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#559
Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
The device looks very nice in the renderings.

However I do have some concern on the mechanicals; I have had E7 before, and have on one occasion had the privilige to hold @eekkelund's N950 in my hands and in both of those there is the same difficulty.

The slider mechanism is fairly difficult to open even with 2 hands, and pretty much impossible to do with one hand, even when you have dry and warm hands.
With cold/sweaty/greasy hands it gets even more difficult.

I have almost dropped those while trying to push open the cover to get to the keyboard!

Now it may be that I am just a mämmikoura and not nimble enough to handle such techniques but I hope this will be both easy to open and firmly closed when required.
It seems, you did it wrong, then
My GF had (actually, has, because it's still there in the drawer...) a E7, too. And she really loved it... She even asked me just a few weeks ago, if it was possible to install SFOS/Android on it so she could use this old device

The keyboard was extremely snappy and easy to open (at least with two handy, why would I open it with one?). I think the trick was, you had to push the upper part "down" into your hands, not just "up" like on the N900 - and then the slide mechanism just snapped up and revealed the keyboard...

In this video you can see it: https://youtu.be/sQO_gkXQALg?t=3m55s
 

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