Fair enough, and Narsil/Anduril would be the biggest offenders.
With something like DrJones, GuppyDrv, Bistro/Biscotti or PFlexPro advanced you’d be hard pressed (pun intended) to accidentally get into the settings mode though in my experience.
I’d rather have the options than not. Making them hard to accidentally access should be the solution IMO, not completely removing them.
I think that any feature should be hard to access accidentally. But easy to access when you need to. So UI designer has to weigh these 2 opposites.
Configuration tends to be one-in-a-lifetime to few-times-in-a-lifetime used option. So weighing towards hard access seems right.
Most UIs that require multiple button presses for anything assign the maximum number of clicks for configuration.
USB rechargeable flashlight should be mandatory in 2019…
What century is this really ?
Smartphone, laptop, GPS, MP3 player… except for DSLR, what battery-powered gadget is not USB rechargeable today ?
Until there’s a viable solution to the lack of integrity (drop and water resistance, neither of which smartphones, laptops and other such doodads normally have to deal with) inherent to a USB port, I’m perfectly happy with purely off-board recharging.
There are phones where the USB port is resistant to submersion. It doesn’t need a flap protection…and it somehow works.
I don’t know why no flashlight manufacturers do it this way….I suppose they may lack know-how or that it costs more - but the first can be fixed and the seconds can’t be a show-stopper for higher-end lights.
So maybe there are other reasons?…
I don’t have much use for the middle. I tend to use flooders for a close up and throwers for walking and looking far. For middle distances…I rarely need to look at middle distances where a modest thrower (like GT Mini) is too throwy yet a flooder can’t light them well. The middle distance is very very narrow anyway, depending on the light combo I have on me. Often it doesn’t exist at all.
Actually when I think about it…I think I’m yet to prefer a middle beam for any use…though I have one where I haven’t tried a middle beam yet and I suspect it will be just right.
Most of those phones also cost $500+, are manufactured in huge quantities and use proprietary tech from huge companies that invest LOTS of money into R&D.
My 2017 Samsung A3 is waterproof and has no flap on the type-C connector
Anyway, I like the idea of simply potting the internals with silicon.
Oh, and I doubt that the majority of lights here sees some water, when they are actually used of course
Whoa… 2nd light from the right is definitely a Zebralight. An older one, judging by the body ribbing pattern. Did you do this yourself or send it out to be chromed?