsighted. This is a very special device, and we are its enthusiasts--the Guardians of the Clack, so to speak. If we do not do what is necessary to make this device a success, and it fails, the odds are good that no one will attempt it again. While it is annoying that some retailers got their devices ahead of us, the wise response would have been to leave those devices for non-enthusiasts, shopping for their next impulse buy phone, who then could come to love the Clack, and become enthusiasts,

Let me clarify my feelings on this: not only is it rude to cut in line, but it is incredibly shortsighted. This is a very special device, and we are its enthusiasts--the Guardians of the Clack, so to speak. If we do not do what is necessary to make this device a success, and it fails, the odds are good that no one will attempt it again. While it is annoying that some retailers got their devices ahead of us, the wise response would have been to leave those devices for non-enthusiasts, shopping for their next impulse buy phone, who then could come to love the Clack, and become enthusiasts,

Would I be a bad person if I thought the screen breaking is karma for cutting in line? Sure, the lawyers for the resellers made it possible, but cutting in line is bad behavior. Period. Those of you who cancelled your preorders in favor of reseller orders all seem to be so smug that you got yours ahead of the rest of us suckers who are still trying to do the right thing and wait our turn. I'm really tired of hearing about it. If you're going to cheat, keep it to yourself.

I really don't care to hear from smug people who managed to use the lawyer-muscling of retail partners to cut in line.

I like the look of the Cosmo too, except that the keyboard is such that you pretty much have to lay it on a table to type. People who already own them have confirmed my suspicion that it is really a UMPC with a phone in the back of the screen rather than a true smartphone with a keyboard. I'll probably get one eventually, but as a curiosity, not a phone.

@Polaris I suspect I'll run the D4 until it stops working just to annoy the whackos at Verizon who think I should have binned it in 2014. :)

@elvissteinjr Brave, by far. Of course that's just my opinion. I support what they are attempting to achieve, and they're making a fabulous product in the process. I use it desktop and mobile almost exclusively--exclusively on my devices new enough to run it....as mentioned elsewhere I do have some shockingly old machines still in use. On them I use FireFox or its derivatives.

I tried it and was unimpressed with it, though I don't remember exactly why. I think it was because it wouldn't take GPS coordinates instead of an address, relying on What3Words instead. Also I seem to remember it struggling with many normal addresses. I tried really, really hard to like it, because I liked what it was. I just couldn't do it. In the end, I settled on Sygic Navigation. I'm still using the free version, which works fine if you don't need turn-by-turn and can just follow the line on the map. /edit It gives you a free trial of the full-featured version when first installed, s

Finns aren't known for starting wars, but they are getting quite a reputation as programmers. Also for being very entertaining with hydraulic presses. :P If I ever go to Europe again, I need to visit Finland.