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by adhambadr 8y ago
I guess you're right we have complete perception of minimal. I wrote somewhere else our aim was to be exactly between Flagship smartphones and complete detox options like litephone or an old refurbished nokia, I think you're more
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by adhambadr 8y ago
well put advice. However countless projects started the software route and never managed to go beyond step 1. We're focusing on HW atm, offering a great price point, great experience, insurance and using as much off the shelve software
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by adhambadr 8y ago
we actually tried copperhead at the very beginning as our base, too slow unfortunately.
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by adhambadr 8y ago
oxygenOS ? lineageOS ?
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by adhambadr 8y ago
we didn't accept money so far and won't till we have working phones reviewed by youtubers. The pre-order just reserves u a spot as we're doing limited batches. and oh boy I wish we had 50k on marketing, the website & cont
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by adhambadr 8y ago
not sure how to proof we're legit, but here are some more links : from berlin university ( https://bit.ly/2vDJHSs ) & our trademark registration : https://bit.ly/2HoiXed (why would we bother if it w
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by adhambadr 8y ago
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgHeTAjFlmZ/ , https://www.instagram.com/p/Bdxps6lHBE2 are not renders, yes we have working versions of phones. We're not accepting any money before youtube re
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by adhambadr 8y ago
thx for taking the time, will consider the feedback in our re-launch (we were working already on making our pos better) this thread took us by surprise while reworking it
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by adhambadr 8y ago
mmm. that was more or less our initial concept in 2016 : https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ5hmZqhkNU/?taken-by=bllocphone . But the main feedback and learning was: you can't do without apps. Theres an app for ever
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by adhambadr 8y ago
good observation! with this contrast 10% backlight is enough for almost 80% of lighting conditions. we initially used OLED and our phones after testing managed to use on average around 65% of the energy with our ui. We're dropping it
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by adhambadr 8y ago
removing is easy, adding takes time and it depends on the app. shoot us an email which widgets you think are urgent
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by adhambadr 8y ago
honestly its the lowest thats technically possible to sell. Good components just cost that much. After vat our margin is around 35 (pre-retail) which is lower than most vendors, meaning if we sell to retail we wont make a cent. it just cost
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by adhambadr 8y ago
this reallly depends on usage, we wanted to send it to the real benchmarking websites when we release. I charge mine every 2 days which was a personal goal (to not get punished if I forgot to charge last night)
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by adhambadr 8y ago
oh thanks for the heads up. Sticking to minimalism we wanted the checkout to be a one-stop checkout on the landing page experience. we should build a plan B
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by adhambadr 8y ago
we def. screwed up communication as we've been focused lately on finishing hardware. its based on Android 8.1 and the apps are downloaded via play-store normally. We don't white or black list, but rather are going through the most
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by adhambadr 8y ago
yes just Android apps. We used a lot of the widget-interface functionalities most famous apps already did to build this simplified UI, it was a lot straight forward than we thought.
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by adhambadr 8y ago
yes we initially used OLED and our phones after testing managed to use on average around 65% of the energy with our ui. We're dropping it unfortunately as its a supply-chain nightmare.. (for now). Black and white mainly increases your
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by adhambadr 8y ago
fair-point. we will also (try to) never do kickstarter. We're shipping in August.
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by adhambadr 8y ago
Checkout our phone www.blloc.com . I think its exactly what we thought of, dumbing down the smartphone to the bare essentials without missing out too much. we don't have it perfectly communicated (working on it), but we're trying
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by adhambadr 9y ago
any plans to port it to mobile phones? If anyone worked on porting a touch-based input drivers I could contribute!
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by adhambadr 9y ago
does it come with a mobile app to build IFTTT connections easily ?
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by adhambadr 10y ago
It has always baffled me the way founders treat employees and investors so vastly asymmetric. Ive been involved in rounds close enough to see how just the "hint" of a potential investment and all the numbers, financials, cap table
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Ask HN: What is iOS's biggest security risk?
2 points by adhambadr 10y ago|1 comments
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by adhambadr 10y ago
"Besides, liberated from corporate taxes, they'd have more freedom to increase wages" yeah right .. we all know thats exactly what's going to happen!
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by adhambadr 11y ago
awesome! -sugar would be a great info to know -what API database are u using ? is this information public or you generated it yourself ?
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by adhambadr 11y ago
id rather spent my time writing infinitely nested while loops then talk to my accountant about one more topic
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by adhambadr 11y ago
TOR ?
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by adhambadr 11y ago
Watsi sounds like an awesome organisation, but would they need such computing power within a month ? (the credit is only usable in August), if then can you connect me with them ?
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by adhambadr 11y ago
op: i planned to, but up till now everyone is either telling me to donate the transfer to an ongoing project (ignoring the fact they only get to use it in August) or stuff people want 'to start' building or want me to start doing.
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by adhambadr 11y ago
op here: to clear up I can't really 'donate' or transfer 8k or any amount to your account. I will just give you ssh access to the machine(s) you need. The 8k will also be gone if we don't use them before end of august,

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