I think it would be cool to customize the lock screen or have it be different. I like that once my Supernote is on, the sleep mode is different. Even though it comes with prepinstalled Supernote sleep mode screens, you can make your own and upload it right to the device! In settings, you’re able to change that. I wonder if Mudita would be open to it.
Personally for me, I have uploaded photos in Procreate and added my own text, Then, I convert it to B&W and play with the tones and then send it over to my Supernote. Works like a charm! Now I have 3 different screen savers that are e-ink friendly that are completely customizeable and mine that I like to cycle between.
However, when my Supernote is completely off, it just reads “Supernote” and I don’t really mind it. I guess this is entirely subjective. I don’t mind branding in off-mode, but yes it would be cool if it wasn’t there as well. I just wanted to compare the Kompakt to my Supernote Nomad as a great example where an e-ink device has both branding and non-branding.
I also wanted to touch on the subject matter. It’s funny how feeling proud of owning a particular brand or device (from that brand) may make someone feels proud enough or not mind seeing a logo because they really like their product or the company. However, I understand the view where we’ve gotten to a place in society where it’s become a trend with recent generations where they like to name what brands they’re wearing from top to bottom. It’s almost an overload or overwhelm of brand advertisements (where even, on media or social media, people go to lengths in hiding logos because it’s not sponsored and they don’t want to freely sponsor a brand).
In this day in age, I think you can absolutely be proud of owning certain brands, whether that’s for technology, clothing, cleaning products, etc. while still not being completely just…oversaturated with logos to the point that it feels like you’re a walking billboard and living a life for them and not for you. So, bringing this small discussion back to topic, I really liked the suggestion in another topic in regards to having a small mudita logo as the home button instead of the home button because then it would be a small nod to Mudita as a company without it being too “in-your-face” with the brand name and size. It will remind the user what brand they have decided to support as well as a good talking point to friends, family and acquaintences without too strong of an effect.
Any thoughts to this discussion? Would love to hear it!
There have always been brand logos, they just used to be called a “maker’s mark”. Modern society now values the maker’s mark more than they value the product itself. It’s tragic.
Additionally, i know in some historical religious places of worship, brand logos are a bit of an unspoken no-no. This is because the goal is to step away from “worldly” things before entering the sanctuary (which is supposed to be healing).
Anyway, I personally would also be pretty bothered by a giant logo on my screen. Part of the reason I am leaving the majority of the internet is to escape ads.
I purchased the Mudita Kompakt because it checks some boxes I’ve been looking for in a phone for a very long time that no other phones really have. I like the compact size, screen that’s easy on the eyes, and os that, although gutted, is still powerful to the user. However, I don’t completely resonate with the mission statement of the company (and that’s okay). I respect them and absolutely wish there were more teams in this industry as passionate and talented as the Mudita team. Designing and implementing a custom phone is a monumental effort that demands expertise in all the different layers of the software and hardware design stacks. At the same time though, it’s a paid product! I believe I should be able to purchase and use a device for entirely my own benefit without all the branding fluff. It’s a little distracting and it makes me uncomfortable.
I appreciate the reassurance from the team that this branding will be removed, and hope that a change as simple and low risk/low effort as this one is not pushed back and forgotten in the ever-churning development pipeline.
Spot on. We won’t nail jelly to the wall so it’s up to us whether we hop on that ride or look for something else. I really wish we had more affordable and good quality dumbphones and feature phones other than dumbphones for the elderly, but it seems the societies as a whole start seeing more issues with modern technology and it might drive the market further after Mudita, Light Phone, Onyx and others.
Btw I work in an IT branch where enterprise-grade hardware and software is being sold and I see the “unfinished product” in the old sense became kind of a norm… All around beta, agile, promises, strategy, transformation…
Sr7,
Please excuse the somewhat random replies. I usually only read the forum after work, and I don’t do it in a very consistent way :-/ So yes, it might not be the most efficient approach :-/ But… Ula and the other team members are here in a very consistent manner. And please be assured that all comments, from all threads, are being gathered and will be discussed internally, and an appropriate decisions will be made. You will hopefully see the results of this in the upcoming software updates.
I checked yesterday. We had a discussion about removing branding from the lock screen around 6 to 8 weeks before the product release. I don’t know the details, but for some reason, we didn’t implement it (I have some clues, but I don’t want to spoil the surprise ). However, we were aware of this, and it’s already on the implementation list. Sorry for the lack of more details for now.
). However, we were aware of this, and it’s already on the implementation list. Sorry for the lack of more details for now.