# Uconsole pre order!

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/uconsole-pre-order/8999>\
**Category:** uConsole\
**Tags:** hardware\
**Created:** [October 25, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/uconsole-pre-order/8999 "2022-10-25T13:42:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/uconsole-pre-order/8999/21 "2022-10-26T06:47:35Z")

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I really liked the metal body and the keyboard’s backlight. I’ll probably not buy this one since I already have the DevTerm (BUT I’M TEMPTED). That being said, I have some concerns:

1. I don’t understand the reason to have a second headphone jack “for stand-alone analog voice function”. Is it used exclusively to make phone calls?

2. The trackball driver implementation of the new keyboard ([here](https://github.com/clockworkpi/DevTerm/blob/main/Code/devterm_keyboard_mini/trackball.ino), I assume) is the same as DevTerm’s bigger keyboard ([here](https://github.com/clockworkpi/DevTerm/blob/main/Code/devterm_keyboard/trackball.ino)), so we should expect the same kind of buggy cursor movement. I looked into this issue on [this post](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/keyboard-firmware-trackball-and-tutorial/8908) (sorry, I didn’t have time to do a proper binary release of the modified firmware), and it seems to be a hardware issue as well (the chosen pinout of the Arduino doesn’t have hardware support for hall-sensor encoders).

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