Can we talk about the clock on the Kompakt, the big digital clock on the lockscreen, and the little one at the top of the screen.
I may be jumping the gun here cause I don’t have the phone yet, but is there an option to hide the clock? This is a feature in the Light Phone II.
I would love an option to have an analog clock on the lockscreen, but I understand that can take some effort, but I would really hope for the simple option to hide the clocks.
Just because I need to communicate doesn’t mean I want to know what time it is, I get that it’s a crazy Yogi, Zenhead, Taoist Punk thing to not know what time it is, but isn’t that what this phone with a mediation timer is about?
Sorry I mean the screen that comes up after that, I don’t have the phone yet but there are often pictures of a screen with a large digital clock.
I am saying I would like there to be no visual clocks at any time. This is a feature on the Light Phone, and I hope the Kompakt would be up to speed on this minimalism. I greatly prefer the choice to look at a clock or not.
I very well will use a custom luncher, that won’t take care of the time at the top of the screen. I know there is a hidden setting to hide that but it only works on some versions of Android.
It still would be a lot easier/better if, like the Light Phone, there was an option to make the Kompakt more minimal in this way.
the perception of time is flexible, a clock is not. a clock causes you to live in the shortest perception of time, while otherwise you can perceive time as much longer, and live longer
Actually I wish I didn’t get into that, the point is, we should
be able to have the options to have the phone be as minimal as we prefer, so we can live our lives the way we like. The Light Phone has this ability, and so should the Kompakt.
Agreed, I would like to see this as an option, with the addition that I wish having a fingerprint lock set didn’t hide the clock and notification counters when locked. Maybe have a toggle for either preference in a lockscreen menu?
This should be easy enough to remove without an official option. When I get my phone in 2 days, I will try to remove it and let you know how it goes. I do think it should should have a toggle though.
I have been considering this, my only concern is notifications, I would probably prefer to have the dot to let me know I have text messages without having to open SMS. How is it working for you? (saw your screenshot, looks nice)
It’s definitely a bit annoying to not have notifications. Unfortunately with the default launcher, I can only have SMS notifications for messaging, and I don’t send or receive SMS. So I’m not really losing anything by dropping those. I only need notifications for WhatsApp.
I saw there are other launchers that apparently have notification options so maybe I’ll try that at some point.
I wish we could just configure the LED light to let us know there are pending notifications. It wouldn’t clutter the screen, and anyone who doesn’t want that feature could turn it off. I.e. blinking red or blinking green light could show that there are notifications from a specific app, or at least just mean there are pending notifications from some non-native app
Anyway I guess this is off topic from the clock discussion
I just came to another reason for the option to hide the clock on the Kompakt, besides my preference to not know what time it is, I also believe a good reason is to be forced to use a wrist watch. I don’t want to be able to get away with not using my wrist watch, a laziness of well the time is on my phone, and then I reach for my phone, creating a bad habit. I’d like to be able to create as much space from the phone as possible. So checking the time with my wrist watch would be to create more space, but also lower the repeated action of using the phone.
For a company that sells expensive wrist watches, and alarm clocks, I believe this would be a good thing for Mudita
I love your diagnosis of how people without wrist watches can rationalize their need to pick up a cellphone often!
Imagine a world of clock-free cellphones but with television sets that one had to turn on to see the time. People without wrist watches conceivably would reach for their TV remote-controls to check the time and then get drawn into wasting time watching various TV shows – a bad habit.
Is it really that bad these days?
I use a wrist watch and there’s no way for me to lookup the time by picking the phone instead of just twisting the wrist.
