r/Android • u/welp_im_damned have you heard of our lord and savior the Android turtle 🐢 • Jun 30 '26

Video Clicks Communicator: First Look - Clicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMNdr8dV23A
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u/Rude_Influence Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

I'm exited for this device and am eagerly awaiting it, but I am NOT liking what I'm seeing. There seems to be too much reliance on the touch screen. For example, when he typed, 'Spotify', he touched the screen to open it. He should have pressed enter on the keyboard. When he scrolled Spotify, he used his finger on the screen. He should have swiped on the keyboard. If they don't get those details right then they won't fill the niche market they're trying to break into.

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u/Finsceal Jun 30 '26

Yeah, it feels like a touchscreen phone with a keyboard that you only use for text input. You should be able to engage with it ENTIRELY using the keyboard IMO, touchscreen should be optional.

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u/moonski Jun 30 '26

it feels like a touchscreen phone with a keyboard that you only use for text input.

that's exactly what it is

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u/pdinc Fold4 / Pixel 7P Jun 30 '26

IIRC the Palm Pre supported using the keyboard kinda like a giant touchpad as well

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u/HoothootNeverFlies Jul 01 '26

the blackberries have it too, bit of a waste not to make the keyboard capacitive

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u/pdinc Fold4 / Pixel 7P Jul 02 '26

I was actually misremembering, it was the blackberry that had it

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u/TheMobileTypist Jul 06 '26

First BlackBerry, but now also Clicks and Unihertz

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u/pdinc Fold4 / Pixel 7P Jul 06 '26

Clicks doesn't have a capacitive keyboard though? That was the genesis of this thread

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u/TheMobileTypist Jul 06 '26

It IS capacitive, but this wasn't shown in that particular video.

They'll release more showing that, it only makes sense.

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u/trd86 📱Pixel 7a // 📶 US Mobile // ⌚ GW4C Jul 04 '26

webOS ❤️

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u/llamswerdna Aug 10 '26

I miss my Pre3 and my Pre so much.

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u/NapsterKnowHow Jun 30 '26

Because it had that mouse ball right?

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u/pdinc Fold4 / Pixel 7P Jun 30 '26

No, the keyboard itself was capacitive

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u/NapsterKnowHow Jun 30 '26

ah gotcha. I remember some had the mouse ball navigation

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u/lapeet Jun 30 '26

My G1 and Nexus 1 had that mouse ball. It also lit up with various colors for notifications. Was awesome.

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u/TheMobileTypist Jul 06 '26

Nice didnt know that!

The Clicks Communicator has a signal LED light on the side, but wasnt shown yet in this video.

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u/NapsterKnowHow Jun 30 '26

I miss those days

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u/letsreticulate Jul 01 '26

The Nexus was a great phone for the period.

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u/glha Jul 01 '26

I've a S22 connected to an old TV, to use as a multimedia device and I do have a bluetooth keyboard with integrated touchpad to use with it from a distance. You can get a lot done with a physical keyboard on Android, as of today, with no other indication besides being a keyboard. You can scroll with arrow keys, type a letter to jump to it on the app screen, cycle through things with TAB, deselect with ESC, use CTRL+whaever, not to mention if you have dedicated Android keys, like Home and Back. I'm sure you can do wonders with ROM/OS level tweaks, but it is usable as it is. Of course, my experience is skewed by the integrated touchpad, which can come to the rescue when needed and act pretty much as a touch on the screen.

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u/TheMobileTypist Jul 06 '26

You can do more with the touch capacitive keyboard than what's shown in the video.