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That is how I read it too. Though IF the amount of interested is very low, they just MIGHT need to place a surcharge - that is just my guessing - but you would still be able to get the US or German at the pre-order price, that seems pretty clear.

Hmm, I just did a new pre-order. And it worked fine here, I just did not fill in the credit card info at the bottom. Here https://www.fxtec.com/product/fxtec-pro1-pre-order/ I just clicked QWERTZ and "PreOrder Now", Then "Proceed to checkout" (Suggested address was OK). And after ticking "I have read and agree to ..." I just clicked "Place Pre-Order Now".

I got a reply, but it explicitly request not to be published (apart from the same bottom disclaimer as the above) So as no clear answer is public, my advise for those wanting a Scandinavian keyboard badly would be to cancel their order, make a new pre-order and wait.

A few question arises from their mails: 1) How do F(x)Tec plan to "...monitor demand for..." ? 2) Will it be possible to send a US or German Pro1 and have it 'upgraded' to Scandinavian, and at approximately what cost? (With or without the existing keyboard returned as a spare) 3) Will it be possible to put an already paid order back to a pre-order state, keeping the indiegogo coupon value? I mean if a swap is not possible, or F(x)Tec will charge say €200 for a swap then people that want the Scandinavian layout badly better cancel their paid orders, make new pre-orders quickly at the same

Oh not remove it, but use the practical strike through, like this example: Here I wrote something wrong ADD: This is incorrect, please see... and a link This way a future ready do not need to get worried, (Edited my own above this way)

Phew! That was a relief!! (You really got some of us worried there). Thanks for clearing things up. :-D (Allow me to suggest to go back and make strikeout-edits of the wrong parts, with a link to the correcting post 32458, for any future readers of the thread)

Yeah, seems like cosmetics only, the functional issues moderating are still there ;-( Other part of the site outside the forum has changed substantially though :-)

Pressing "t" does not do anything, but the G does go to end of page, so SOMETHING works. I haven't dug into what, just deactivated it, maybe I will play with it later.

EDIT: There were a misunderstanding here,they ARE going to offer spare parts, apart from the service. See the corrected statement here Now that is REALLY bad news, and as others have said seems REALLY weird when Chen just yesterday(!) tweeted an image on how easy it is to take apart primarily with a screwdriver... And as others have said, I'm not sure it is even legal to require people to send it for authorized service for repair - even aPple have trouble getting away with tricks like that. In my book this is a HUGE blow to my perception of the company. ;-( SURE there could be some de

From he looks of the German keyboard it looks like the single screw in the middle is replaced by two at the sides, that are not beneath the keyboard. Most of the things are not that likely to get worn, so the most interesting things as spares would be Key-mat, click-mat, the flex-cable and finally the usb-pcb Assuming we can get the battery and display from alternative sources. Note that even the 3.5mm jack seems to have it's own pcb too, so they really thought about service.

Nice, thanks I noticed the suction marks on the display, but again this is the old model, and I believe he somewhere wrote it will be (even) easier to get into the new one. :) (the part next to the display is shown top down)

He could mean that different TYPES of keyboards are not interchangeable, that is that US and German can not just be interchanged on the same device. Would be odd though. Or he could mean that they are not USER-intechangeable (That is: it would break warranty), and from his next post I assume that was what he meant. Personally I would still like to have a few keyboards as spares, warranty or not....

As not a native English speaker, I'm not into the finer details. But in my vocabulary there is a clear difference between "I'm going to the party" and "I'm planing to go to the party", in the later case that could be pending a broken car getting repaired in time. So "intend" yes, but being aware of obstacles that might prevent it.

I tried to do a simple pencil-test (flipping a pencil quickly) at different levels of brightness, and it could look like they are using PWM. The display is a Boe BF060Y8M-AJ0-7702 if you want to dig deeper. It is also used on the Elephone U Pro.

The display we know is a 'standard' part from Boe, also used on the Elephone U, so that should be reasonably available. We do not know the battery, but I can not imagine why that should not be a standard item too. But the keyboard I too would like some spares, as I have no idea if it is going to be ten years before the next keyboard slider comes out...

Uh that sounds like a nasty blow. Could you elaborate a bit on that?

Please note edit above!! We should have focused on "planning", and not the "once that is", that should have been something like "if that will be"... See the discussion over here (these threads somehow ought to be untangled).

Thanks for the clarification, so a simple, though very unfortunate, grammatical error in the letter, that lead some of us to assume that it was decided, and not just planned. Too bad, but errors happens. Do you have an estimated price for a keyboard bought later? And can we change it ourselves without breaking warranty? Will it require special tools like a heat-gun, or just screws? This info really matters to people if they want to buy the device now, and change the keyboard to a Scandinavian one later if it becomes available, or they will have to wait and see if it becomes available bef

This is not to split sticks, and is not a big issue, but it IS causing confusion that the order (not pre-order) says "charged at a future date", when I can see on my credit card bill, that it was charged a fortnight ago.... That COULD easily lead to doubt on whether they payment was duly registered as received in your system. Had it just said "charged", it would be clear.... [attachment file=32140]

Now I'm REALLY getting confused.... Does this mean that the reply sent August 9 countering a previous statement that it was cancelled was wrong (too)???? In the letter from this post it clearly says "...once that is available" and not e.g. "...if that will be available" (my emphasizing) It even gave some indication of a time frame... Could you please double check what is right and what is wrong? .

Sounds like a medicine *LOL* Tried it a bit and honnestly can't find head and tail of it, but it does 'something', requires a LOT of permissions though. [attachment file=32133] [attachment file=32134]

If it to me was not, I would not have ordered it. As simple as that… But I do certainly agree with you that the information they provided to us around the Scandinavian keyboard is a mess.

Lucky you with the 90%.... In my experience more often than not the apps I try out does not work in landscape, or does not use the landscape form, but just stretches the portrait layout leaving a lot of white-space and a lot of scrolling to use the app... And I think you might have omitted the smallprints section: The whole idea is for apps with multiple alternatives, to guide people towards those that works best on the Pro1.

And you answered this yourself in the parentheses.... A completely crucial "except" that is the whole reason for the existence of this product.

Well I actually DID expect it to go up! I have always seen this like a 'deluxe' version of a crowdfunded project, where they took all the risk of the development, and only asking for money when they felt sure they could deliver. I'm confused on your question on the Scandi, as you yourself posted a reply from staff from August 9, that there WILL be a Scandinavian layout. Though from where to count these "several weeks" is unclear, but my assumption is several weeks after the shipment of the US/German version. The rest is better answered by someone in the staff.