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An Android phone that slides open to reveal a physical qwerty keyboard inside has launched at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The F(x)tec Pro1 phone also has a bespoke shutter button on the side to click when taking photos.
The London start-up behind it said it wanted to "return the keyboard" to consumers.
Other handsets with keyboards built in, from brands such as BlackBerry Mobile and Swiss firm Punkt, were also on show.
"A lot of consumer tech still has buttons even though the tech is there to get rid of them," said Adrian Li Mow Ching, founder of F(x)tec.
"Haptic feedback never gives the same satisfaction as pressing a physical button.”
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You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the
Titanic had paying customers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @01:45PM (3 children)
Repair shop? You know, those sockets are replaceable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @04:15AM (1 child)
Barely. I've tried. And I've literally been a pro at this: I worked 8 hour shifts doing hand solder assembly, and RMA disassembly/repair/troubleshoot/fixing.
The N900's USB mount is a royal pain. I fixed one (outside of work) and I couldn't get a fine tipped iron in cleanly without touching the usb shell or other components. And those tiny solder pads are all that's holding the usb plug on, so they take a lot of stress and flexion. After a couple of hours I got it back on, but there was clearly still more flexion than there ought to have been, and within a month it was broken again. On try 2 I screwed up and that unit is now on a shelf, waiting for me to "someday" find V+/GND pads somewhere else inside to charge from.
In hindsight, I should have just built a battery holder/charger. Way easier to power down, swap batteries, and resume.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @02:50PM
FYI, when I used an N900, I had an extended battery in it, and I put a usb Li-ion charging board in the extra space inside the correspondingly extended back cover. It was wired directly to the battery terminals and charged it while the phone was running. Confused the phone's fuel gage, naturally, but I had an applet that monitored battery voltage directly instead, so I had a pretty good idea what it was doing.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday March 01 2019, @01:36PM
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