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The Spacebar has a built-in fingerprint sensor, which could be handy for unlocking the phone quickly. The keypad is touch-sensitive, which means that you can slide your fingers over it to scroll through messages. And before you ask, yes, it also has a 4.03-inch OLED touchscreen display for those of us who like scrolling on a smoother surface.

Some of you may also be pleased to know that the Clicks Communicator has a 3.5mm headphone jack and that it supports microSD cards for storage expansion. It ships with 256GB storage and you can add a microSD card with up to 2TB of capacity.

The device runs Android 16, supports Qi2 wireless charging, has a USB-C port, and has a 50-MP rear camera with optical image stabilization, alongside a 24-MP front camera. It’s powered by a 4nm MediaTek chip that has 5G support. It’s a dual-SIM phone with one physical SIM slot and an eSIM

It also has NFC for mobile payment support. I’m not seeing many compromises here except perhaps the camera and processor. I’m gonna use this as my next phone.

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jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Maybe they should reach out to the GrapheneOS team and see if there could be a partnership of some type there.

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- bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Unfortunately the GrapheneOS team said it doesn’t meet their requirements. Their requirements are suuuuuuper specific which is why it’s only on Pixel devices.
  
  They have said that the bootloader can be unlocked, so some sort of ROM support is possible.
  
  GrapheneOS complete requirements:
  
  Support for using alternate operating systems including full hardware security functionality
  
  Complete monthly Android Security Bulletin patches without any regular delays longer than a week for device support code (firmware, drivers and HALs)
  
  At least 5 years of updates from launch for device support code with phones (Pixels now have 7) and 7 years with tablets
  
  Device support code updated to new monthly, quarterly and yearly releases of AOSP within several months to provide new security improvements (Pixels receive these in the month they’re released)
  
  Linux 6.1, 6.6 or 6.12 Generic Kernel Image (GKI) support
  
  Hardware accelerated virtualization usable by GrapheneOS (ideally pKVM to match Pixels but another usable implementation may be acceptable)
  
  Hardware memory tagging (ARM MTE or equivalent)
  
  Hardware-based coarse grained Control Flow Integrity (CFI) for baseline coverage where type-based CFI isn’t used or can’t be deployed (BTI/PAC, CET IBT or equivalent)
  
  PXN, SMEP or equivalent
  
  PAN, SMAP or equivalent
  
  Isolated radios (cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, etc.), GPU, SSD, media encode / decode, image processor and other components
  
  Support for A/B updates of both the firmware and OS images with automatic rollback if the initial boot fails one or more times
  
  Verified boot with rollback protection for firmware
  
  Verified boot with rollback protection for the OS (Android Verified Boot)
  
  Verified boot key fingerprint for yellow boot state displayed with a secure hash (non-truncated SHA-256 or better)
  
  StrongBox keystore provided by secure element
  
  Hardware key attestation support for the StrongBox keystore
  
  Attest key support for hardware key attestation to provide pinning support
  
  Weaver disk encryption key derivation throttling provided by secure element
  
  Insider attack resistance for updates to the secure element (Owner user authentication required before updates are accepted)
  
  Inline disk encryption acceleration with wrapped key support
  
  64-bit-only device support code
  
  Wi-Fi anonymity support including MAC address randomization, probe sequence number randomization and no other leaked identifiers
  
  Support for disabling USB data and also USB as a whole at a hardware level in the USB controller
  
  Reset attack mitigation for firmware-based boot modes such as fastboot mode zeroing memory left over from the OS and delaying opening up attack surface such as USB functionality until that’s completed
  
  Debugging features such as JTAG or serial debugging must be inaccessible while the device is locked
  
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  - jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I really hope GOS does find an OEM willing to throw the kitchen sink at this.
    
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    artyom@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    They already have. They won’t say who it is but it’s in the works.
    
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- Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The hardware security measures graphene wants are very expensive. Plus, GOS wants quick android security patche
  
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- weaponG@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Even LineageOS would be amazing.
  
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  - jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Agreed
    
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artyom@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I’m not seeing many compromises here

That’s because it’s really small. And has a weird square shape. It’s the display. And the fact that they’ve only committed to 2 years of updates.

It looks very cool, and it’s cool to see actually interesting phones. But it’s not for me. It’s very strange to me that people would rather a physical keyboard and a tiny display. Guaranteed I can type faster on a virtual keyboard…

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- bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They’ve announced 5 years of support.
  
  And it’s small but not really small. Here is a 3d printed mockup next to a Galaxy S25 Ultra
  
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  It’s every bit as wide, just shorter.
  
  But I meant compromises that would make it not usable as a phone.
  
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  - artyom@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    They’ve announced 5 years of support.
    
    Where?
    
    it’s small but not really small
    
    I’m referring to the display, not the body. It’s 4”. Absolutely tiny, and a weird shape.
    
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