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Posted by microflash 7 days ago

Clicks Communicator(www.clicksphone.com)
421 points | 260 commentspage 5
bicx 7 days ago|
The back panel design, shape, and customizability reminds me a bit of the old Moto X that Motorola built while being owned by Google. Brings back some nostalgia.
steviedotboston 7 days ago||
I've been very impressed by the attention to detail Clicks puts into their products. It might be a niche but it seems like one that deserves to exist.
ksec 6 days ago||
I submitted this as well and I think it capture something much deeper than the product itself. I think there is a market for Blackberry type of devices again. Not for messaging but for business.

Apple could have made an iPhone Mini with customised OS that does not cater for massive screen and social media entertainment.

But Apple is too focused on making money from services sector which is the App Store.

paulhart 5 days ago||
I'm more interested in the Comet - https://mecha.so/comet - as a thing to support in pre-order. They will be launching their Kickstarter soon, and the founder is very active and transparent on their Discord.
mghackerlady 6 days ago||
I'm hesitantly excited about this. On one hand, I've been wanting something like this for years and it's literally everything I want in a cell phone. On the other hand, this isn't the first time I've been hyped for a product like this and been burned. I'll be pessimistically optimistic
jadbox 7 days ago||
Sounds like a competitor to the Minimal Phone?
websiteapi 7 days ago||
I'm surprised this is a thing. with the advances in STT I want the other extreme - a smaller and smaller device that leverages better voice control - super efficient inferencing chip on board and low power mic that's worn on your person to make said STT very very accurate (>95% word accuracy).
drakythe 7 days ago|
The thing I am always curious about with voice controlled devices is how do you use them in public? On the bus? Subway? How do you discretely check a message while in a lecture hall?

Voice control makes for a fun scifi gimmick but it is incredibly impractical in real life without an alternative interface, in my experience.

wowczarek 7 days ago|||
This. Speak to type I can understand, to a degree, but for proper voice control to be quick and effective and anything more than a gimmick, it would need to rely on some shorthand - kind of how full-on screen reader action for those visually impaired is very intense - just the other way round.
websiteapi 7 days ago|||
You would still have a screen. The device itself could just be smaller.
drcongo 7 days ago|
One of these running linux would be nice, but definitely not buying one to run Android.
gumby271 7 days ago||
I wish they'd specify if the bootloader was unlock/relockable. Could have been cool to see GrapheneOS support.
Fnoord 7 days ago|||
This device misses some of the requirements for GrapheneOS. It wouldn't be as secure as a Pixel.

Just get a Pixel with GrapheneOS and put one of ZitaoTech's USB-C BB keyboards under it (or get a BT one).

gue5t 7 days ago|||
It's a MediaTek SoC, so the Linux experience will be Bad to say the least. This thing will be running the oldest kernel possible with all kind of nasty vendor hacks.
muppetman 7 days ago|||
Wouldn't you want battery life of more than 2 hours though?
adenta 7 days ago||
why not?
drcongo 7 days ago||
Had to use it at a prior job and hated it. Plus, you know, Google.
automathematics 7 days ago||
I'm with you. But what phone are you using day to day? I keep watching for linux phones or even start to wonder if Apple is finally the "lesser of two evils" :/
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