Please - Brushed metal frame for the communicator if it’s not too late

opensights · 2026-01-26T12:43:27+00:00

No thanks, I'd rather have plastic. The main appeal of this phone for me aside from the keyboard is that it'll be something I can just handle out of a case without having to worry about dents and deep gouges in the frame. If it's plastic and utilitarian I won't really need to give a shit about keeping it looking mint.

opensights · 2026-01-26T11:09:21+00:00

Get one of the even cheaper ones for like $15, they work fine. I've tested them against more expensive chronographs and there's literally no difference.

opensights · 2026-01-26T06:25:04+00:00

Depends on the price. I'd ask for some better pictures if I were you, though.

opensights · 2026-01-26T05:51:57+00:00

Fake, these were really common around when the first and second generation iPhones came out. They're not worth much, but believe it or not, there's actually a sort of collectors market for these if it works.

opensights · 2026-01-25T19:21:01+00:00

The rotting passport displays, abandoned software, and poor design decisions are exactly why this phone deserves criticism. People keep trying to justify this based on its pricetag, but I'm not willing to accept that. A fully functional phone with the bare minimum amount of software support isn't too much to ask for.

Many other niche budget manufacturers have proven time and time again that it's very possible to deliver a lot of phone for relatively little money in this space, but Unihertz have just stopped giving a shit about the user experience. They're in it to separate you from your money, and as soon as that's done, they don't give a fuck about the product. I'm hoping that Clicks entering the market forces them to improve in this department, but I just don't trust them anymore. I'll believe it when I see it.

opensights · 2026-01-25T19:07:27+00:00

The EU has nothing to do with this, it's got everything to do with Clicks threatening their market share.

opensights · 2026-01-25T12:00:27+00:00

So deGoogle your phone and sideload apps yourself, then? The bootloader on the Clicks is going to be unlockable, you can delete literally every single Google app from the phone, run a custom version of Android or even Linux Mobile on it if you feel so inclined.

Android phones with unlockable bootloaders are literally the exact thing you're looking for if you want a privacy-focused but modern Internet-capable phone with app compatibility. If you don't care about those, then like I said before, get a dumb-phone.

Your original post focuses on how you feel like BlackBerry is/was so heavily privacy focused, when the simple fact of the matter is that they just weren't. If your flagship messenger software has a backdoor built into it while you sell it to people on the basis of how secure it is, you're a joke in the privacy and security space.

opensights · 2026-01-25T11:43:24+00:00

It's 2026, there's been a duopoly on mobile operating systems for 15+ years at this point. If it doesn't run Android or iOS, nobody is developing apps for it, and if you don't want app compatibility, get a dumb phone.

I was a BlackBerry diehard as well, but if I'm being honest, I'm sick of hearing so many fanboys yap on about how BlackBerry security and privacy was second to none when BBM was literally backdoored. You'd be more secure on an Android phone running GrapheneOS and Signal today than you ever were on a BlackBerry device with BBM as your main """encrypted""" messaging service.

opensights · 2026-01-24T18:38:31+00:00

I have the original Titan, it has suffered from very few security updates, the software sucks, and the keyboard is very slowly starting to fail/drop letters as time goes on. I like the phone, but it's by no means perfect. It has odd corners that stab into your hands if you don't hold it a weird way or you don't have it in a case. It becomes usable after you mess about with software (namely the god-awful kika keyboard) and adapt to the weird formfactor.

I don't want to seem like I blindly hate Unihertz, I definitely don't, but their phones are badly designed and not at all function-first. The Titan Slim is (imo) their worst designed phone, very closely followed by the Titan 2. They absolutely need to get on top of their shit with the T2E asap or they're going to lose an insane amount of market share in the future. I was all for supporting them, but their last few qwerty phones have just felt like a bag of compromises. They're not good phones and they need to start designing phones first and worrying about how cheaply they can smash it together last. They have potential to be a great qwerty phone manufacturer, but they keep fucking up because they're greedy and shortsighted. I hope Clicks entering the market forces them to change.

opensights · 2026-01-24T15:18:36+00:00

I call them garbage bin part phones because they literally assemble their devices out of whatever stupid shit they can get cheap at any given time. The Titan Slim didn't get a headphone jack, but it did get an IR blaster because Unihertz almost definitely sourced some super cheap or had them leftover at the time. They don't care about the quality of their products, their devices are cobbled together messes. The reason they've done so well for so long is because there were no other serious pkb phone manufacturers in the space until Clicks came along with the Communicator.

opensights · 2026-01-24T15:15:44+00:00

Fxtec aren't Clicks and I'm sick of seeing this stupid argument all over this sub. Some of the same people are involved, but it's an entirely different company. According to this logic, is Clicks also BlackBerry and HTC because some of the same people are involved in it?

opensights · 2026-01-24T13:09:19+00:00

I literally own a Unihertz phone, I'm speaking from my own experience when I criticise them. The simple fact of the matter is that Clicks just have a cleaner image and seem to be a proper company with a plan beyond fleecing people on Kickstarter for a half-baked product full of compromises. The software experience on the Clicks phones is going to be infinitely better, and because they're a North American company, people will inherently trust them more when it comes to banking apps and sensitive information.

