Originally Posted by British (Post 1557641)

I smell a bit of a contradiction here: I'd have hoped that if you indeed are communicating bilaterally, you'd have more hard-fact than "having something usable sooner or later" :eek:

Apologies if I'm nitpicky (and possibly annoying) on the subject, but it's the main reason I'm even interested in the Pro1 (yes, more so than the HWKB) :(

Originally Posted by Wasmachinemann-NL (Post 1557658)

Where's the N900 vs Fxtec comparison?

Originally Posted by Kabouik (Post 1557436)

Oh no no no, we need TMO users there to ask extra questions! I really want to know if multiboot will multiple OSes will be possible, or if the phone will only allows single boots. And in the former case, will it be possible out of the box (like the Gemini I believe), or will it depend on the community being able to come up with a multiboot solution as they did with the N900?

Originally Posted by xman (Post 1557574)

DDark,

Please take a pictures of pro the to a n900!! I'm would love to see see the thickness and the overall size next to it.

Perhaps, bring a sd card with and OS you can boot from :D

maybe a little review of how it feels in the pocket. Or how it feel going from a n900 to pro and back.

x

Originally Posted by ravelo (Post 1557585)

DDark, I would be very interested what speed could be typed on this device with 10 fingers or almost 10 fingers. I did not see any video review where anyone tries to type with more than two fingers.
So maybe you simply could try how many wpm you get in comparison to the N900, maybe you could even try to make a video? I would be quite curious. Thanks :)

Originally Posted by BonoNL (Post 1557589)

It would be nice to see how Pornhub works on this device. If it doen't run smooth that would be a real dealbreaker for me!

Originally Posted by DDark (Post 1557673)

Here are the promised images, compared it with N900 and an iPhone X

https://postimg.cc/gallery/1kg8sc3qi/

My overall impressions - God, it looks awesome !! The phone looks better in person than on the photos.

The phone itself is built like a tank. The screen is gorgeous.

The keyboard is a little bit wide for my taste, but not something that would be a dealbreaker.

The layout is different from PC, there is a learning curve, but it would be possible to blind type after you are getting used to this layout(and probably it would be better for your carpal tunnel syndrome)

I don't know what else to add, I'm super excited for this opportunity to play with pre-production device and to meet cool people that are passionate with their work.

Thanks Chen for inviting me, I doubt that any other phone manufacturer would invite some random guy from the internet to play with expensive phone prototype :D



As far as I understood it won't have multiboot out of the box, but there is already work done in order to allow flashing custom rom with multiboot.



See the link to the gallery, completely missed the pocketabilty part, but the device is not much larger than my iPhone, so I don't see an issue with that.



Tried that, possible but not usable :D



We've streamed other video content, run smoothly as expected.

Originally Posted by Wasmachinemann-NL (Post 1557690)

Okay, this is Epyc. July come faster damnit!

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1557754)

Cpt Obvious asks: Considering we have no exact release date, how do you know we are close? :D

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1557754)

Cpt Obvious asks: Considering we have no exact release date, how do you know we are close? :D

Originally Posted by HtheB (Post 1557756)

It's close.... Closer than you might think...
Just saying

Originally Posted by tmi (Post 1557755)

[I]"Shipping globally is estimated to be July 2019"

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1557760)

'nuff said.

IOW, we do not know that we are close.
We only assume.

Originally Posted by Thoke (Post 1557813)

I must say the supported lte bands make this device usable in many parts of the world!

Originally Posted by HtheB (Post 1557817)

Many parts of the world?.... Which is...?

Originally Posted by Thoke (Post 1557818)

Yeah, that might have been vague :o I mean North America & Europe. Don't really know about other places as I only checked the bands of those two regions.

Originally Posted by jurop88 (Post 1557820)

HtheB take a deep breath, relax and re-read Thoke msg. And please remember that you are on talk.MAEMO.org, albeit in the competitor sub-forum. Moving from being an advocate to a fan does not play in favour of the F(x)tec Pro1.

Thanks,

Originally Posted by HtheB (Post 1557821)

Your reply does not answer the question that I asked to Thoke.
People spread wrong and false info. It doesn't matter what device we're talking about. One should never spread false info without knowing the facts.

Like I said, name a European country that doesn't support one of the used bands...

Originally Posted by imaginaryenemy (Post 1557823)

I believe Thoke was merely saying "I am pleased that it looks like this phone will work in the two regions I checked."

[...]

Originally Posted by HtheB (Post 1557824)

Ok apparently I need glasses. I don't why I read usable as unusable...
RIP :D

Sorry Thoke!

Originally Posted by Thoke (Post 1557813)

I must say the supported lte bands make this device usable in many parts of the world! However it's hard to see this phone as a daily driver without scandic keyboard. I could maybe get the qwertz (german) keyboard and remap some letters (ü at least). Scandic and qwertz seem close enough. I assume this is possible with modern phones.

I'd still have to get accustomed to swapped places of y and z...

Picture of the qwertz layout of fxtec for reference. This has been posted before, though, so no new information.

I know this has probably been answered before, but is the preorder only for phones with gwerty-layout?

Originally Posted by SSLMM (Post 1557793)

Btw, is there any information about gestures with screen off, like double tap to wake screen or like oneplus has (like draw a "v" to turn flashlight on or off or media controls)?

I'm more interested to know about the simple double tap to wake screen.

Originally Posted by kinggo (Post 1557827)

And I live in a place where even laptops with localized backlit keyborad does not exist. Only english variant with printed croatian letters. And that is not exactly usable in the dark.

Originally Posted by Zeta (Post 1557879)

Anyway, pre-order numbers are now in the 17 400 range, more than 12 600 since the first numbers we have seen on this forum (~4800).

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1557884)

You think it means anything? :D

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1557884)

You think it means anything? :D

That trick has been known for at least 75 years.

Originally Posted by Zeta (Post 1557886)

Yes, it means that preorder numbers are now in the range 17400.

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1557900)

Yes, and I maintain that it does not mean anything at all. The actual number of orders could be 5.