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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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...

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Small phone? Looks huge to me.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If it allows for installing of custom ROMs then I'm much more likely to get one. GrapheneOS support would make it a no brainer for me, although that's very unlikely to happen.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

The GrapheneOS team has mentioned that they're partnering with a new OEM going forward. My speculation is that it'll be Motorola.

In any case, the bluetooth keyboard that Clicks came out with might be the best way to get a keyboard on a phone.