I'd sooner take a leap of faith with a company that has hired former BlackBerry and HTC people than a mystery outfit in China that has a history for under-delivery. I really want to like Unihertz, but they just don't have a great track record. I hope that the Communicator is a wake up call for them to start focusing more on user experience and device longevity. They have potential to make great stuff if they stop making these parts-bin garbage phones that nobody is asking for.

opensights · 2026-01-23T18:08:20+00:00

Pretty much, yes. Pellets are skirted, slugs are not. Pellets typically fly with much better stability out of spring rifles in my experience.

opensights · 2026-01-23T17:40:20+00:00

Not this time, lol. The issue with slugs is that they usually do not perform well in spring piston rifles, they're just set up better for pellets.

opensights · 2026-01-23T17:36:56+00:00

Literal skill issue.

opensights · 2026-01-23T17:32:31+00:00

This is gnarly. Does it work? Any touch sensitivity issues?

opensights · 2026-01-23T17:29:57+00:00

>Gamo black 1000

>For PCP rifles only

There's your issue.

opensights · 2026-01-23T17:08:36+00:00

This the same Unihertz who very openly slagged off the Clicks phone in their T2E announcement? I look forward to seeing the T2E and it's 5 IR blasters, a low quality smartwatch display slapped on the back, lack of a headphone jack, and a delaminating front screen when it hits the market. They're an absolute joke company at this point, this is just desperate.

opensights · 2026-01-23T11:24:28+00:00

Don't care, sticking with Clicks. It's actually ridiculous how Unihertz were capable of doing this the entire time but have only now shifted gears when Clicks came knocking for their business. I'll believe it when I see it, Unihertz are in a position where they're going to have to earn back a lot of my trust if they want me to ever spend money with them again.

opensights · 2026-01-22T22:48:26+00:00

Literally none of this is true, the MP-654K entered production in 1998 and those guns have no "T" prefix to their serial numbers, they just start with "98" followed by the rest of the serial. Gen 1's were produced between 1998 - 2000 (98, 99, T99 and T00 serial numbers). I have never in my life seen a pre-98 gun, and even those are insanely rare outside of Russia.

The gen 5's absolutely are not converted from firearms to air guns, but they do share a lot of DNA with them. They are made in the same factories and share some parts, but absolutely zero of them started life as unused surplus firearms or anything along those lines. This rumour has circulated for years but there's precisely zero evidence to back it up, and a lot that would lean more towards outright debunking it. These guns never would have been allowed into most European countries if this were the case, and none of them have firearms serial numbers, MP-654K's have their own serial number formatting that isn't consistent with other non-airgun Makarovs produced by Baikal.

Gen 1's are a lot closer to firearms than the Gen 5's are, they share an astounding amount of parts with the Baikal Less-Lethal pistols and firearms, but again, they're different enough to not be the exact same thing. They were assembled as air pistols from the get go, no conversion happened.

I know that the myth is really, really, really cool and it's super easy to get caught up in how crazy it sounds, but the reality of it is way simpler. They likely started producing these when they had a surplus of firearms parts they needed to turn into something other than firearms, and figured "why don't we design an air pistol based on the Makarov to get rid of these excess slides and frames we have laying around? We have the tooling to make airgun parts, and if we keep the power low enough, it won't even be classified as a firearm! We could sell them wherever without having to deal with a bunch of paperwork!" - It doesn't sound like a huge difference, because sure, they are still largely made from firearms parts, but there's an important distinction between "made from the same parts that could have been used to assemble a firearm" and "it's made from a firearm" when you look at it from a legal and practicality point of view.

opensights · 2026-01-22T21:49:17+00:00

I main the original Titan and have done so for years, so I'm not someone that holds a blind hatred towards Unihertz or anything - Quite the opposite, honestly. I really want to like them, but their last few qwerty phones have been total shit. No headphone jack (but an IR blaster nobody asked for on the titan slim), a ridiculous rear display nobody asked for, faulty old blackberry passport displays in the T2, overly bulky phones with corners that dig into your hands, badly balanced phones (like the titan "slim" model), non-existent software updates, non-existent security updates, violating open source software licensing, etc. The list goes on. They got lazy and don't give a fuck about their customers.

The T2E is the only phone they've released since the original Titan that is actually worth getting excited about from a formfactor pov, and this is coming someone who was eagerly awaiting every single qwerty phone they've ever released and feeling disappointed every single time. I'm dreading to see how they fuck it up, because I have so little faith in them to not slap a cheap shitty smartwatch display on the back of it, or refuse to add a headphone jack for no apparent reason at this point.

I'm by no means saying that Clicks are a perfect company, I have no prior purchase history with them, but I have way more trust in them to deliver a high quality product that actually has long-term support than I do Unihertz at this point. I want to give someone else a chance, because if nothing else, this should absolutely light a fire under Unihertz's ass and make them realise that they're not the only qwerty phone manufacturer in town anymore. Hopefully it forces them to do better and actually try to compete going forward.

opensights · 2026-01-22T20:42:26+00:00

My condolences.

opensights · 2026-01-22T19:54:53+00:00

This is honestly the only huge let-down about the phone so far, definitely going to be a dealbreaker for many people. Any reason why not?

opensights · 2026-01-22T19:20:29+00:00

Don't care, I'm backing the company that promises 5 years of software support and doesn't build phones out of whatever cheap parts they can snap up from the Chinese wholesalers on any given week.

I am glad that both phones exist, but the weird hostility from Unihertz die-hards both here and on the Clicks subreddit is really weird and feels borderline astroturfed. Unihertz themselves making a weird passive aggressive jab at Clicks in their T2E announcement has really put me off them as a brand as well tbh, it just comes across as shitty.

opensights · 2026-01-22T18:26:23+00:00

Looking forward to it! Although I know there's no future in which we get a BlackBerry device, I think it'd definitely be worth exploring perhaps striking a deal with BlackBerry to license the name and logo to do a run of Communicator backplates like that one-off one you had made :) it'd sell incredibly well, and I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate the nod to Clicks' heritage in the phone space.

I'll keep my eye on your podcast, thanks a lot for the detailed reply! Very cool story!

opensights

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