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iThings? HAHAHAHAHAHA! I've been using that for many years. Great minds think alike. :) Some people only want to be able to place a call and play fruit ninja. For them iThings are fine. I demand more. :)

Hopefully?! If you've paid your dues, it will come quite soon!

Sure, if you're in an iJail and can't do anything without the iWarden's permission, your security is going to be pretty good. Liberty is messy, but my forefathers chose it (I'm American) and I choose it too, when I vote politically, and vote with my dollars. I voted the most money I ever voted in my life on a phone for the P1, and I expect it will be worth very penny. I might actually get a few more just to have spares. This is the best thing ever, really.....a phone which is open, rootable, customizable, has a fabulous keyboard, and is built to last forever. I can hardly wait!

Ouch, but in the grand scheme of things, I think it worked out much better in the end, don't you?

I saw that, but he didn't post so here, and besides I think his iFart got hammer surgery, memory serving correctly. :) EDIT: OOPS, yes he did.......but he did penance with keyboard cases LOL

No one with physical access to my devices is smart enough to install a game since I disable or remove every single Google thing on it, including the store. :O You're worried about so-called "evil maid" attacks, apparently. I'm not worried about that, and would hardly call it a security nightmare under normal usage, but it is nice to know that locking the bootloader is possible for those who wish it. The folks at F(x)tec promised a device that could be customized to virtually anyone's wishes, and they really have delivered. Bravo! Now to get mine........:O Whenever that package arrives it'll be

I went back to my very first one in 2003. We're all friends here. Reveal your deep dark technology secrets LOL. Unrelatedly, I'm seeing no crApple products so far. We're all too savvy to buy their junk, apparently. :P

How? Are you saying that rootkits/bootkits for Android are a thing? Otherwise, what is the harm? As I see it, the only thing that a locked bootloader hinders is customization.

You can! They'll just send you one before the others. I'm sure they'd appreciate an order for 9 more. :)

Motorola V120, Mot V60, red Sprint flip thing, Treo 650, Treo 700p, Mot E815 + Treo 700p simultaneously, Droid 1, Droid 3, Droid 4, another Droid 4, Pro1 (soon). I've owned a few other things, but these were/are my daily drivers. I've never had a daily driver phone without a physical keyboard of some kind. I have tried (and hated) other devices without them, mostly belonging to friends. I almost prefer 10-key text entry to touchscreen, weirdly. I played with a BB Priv, but it never made it past testing to daily driver. I didn't like working in portrait. If anyone wants it, it's for sale. :)

HAHA! It's difficult to be consistent. Mega respect for making the effort. :) I highly recommend not using this feature on any device ever, for the reasons we've already discussed. But, c'est la vie. I also highly recommend being patient with the wonderful people at F(x)tec while they iron out these little tiny bugs. I'm sure no one bought the Pro1 specifically to use Google Pay. Keep your old phone in your pocket for that for a minute. LOL!

Phones were made for calling, but smartphones were made to be communicators in a more diverse modern world where other communications are quite common. It's still basically a communications-specific device. I would never use Google Pay because privacy, and Google, but even if I were, it's SOOOOO much more work to pull out a wallet and a credit card, or [horrors!] CASH!!! WAS this an advertised function? I didn't see it advertised. I may have simply overlooked it as it is completely irrelevant to me. At any rate Waxberry has confirmed that this is a short-term issue. EDIT: consensus i

Please take this gently, as it's meant, but.......stop acting like you're starving to death because the food wagon hasn't been able to make it through the snowy mountain pass because a mule broke its leg and there was an avalanche, and your isolated 19th-century town in the mountains ran out of food weeks ago. This is a super-awesome device, but it's not like there aren't other things we can use in the meantime. I'm as excited as everyone else, but things happen. I'd rather they get it right than get it rushed. Delays happened, but it's in production, and it's looking like everyone who has ord

Or there were a few extras available.

Very familiar. I'm using one now, LOS14. Good enough for the moment until the preciousssssss......er, Pro1 gets to me. :)

I'll take on anyone anytime. I still have a physical keyboard on my Droid 4, and will assuredly not be using anything else until my Pro1 arrives. I'm using it now....I've had lots of practice. :)

OK, not to insult anyone, but how exactly is the ability to pay for your fuel and groceries related to a phone? This is a classic example of allowing one thing in your life to exert too much control over it. I really don't want to get into a huge ethical discussion about this, but certain people here are focusing on utterly non-smartphone features that are not at all innate to the use-case scenario for which a smartphone was built, and complaining that a smartphone can't do stuff which essentially has nothing to do with being a smartphone. Smartphones were made to communicate, not to transfer

I use PayPal often, when it's available, because it's convenient. I'm not upset if it's not available though. I did hope that they'd accept PayPal for the payment, but frankly, the seller fees are pretty high, and all things considered, pulling out my card to copy the number only took another 30 seconds or so......hardly a difficulty. Again, F(x)tec is giving me what I've wished someone would for many years. Such tiny inconveniences are nothing in the grand scheme of things.

@ken5457 Is this photo editing or have you really acquired/created these bits of mad genius??! That is super-slick either way!

I'm running 7.1 on my Droid 4. Before I hijacked that ROM onto it 4.1 and the Priv I tried briefly and still have because no one wants to buy it is on 7.0 so......this is still a giant leap for keyboardkind. The physical keyboard options existant other than Pro1 are all much more dated than 9.0. Personally, think they did it right. Perfect the hardware, not focus on the next shiny thing in OSes, release now with 9, get their manufacturing stream going great guns so the orders can flow freely, and THEN focus on making a 10 update that is as "practically perfect in every way" as the hardwar

There are many batches in this world, _DW_, and none of them should be used lightly! 😨

It's because you have to bake all the hardware drivers into the image. Desktop OSes tend to have a bazillion drivers for common hardware baked into the image, but storage on mobile is much more limited, and this waste of space is more noticeable. On top of that, generic handles for things like video and storage to make something work without hardware-specific drivers are nearly universal on x86 machines (although servers can be fiddly), but ARM devices need the specific drivers for the hardware to even work in most cases. edit: lots of great answers to this question from others.

Input customization is something that LineageOS (formerly CyanogenMod) has delivered for me. I especially like long press on back to kill running app. :) I hope LOS is available for P1 soon.

This is a cool concept, and something I had never really considered. To the complaint that mobile browsers are terrible (I mostly agree) I suggest using Brave for Android in Desktop Mode. I do on my hijacked Droid 4 running 7.1 and it's very nice (if a little small on the D4 screen.) I had never really considered running a real desktop OS on a mobile device, but certainly see where it would be very doable on a powerful device like P1. However, I see a limitation beyond HDMI; desktop OSes are designed for mouse input, and generally are clunky without its precision input. I'd probably try i

Also for many devices. I have had a number of Droid devices which would reboot instead of power off when plugged in, and also would not boot (even enough to charge!) if the battery was below a certain level and the power cord didn't give it what it needed.