You’re in luck. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClicksPhone/comments/1rg082s/clicks_communicator_coming_in_azerty_qwertz/

It’s not impossible for custom ROMs to exist. And possibly GSIs.

Maybe being a enthusiast niche device (and a unique one) could mean a bit more dev attention.

This IMO is great news. It should be powerful enough to do everything you could want from it smoothly, at least on this kind of device.

Pinning your versions just means updating will be a pain, and you’ll probably start running outdated containers that are security risks.

It’s not like you’re doing code audits every updates anyway. Just use containers that are established and seem trustworthy. It’s all you can really do.

It’s existence alone didn’t bother me, but the day I went to install something with APT and it force installed the Snap was the last day I ever used Ubuntu.

Snap - fuck you

Unnatural. Should be illegal.

Just start with the base launcher. They’re all decent nowadays. If you really want to change it after a while Lawnchair is one of the favorites.

Really though each side is more and more similar. It’s a phone, it isn’t all that different anymore. Phones are boring now.

With the Razr I will say get in the habit of using the outside screen as much as possible.

Flatpak is a way better implementation

8 bucks is definitely 10 bucks in my book. 6.99 is 5 but above that and I start thinking 10.

It’s default installers aren’t as newbie friendly IMO. And the defaults/theming are a bit bland out of the box.

Some drama on their licensing situation:

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/issues/8886#issuecomment-3837091846

They’ve said the bootloader will be unlockable, but ROM support we’ll have to see. It depends on the community.

GrapheneOS has insanely specific requirements that keep them only on Pixels unfortunately.

Well compared to everything else coming out it’s small…

It’s basically as tall as the discontinued iPhone Mini, while being about as wide as the larger models.

The Spacebar has a built-in fingerprint sensor, which could be handy for unlocking the phone quickly. The keypad is touch-sensitive, which means that you can slide your fingers over it to scroll through messages. And before you ask, yes, it also has a 4.03-inch OLED touchscreen display for those of us who like scrolling on a smoother surface.

Some of you may also be pleased to know that the Clicks Communicator has a 3.5mm headphone jack and that it supports microSD cards for storage expansion. It ships with 256GB storage and you can add a microSD card with up to 2TB of capacity.

The device runs Android 16, supports Qi2 wireless charging, has a USB-C port, and has a 50-MP rear camera with optical image stabilization, alongside a 24-MP front camera. It’s powered by a 4nm MediaTek chip that has 5G support. It’s a dual-SIM phone with one physical SIM slot and an eSIM

It also has NFC for mobile payment support. I’m not seeing many compromises here except perhaps the camera and processor. I’m gonna use this as my next phone.

The Clicks marketing team has been marketing this as a “second device”. I think that’s a miss-step. Very few people want to have two phones. They exist, but it seems like this device should be a completely capable phone on it’s own. It’ll be a niche device either way but I think the “people who want a small phone with physical buttons” niche is larger than the “people who want two phones of of which is small with physical buttons” crowd. And it causes confusion. Some people saw the announcement and didn’t realize it’s a full fledged independent phone…

Firstly you most likely just cannot. Device support is very narrow.

But I have a phone I got secondhand just to play with it. I want to love it, but it feels dated. The gestures make using a lot of stuff hard. But the biggest thing is that in my country I can’t even make calls due to no VoLTE support. Kinda kills even using it daily even as an experiment.

I did submit a pull request to add Colemak keyboard layout support to the keyboard though, which was accepted. So technically I’m a contributor :)

Cloudflare. They sell and renew at cost ($12 iirc)

I hear Porkbun does/did as well but I haven’t looked in a long time.

It is, they’re partnering with them to make a customized version for the phone.

True, though they do have help from some people who worked at/designed the old BlackBerry and have shipped several well received pieces of hardware before.