Waited weeks for this and was so excited it finally arrived today. Unboxed it, put it on charge, and…nothing. Won’t boot up, no signs of life. He’s dead, Jim.
Now I have to send it back and wait who knows how long if I want a replacement. Probably just going to ask for a refund; I can’t wait another 4-6 weeks or wait for one to ship from the September batch. Ugh!
Mildly infuriating, highly disappointing.
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You got the extra minimal version at no additional cost, how lucky.
Sounds pretty minimal to me
Not sure if it will help but sometimes charging overnight on a 5W charger can get it going if the battery is just really dead. Probably the easiest way to ensure you’re getting 5W is a USB A to C cable connected to a PC or laptop. If you have an older wallwart with a USB A port it’s probably 5W charging as well. Could be worth a shot before sending it back.
Out of the loop here. Is this that new trump phone?
Kaley Cuoco has put on some weight since the big bang theory ended.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the use case of this phone. Like, what’s the benefit of this phone as compared to another smartphone, if used in a restrictive manner? Besides the eink, which, for me, is a huge seller.
Mostly the e-ink display and the QWERTY keyboard.
By its nature, it’s not great for doom scrolling, TikTok, or videos (the major time sinks with most phones). Those aren’t my use-cases anyway; I’m more of a reader than a watcher so I figured this would be like a supercharged version of my Kobo (which I love) that has a physical keyboard (which I have missed terribly in smartphones).
Edit: Plus, its 4:3 e-ink display and keyboard just scream “install Termux on me!” Also planned to use it as a nice portable SSH terminal like I used to have back when smartphones had slide-out keyboards.
I’m rocking an aging Cat S22 Flip right now and have been trying to figure out what to replace it with. The Minimal Phone seemed like exactly what I wanted. Sad that it arrived DOA and am probably not going to bother replacing it; waiting weeks for something that arrives DOA is a hard thing to recover from.
The Minimal Phone features a tactile QWERTY keyboard, expertly designed for efficient typing and ease of use; making it ideal for productivity and everyday Communication.
😅 Should we enlighten them about other layouts?
Yeah! Where’s my Dvorak mobile tactile keyboard?
I will say, as a Dvorak user, I think it would be awful for mobile. I don’t know the mathematics for calculating it but Dvorak assumes four fingers per hand spread evenly across the keyboard.
I wonder what the most efficient layout would be for single digit letter pecking. I can imagine it would be different to both Dvorak and Qwerty, but what exactly it would be I don’t know. Maybe separating most likely next letters by side and having some consistency of vowels on one side, consonants on the other, but all of the stuff about rolls and sequences would be completely changed. Maybe differently sized buttons for more common letters, or reducing the number of shown letters to have a few flick letters that you swipe in a direction to get them? Maybe just having the top ten most common letters displayed as single buttons and then the remaining 16 as four swipe keys?
MessagEase is a nice keyboard built for mobile devices, using 9 keys for typing with swiping to access some of the letters.
Numbers and special characters can also be accessed without having to switch mode.
I’m a colemak typer and I switched my phone to it to help when I was learning and it actually works really well since it emphasizes alternating hands it makes thumb typing pretty fluid. It does also tend to have some finger rolls which really just feels like tapping as you move your fingers back to the middle of the keyboard.
Not to say there aren’t better, I was just surprised how well it worked
8vim (8pen), thumboard.
I gotta say, at first glance it looks terribly inefficient compared to glide typing on even regular QWERTY.
You are mostly correct. These are trying to get touchtyping on mobile, not necessarily quick typing, but blind typing.
Oh I see, yeah that makes sense, thanks.
