"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
11/06/2020 at 13:56 • Filed to: None
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"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
11/06/2020 at 13:56 • Filed to: None | 1
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Ok well I came to Oppo to post this but apparently everything is on fire, again, and this feels a little tone deaf but...
So back in March I received my keyboard phone: a brand new !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . I’d always said that if anyone made a modern, flagship keyboard phone I’d buy it. Then an Oppo posted that F(x)Tec was making this thing and...
I bought one.
And it was... well honestly not as good as I wanted it to be. I had fond memories of my old Droid phones and desperately waiting for the Droid 5 that was never to come.
Alas, like most dalliances with an ex, we’ve both moved on.
Don’t get me wrong, the Pro1 is an impressive piece of hardware. Solid build, decent specs, and overall a wonderful piece of hardware. I think my only real complaints are the curved screen makes is hard to hold, which is a problem with many modern phones, and they fell into the trap of wanting to make it “modern” sized, which means it is by no means a small phone.
For me, I just never really got the hang of the keyboard after years and years of using on-screen keyboards.
Then the fingerprint sensor failed.
Then I obliterated the screen.
While it was in the UK for repairs I decided I was going to sell it. Luckily because of the fingerprint issues (warranty) and the screen (I paid for that part) they sent me a brand new phone instead of repairing my old one.
Which brings me to: HEY ANYONE WANT TO BUY THIS THING BEFORE I PUT IT ON EBAY!? New in box. Never used.
Oppo only deal of $600 (OBO?) shipped to anywhere in the continental US.
EDIT: Sold on eBay for $700.
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> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
11/06/2020 at 14:00 |
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Unlocked GSM?
Svend
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
11/06/2020 at 14:01 |
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Why was it in the U.K. for repairs.
I’m not in the market for a new keyboard mobile, I’ve a BlackBerry Key2 LE.
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> Svend
11/06/2020 at 14:13 |
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F(x)tec’s actually based out of London. They started out as Livermorium, building the keyboard module for Lenovo’s ill-fated modular phone line.
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> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/06/2020 at 14:14 |
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G lobal LTE.
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> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
11/06/2020 at 14:19 |
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I’m just not too happy with their updates so far. There’s a LONG list of bugs, which are mostly fixed with Lineage already. Supposedly there’s another update coming but I just don’t know when.
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Svend
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11/06/2020 at 14:33 |
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Oh, okay. Strange they wouldn’t just send a part to a repair centre in the U.S.
Interesting phone though.
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Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/06/2020 at 14:53 |
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Unlocked pretty much everything. Won’t work with Verizon as of March though. Unsure if they’ve changed that. I didn’t have problems on AT&, T- Mobile, and StraightTalk.
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> Svend
11/07/2020 at 06:58 |
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They simply don’t have the resources. From launch till now they only sold a handful of devices. It’s like a tiny company with a few employees.
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Svend
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11/07/2020 at 07:20 |
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I sort of get you but very inconvenient.