EskeRahn

To my knowledge they have not made any special functionality here. It is a matter of making use of what is already build into Android. They added a launcher that uses the keyboard and landscape better than the Android default. But I think it would work exactly the same if you used an external BT keyboard with the same logical keys. The only difference is the Logo-key that I suspect is handled hardware-wise in a separate way - but I might be wrong.

The second question looks like a special case of the first, or? Anyway, this might not be that helpful information in itself, as they seem to plan to have stuff delivered in relatively small quanta in quick succession, so could be more interesting to ask the same questions in a slight variation, e.g.: – What fraction of the (paid) Indiegogo preorders is expected to be shipped within the first fortnight? – About what fraction of the (paid) preorders taken at fxtec.com are expected to to be shipped within the first fortnight?

As I read the reply from Erik it sounds like yet another case of things getting lost as spam. Wouldn't it be wonderfull If all people were decent so spam-filters (and moderation) did not exist...

Did you try contacting them directly and see if you could have a chance to try out an early unit, to see how it worked for your business case, rather than just criticise them in this user-to-user forum? I mean if I was in their place and someone had contacted me back in August with the offer of ordering and paying say 20 units, if he could lease/borrow an early unit for a week or two for tests, I'm quite sure I would have been accommodating. So I would expect they would have been too. Of course a little late now, but just saying....

The keyboard is using standard functionality that are (still) build into Android. See this thread https://www.fxtec.com/forums/topic/pro1-software-open-source/

Personally I think it would be a great way of publicity to use a T-shirt as the protective padding of the phone during transportation, I think many would gladly substitute the earbuds and fancy packaging for that..,

This old tweet got images of the earbuds even including packing: Note how the inner of the rubber tips are yellow. Looks quite awesome - but I still do not expect to ever use them *LOL* (If so it would be for promotional reasons with the T-shirt)

Typo corrected, thanks.

The earbuds was shown all the way back at the London event, and an early version of the case even longer back. But I have not seen any recently posted images either.

I bet they haven't done anything special, so this strictly would be more an Android Pie than a Pro1 question. VLC might be interesting https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=831069&s=1ab3f3187b814c78fb409521337d60e7&p=6004286&viewfull=1#post6004286

Interesting idea, that this could help people with impaired vision. I for one never thought of that obvious idea - silly me. I have not heard mentioned that there should be plans of it sold through carriers though. But It might be worth investigating if you are liable for some subside for it, as an aiding device.

This attitude is beginning to be quite annoying. If you do not want to wait, don't do pre-orders, but just go to a store and by some fruit-crap or similar....

What gave you the idea that it should be a wordpress number??? But of course not all pre-orders can be expected to have been paid, so being number #22001 does not mean that there are 22000 paid orders that needs to be handled first.

If I remember right you are a qwertZ user, and from what Erik wrote earlier we are such a small part of the whole that we are likely to all be included in the first batch.

Oh you can do most of those with the German qwertZ as is, though I do not think ő, ű are included. (for other readers, these are NOT ö, ü, though hard to see in this font size). But I'm sure a software fix can be found for that, adding those somewhere. They are considering a common layout for Scandinavian languages. I have no idea if there are enough (potential) buyers for other qwertZ using languages to make up for a dedicated print, but let us see the reactions your post generates. They made a form for requesting qwertZ if you already placed a qwertY order: https://www.fxtec.com/reques

I had the same thought. I'm sure I will see them say "Nice", and then never even unpack less use them... No matter how good looking they are.

Well t be more precise two of the images are (crops of) the same, and two are not.

Forgot to reply to this. And yes, I'm quite convinced that it is based on the AOSP Launcher<3

Ah of course, yes if they could promise deliveries in amble time before Christmas, it sure could give some extra sales . :)

Indeed, but do we even know if they plan to attempt to channel them through traditional warehouses? It might be such a niche oriented product that it could be hard to get physical warehouses to want to stock them.

You are just guessing... And as we have no clue on neither the number of pre-orders nor the daily production rate, nor when the production started, we obviously have no idea of the time frame to complete the pre-orders. But sure for new orders “Shipping globally is estimated to be early October 2019.” does not add up with other info.

Oh you can get better than a render. Here an image from twitter The most substantial difference is that the qwertZ is NOT shifted, but standard.

Please read the answer by Erik.... It wont.

....And the number of 'empty' tweets could also make a large portion just ignore it, and just patiently wait for the long awaited return of a real landscape keyboard slider to actually arrive at their doorstep...

I have made this for the delivery and customs issues some are experiencing, so other can find hints on how to deal with the couriers. Will try to move things in here from various other threads, let me know if I overlooked moving something relevant.