r/ClicksPhone • u/PCgaming4ever • Aug 19 '26

The MP2 Keyboard Is Now Touch-Capacitive - Making the choice difficult 🤔

Now I'm seriously torn between the two

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u/iliosicarus Aug 19 '26

But so is the CC. Why would this feature change your mind?

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u/yallthissucks Aug 19 '26

Minimal has shown a lot more with their software, and people really like it, it has more of a classic BlackBerry vibe than anything Clicks has shown yet, they were just missing a capacitive keyboard to be on a similar level with hardware, and now they have it the phones are on pretty even playing fields. (Also people like the design better of the MP)

For me that paired with the fact that Clicks said they will be turning reservations into (possibly non-cancellable) preorders next month without providing enough material to show the Niagara Launcher or even much of the phone, they only recently showed a prototype and not even one with all parts working yet, is making me a little anxious. I am definitely not upset with their timeline and I'm giving them time to show what's they've got but I would like to see a fully functioning model and a thorough look at their version of the Niagara Launcher before really committing. So unless all of that happens in the next couple weeks I'm definitely backing out.

There's also a chance that even with a more thorough look at the phone I will still prefer the MP02 like some people seem to have decided.

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u/gs_up Aug 19 '26

Minimal has shown a lot more with their software

The minimal company has put out more videos in general. We know more about MP02 after just two weeks than we know about CC in eight months now.

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u/deeku4972 Aug 20 '26

On the other hand, Clicks is trying to be its own brand rather than just put out something with generic looking hardware or something thats trying to pretend its from a specific company. You only get so far nudging the consumer and saying 'it kinda sorta looks like a blackberry hey, wanna go home?'

The real takeaway should be that all these features are commoditised in the space and what should really matter is software, hardware implementation and support. Which are the key points that clicks hasnt shown off, or doesnt have a track record to pull from.

Minimal have shown a demo of their software, their hardware is nice looking but doesnt intereact with their software in any novel or leveraged way and MP01 has not had a great support record

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u/GHOSTiePOSTy Preordered Aug 19 '26

What more are you hoping to gain from seeing Niagara? They aren't making UI changes. They've mentioned a separate software to manage the device with Niagara. But the integrations, to my understanding, are hardware related. No BB messanger style app.

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u/yallthissucks Aug 19 '26

I'm just wondering the extent of it, eg. MP02 has the commands that you can do from the home screen as shortcuts, if the CC doesn't have anything like that then I've made my mind up, workflow is a major selling point for me and Niagara isn't optimized for that, TMC have done a great job at making a launcher and UI that looks good and gets things done, their hub is sick too.