It’s been a couple of months now since us backers of the Titan 2 Kickstarter campaign started to receive our devices. Aside from the disastrous communications during the production and shipping I’m happy to report that the actual phones are proving to be excellent!
So far we have received 2 OTA updates, which seems to indicate that Unihertz are listening to the community and are being proactive in their approach. Hopefully this enthusiasm continues.
The first OTA fixed a very serious issue: The majority of devices would experience phantom touch issues with the screen, the phone would detect and respond to touches that didn’t happen, causing all sorts of serious issues for people. Thankfully by the time I’d received my Titan 2 this update had been released, so I didn’t have to experience this issue.
The second OTA was minor fixes and improvements. It fixed a couple of minor bugs such as the programmable buttons not always responding when the screen was off, and I believe Unihertz have made some improvements to the standard “Kika” keyboard.
More encouraging is the community that is forming around this phone. Already we have a very early release of LineageOS for this device, which can be found here: GitHub – agreenbhm/Unihertz-Titan-2-LineageOS. Unfortunately on this one it doesn’t look like any updates have been made since its initial release, but it may prove to be a good foundation for someone else to build on.
There has also been a keyboard app, developed especially for the Titan 2 released called “Pastiera”. Since its initial release I’ve been using this over Kika. It was better than Kika in its first version, and it’s since had a couple of updates which have improved it even more. I highly recommend trying this is you have a Titan 2, it can be found here: Releases · palsoftware/pastiera.
While I don’t currently have a SIM card in my Titan 2, if we start seeing good results from GCam ports to the level usable photos can be produced that may change. The only thing keeping me from daily driving this device is the lacklustre camera.
Overall though I’m very glad I made the decision to keep my Titan 2, it’s been a fun experience already and I’m excited to see how this device grows with future updates and community engagement. Long may it continue!
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