Zuk it and see: China’s stealth seduction of Western phone buyers

"It has a a 5.5" (1080 x 1920 pixel) touchscreen..."

Next!

When you need a bag to comfortably carry your phone around, it no longer can be classed as mobile.

Wow, finger print scanner but no NFC to make use of it. Contactless payments might not be on Chins's horizon but they are, like it or not, in Europe and the USA.

Capacitive buttons? *Sigh*

Even without the expandable memory, it sounded like a winner.

Right up until it mentioned the capacitive buttons. They might be ok for you Sighted Folks whom can see to avoid them, see to touch them, see to know you've triggered one, & can see to easily back out/cancel the phone doing something you didn't intend, but the Blind can't feel them to find them, don't get any tactile feedback to know we've triggered one, and don't know what the fek the phone is doing "for no apparent reason" because we HAVE triggered it but had no way of KNOWING that fact.

Unless I decide to sell my first born to become an Apple user, my options of Accessible SmartPhones is limited to the few that have physical keyboards. I'm not entirely sure the new BlackBerry Priv will do what I need in a way I need it to work, but what other choices do I have? Especially being that I'm shackled to Verizon as my carrier & can't afford the Early Termination Fees they'd ram up my ass for daring to think about switching to a competitor.

This phone sounded like it might be fast enough & have the RAM to multitask the Screen Reader Environment (SRE) as the required subsystem for me to use the phone in all the ways those with vision can do without the SRE. While 64Gig of internal-only storeage isn't a lot, the fact that the phone supposedly identifies itself as a Generic Mass Storeage Device to a Windows computer meant I could easily transfer files to/from the device. The expansive set of compatible frequencies it used meant it might even run on my carrier. A battery that would probably last me a week between charges was freaking impressive as hell. And for a fairly reasonable price? Great!

Whoops, rein that horse in thar, Cowboy, tharz a problem in them thar hills. It's called Capacitive Buttons.

Damn it.