cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/56120747
[OFFICIAL] Clicks Communicator upgraded to 12GB of RAM, larger battery, DBrand accessories, new demos, on track to ship December!
Text article if you prefer: https://discover.clicks.tech/big-updates-clicks-communicator
I hadn’t heard of the MP2 until this post. Looking into it, aside from the SD card, the MP2 looks to win in every other aspect for me. I’ll be keeping an eye on it.
I’ll be running my Pixel 9 with Graphene until I can’t, which should be awhile but the MP2 looks like an interesting project. Swapping to a Google-free OS is make or break for me so this seems to tick all the boxes. I can see the physical switch being assignable as something I’d end up not being able to do without lol.
Gonna look into the Minimal OS some more and keep a close eye on this. Thanks for the detailed post.
The mp2 has a smaller battery and no qi2 charging fyi. Also no expandable storage I think, if you care for that. The keyboard also looks smaller.
The click tho lacks an ambient light sensor so no auto brightness. Bit of a headscratcher. Also the mp2 launcher looks quite nice and focused. Software might be nicer there.
As long as the battery only drops to around 50% on an average day I’m fine with it. I have gotten used to wireless charging but that’s not a deal breaker. I’ve been moving away from all-in-one tech lately to devices with a single use (like a music player) and moving away from wireless things as well (headphones) so I’ve brought wires back into my life anyway lol
Tbh I care more about qi2 for the magnets and standardised accessories. Also just disappointing that we still have new phones using the old qi charging
The MP2 is smaller than the Clicks, which could be nice for pocketability (but yes, the battery is smaller). The lack of a microSD slot has already been mentioned, which kind of sucks, but realistically you probably won’t be hitting the storage limits on it (you aren’t running any storage-heavy games or taking super high quality photos and videos)
I think the custom keyboard centric interface will make it quite a bit nicer to use than the Clicks, and I love that it’ll get a notification LED (a proper customisable one, not a Gemini light) as well as a programmable switch. It just seems like the more open and customisable option right now, while the Clicks seems a little shady with how they’re marketing it.
Both are only on their preorder stage I think, so I wouldn’t get either right away. I would wait for independent hand-on reviews on the MP2.
Yeah I’ll be running my Pixel 9 with Graphene until 2031 unless something happens to it, so lots of time for this (and others like it) to be out in the wild. Keeping a close eye on this as well as linux phones. Also I think the last phone I had with customisable LED was a Galaxy S3 lol, that would be very cool to use LEDs again.