New HW wallet announced: COLDCARD Q1 - page 4.

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Quote from: dkbit98 on February 09, 2023, 12:46:04 PM

I thought this was some kind of Blackberry joke first, but then I remembered it was not April 1st.

Well they are both Canadian companies. You never know the engineers might have been sharing a Molson and some Timbits and decided to swap ideas.

IF and that is a big IF, the power circuit is done properly using 3 standard AAA batteries is not a big deal. Also, it still allows for USB power so even if that is bad you can still power up the device the old way too.

Lets see how the final product comes out and if they still keep the open public hardware schematics like they did with the other models.

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As saying goes, "everything new is well-forgotten old." New Coldcard Q1 and good old Nokia E61 look almost identical, except that with the former you won't be able to make a call:

Source: https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/nokia-e61

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QWERTY Keyboard: ideal for long BIP-39 passphrases

As if it justifies increasing the size of the device by four times.

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Quote from: DaveF on February 09, 2023, 11:59:11 AM

Looks to be interesting. Lets see how it really turns out.
Basically a MK4 cold card with a larger screen and real keyboard and a few other features but the underlying hardware is the same.
And where the price really winds up in the end. It's $200 pre-order. Who knows if it will actually stay that way.

I thought this was some kind of Blackberry joke first, but then I remembered it was not April 1st.
It's obvious to me they are concerned with their main competition Passport wallet, so they decided to go with this phone look direction instead of old calculator style, but having 3xAAA batteries is a big mistake in my opinion.
Similar thing with batteries was done by Keystone essentials and Passport wallet first edition, and it didn't work very well for both of them.
Good thing to see that this year is going to be very interesting for hardware wallets, now we have Coldcard Q1, and new Keystone and Trezor should also come out.

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New product coming 'soon' from coldcard

https://coldcard.com/docs/coldcard-q1
https://twitter.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/1623698350481760259

Looks to be interesting. Lets see how it really turns out.
Basically a MK4 cold card with a larger screen and real keyboard and a few other features but the underlying hardware is the same.
And where the price really winds up in the end. It's $200 pre-order. Who knows if it will actually stay that way.

-Dave

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