PieFedClicks Communicator is like a modern BlackBerry with a few new tricks (but it's designed to be a secondary device)
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Clicks Communicator is like a modern BlackBerry with a few new tricks (but it’s designed to be a secondary device)
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The idea is that this is a phone you can use to communicate on the go, while leaving your primary phone at home.
So we’ve come full circle, with mobile phones now being big and bulky so we get mobiler phones that are slightly less huge. What nonsense. Just fucking sell me a small phone!
Brave Little Hitachi WandJust sell me a wireless telephone receiver that I can plug a wired handset into. I used to love taking calls like that, wire coming out of my jacket, walking around. Huge asshole I probably looked like, but it was funny.
Galaxy Fold 7. It’s awesome. Apple will invent a folder in 2027.
Are you kidding me? That’s a huge phone you can turn into a tablet. The outer display is 6.5”. If anything, I’d want a flip and only use the outer display, but I’m not paying a thousand bucks for a phone with a gimmicky hinge that I don’t need.
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TrackinDaKrakenWho needs a “secondary device for folks willing to juggle two smartphones”? Who would want this?
“Well, see, I have my phone in one pocket, then I have my second phone in my other pocket…”
“Are you a drug dealer, or something?”
“No, no, no. It’s just that my secondary device does fewer things slightly differently, so sometimes I decided to use it instead of my phone.”
“I don’t get it.”
“Look at the keyboard, it’s like an old-school Blackberry. It’s cool, right? Don’t you think it’s cool?”
I did really like my Blackberry Q10 and this looks like it could be a fitting spiritual successor. I’m keeping my eye on it.
Unfortunately Clicks didn’t provide any of the actually useful information for determining whether it’s a phone worth buying. RAM and CPU (not just a vague notion that it’ll have something modern) are important factors though most people will be fine enough with anything that’s outside of low-end. They also don’t say anything about whether the bootloader can be unlocked so I have to assume it is permanently locked, which guarantees that any niche following the Communicator gets will be stunted and die with the device.
It also seems like Clicks has a UK address despite them shipping from the USA, so that’s an immediate veto for me. If they shipped from the UK or any other American country that’d be fine with me.
I do agree with this. I’d love to know more about the software, especially about how long it’s going to be supported. I hope they release more info closer to release.
I admit im kind of tempted, but it feels too much like vaporware right now.
real_squidsWelp older android blackberries with physical keyboards are still around, if you don’t need the latest and greatest you could always try those
As far as I’ve been able to find, they’re all on the 3G network which has terrible coverage to no carrier service at all.
Call me when someone puts GrapheneOS onto old unsold Blackberry Passports. I’d be all over that. I think I’m one of the few who LOVED that design swing-and-a-miss.
I wasn’t a fan. But the older handset RIGHT after they traded the clitwheel for a micro touchpad (for scrolling and clicking) and before the keyboards started collapsing; that was the sweet spot for me.
I’d switch from this to that again in an instant (with a headphone jack and Qi and reverse-qi, that is, as I have those now and they’re life-changing).
“Here’s a dumb phone to take with you so that you can leave your smart phone at home and not be constantly addicted to it.”
Ummmm….have they forgotten that tablet’s exist? Just get a dumb phone and use your tablet when you’re at home. You don’t need another fucking device.
My smartphone has nothing on it as far as games, social media, etc… It’s got calendar, phone, email, etc…
The fun stuff in on my tablet at home.
Why the fuck would I need another device so that I can keep TWO devices at home?
This is just idiot marketing departments trying to wriggle their greedy little dicks into a population that is waking up to their own technology addiction. Here…fight your technology addiction with…more technology.
Humanity is fucking doomed.
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I think there’s a good reason we moved to on-screen keyboards. Better utilization of screen real estate. That display is absolutely miniscule. And they’re only going to give it 2 years of updates. So pretty much just a worse device on all accounts, in my opinion.
Better use of real estate for consumption. For pretty much any sort of input, whether that’s text or controls, onscreen buttons have always been terrible and workarounds like Swype only helped somewhat, and now even that’s getting enshittified. This is going to be a more niche device, as blackberried were, but for people who need a device primarily for email/messaging/other text input on the go the screen is plenty big enough to work and a keyboard is light-years better than any non-tactile technology could ever be.
Agree to disagree I suppose. But I have XXL hands and fat fingers so maybe that’s why.
onscreen controls are garbage. also 3.5mm.. better then any phone on the market imo
Lots of devices still have 3.5mm. Unfortunately this premium feature is reserved for otherwise-garbage-tier devices.
still better then dealing with samsung
A $500 “secondary” device when I can already buy a Pixel for $200 and install GrapheneOS on it. Oh, and it’s stuck with the QWERTY layout, who would buy this?
If it didn’t run Android, I would tbh
As if there’s any alternative to Android. Ubuntu Touch or KaiOS will allow you to send SMS and pretty much nothing else, opening email from a web browser will instantly dump 20% of your battery.
Gotta start somewhere
isn’t ubuntu touch decent battery wise? at least that’s the experience I had on a msm8937 device I ported xenial to based on halium 7.1 a few years ago.
I think QWERTY is popular enough
Said like a true unilingual English speaker.
I think I will get one to mess with, and wait for a Linux distribution I can install on to it.
I don’t see how this is “designed to be a secondary device” it basically has all of the features of a midrange phone. Sounds like the marketing is just playing it safe?
I’d love to Daily Drive this thing