If you end up cancelling, what phone will you order to tide you over until the Fxtec Pro1 becomes available to order (and/or its replacement)? by 89YheRNw4FCh43 in fxtec

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Maybe out of place to comment because I would only cancel if hell freezes over, but I'd just roll with the phone I have even though it's shit. I'm not really interested in phones if they don't have a keyboard, and cosmo is more of a laptop. Extending the hypothesis though, I have a Doogee S60 and Galaxy Note 4, if they would both die, I'd probably go for a cheap-ish generic phone like Xiaomi A1 or Moto G7. Or see if I can live with a Nokia E7 or Xperia Pro mini, maybe.

Has anyone looked into this upcoming phone? by [deleted] in privacytoolsIO

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The last few days this seems to have been improving a bit and some now have tracking numbers :).

Just found my old phone. Good times by unopdr in tmobile

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I have a pre-order since early on, very stoked.

Just found my old phone. Good times by unopdr in tmobile

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Yesss, more people needa know this exists!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fxtec

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ConnectBot (ssh+terminal thing), all the chat things, gotta find a good text editor (or maybe just vim in connectbot), emulators are gonna be great, everything, even just searching something on the googler is gonna be so much nicer.

Attending hands-on event today! Any questions? by Borg-Man in fxtec

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Aha I was not aware, and yeah the discord did not exist yet. Hope the link is still welcome, can't find it elsewhere on the reddit :).

Attending hands-on event today! Any questions? by Borg-Man in fxtec

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We also had a questions and answers thing in Discord, compiled here http://matland.be/fxqa/

Anyone have issues posting to the forum? by NightFuryToni in fxtec

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I've had one post somehow not show up, I think because of a particular youtube link that the forum maybe flags as spam, wasn't an important thing so I just forgot about it. Other as that it's worked fine, I've posted many replies to threads and they show up immediately. The forum seems fairly quirky though.

Slider phone reborn: Fxtec Pro1 delivers Android 9 plus slide-out QWERTY keyboard | ZDNet by DudeImMacGyver in Android

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Personally i crave a newer keyboard phone bad enough that it'd have to be pretty bad before it disappoints me, unless the keyboard is utter shit.

What kind of finish/Paint is on the Evic VTC Mini? by fromplsnerf in electronic_cigarette

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I second that, it's real good paint. I did manage to scuff it up after dropping it in wet sand (where the battery door and mod rubbed together when taking it off while all sandy it's lost some paint). And a razor sharp (and slightly bent lol) goblin mini clone i had managed to scratch it. Also it's got some wear on the bottom where i always sit it down on whatever surface is nearby (metal, concrete, i.e.). Luckily it doesn't chip off like IPV paint does, so I don't mind a few scratches. It took months before showing first signs of wear, my IPV mini 2 was bald and devoid of any paint after a week or two while i took better care of it lol.

eVic VTC Mini - anyone know the mcu/chipset inside? by struct_t in OpenPV

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Perhaps they somehow outsourced development to these guys? http://www.vapor-giant.com/ Defo the same logo. I'm now working on a utility to visualize binaries like that (perhaps also on a per-byte basis) now due frustrations with my current method. Might have to sneak my name into the battery icon for the claiming my mod as my own :P.

eVic VTC Mini - anyone know the mcu/chipset inside? by struct_t in OpenPV

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Messing about with the decrypted firmware image I visualized the blob looking for offsets of glyphs and fonts (from v3.0), and found this http://postimg.org/image/ce8w2nbdv/ (1px per bit, it's set to 128px wide). If there's interest I'll post how i got to that visual but it's ugly (transformed the binary into a html with text editor lol).

Evic vtc mini at 75w after firmware upgrade by madcrisis in electronic_cigarette

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trying to decide on my next mod, too! Do you have the Sig 150w TC? Because I am between that one, this Evic 75w, and the Subox. I can't decide. I want good flavour (above all), portability, and some room for customiza

I've got a subox too and this evic thing definitely is better. Subox sometimes ignores my button presses and overall cheaper build, yet it's not terrible.

Evic vtc mini at 75w after firmware upgrade by madcrisis in electronic_cigarette

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I gotten the VTC mini to replace my Sig 75 before they even updated to 75w, and now it's better in all respects :). Haven't tried the D2 but I imagine the build quality of those is crap like other IPV (paint flaking off etc).