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They got this on twitter a few weeks ago from Tokyo.

Thanks for the info :-D Did they say anything on how late this request is allowed? But I assume that if a request is made before pay, that would be fine.

It would be nice if they were also made available in here. The first ones were placed here: https://www.fxtec.com/blog/#blog But that stopped for some reason. PS I like that you got both the Logo as the avatar and FX on the name, so it is clear to everyone that you are part of the staff. *ThumbsUp*

Not really. Except the beta, some about the Düsseldorf event (now two days ago), and a photo sample. (I copied that to Chen's photo-thread)

Here an additional sample image from the last newsletter: [attachment file=23382]

Just a simple question, do you know of any devices that weren't buggy on release? And to the "Pretty stable". Well the MAY software on the preproduction unit I tested qualifies for that.... Never experienced other than minor bugs. Sure there were thing that was not implemented/finished back then as the Camera software. But what was there, certainly qualifies for "Pretty stable"...

Just a guess. If they feel quite certain that the hardware is finished, and it is just a matter of the firmware/software. They just might start the production of the units with software with known bugs, that gets fixed by OTA update on install. This could speed up things compared to awaiting the full beta process, and the correction of found errors, before production start. But as I said, just guessing.

I do not know how the beta test is going to work, but I hope they find an open way of reporting so people do not waste time on describing and reporting bugs other have already sent in. I don't see much point in doing it in this completely open forum though. I mean not much point in discussing bugs found as long as they are corrected before (or shortly after) release.

Yup, an odd bug, and even if approved they does not appear at the front as activity in the thread until a moderator make a comment in the thread too.... So I have made a habit of after approve to make a dummy comment and delete it.... Making it even more tedious.... I sure hope they find a smarter solution soon.

Well yes, we just got it in a newsletter: Beta Testing We’ve been going through the hundreds (and hundreds) of completed beta testing forms. Thank you to everyone who has offered to help us out as we have been overwhelmed and delighted with your support. We will be getting in touch with the lucky few this coming week, so keep an eye on your inboxes.

That puzzled me too. but asked, Boe (the manufacturer) says it is Gorilla Glass 3, So why Elephone write 5, I do not know. A little more on the different version can be found here, and many others clearly stick to 3. As I understand it GC4,5 and 6 are more impact resistant, and thus more scratch prone. (for physical reasons the harder, the more brittle)

Well I have been away for a fortnight on holiday, only checking sporadically, so the staff had to handle the forum too on top of all their other chores. The massive spam-attack required immediate action, and unfortunately the current strict system has the negative side effect of being dependent of manual approvals, and not the least of someone realising that there are comments awaiting approval...

Did you bother to READ the thread you are posting in? But until now it has even been hard to find what threads got comments awaiting approval. I had to browse through all seven pages with over a 100 threads, to see if each thread had one waiting…. So I have checked less frequent than with a simple F5 and threads at the top of the list. ...but I can not find the comment you are referring to. I see no comments from you awaiting moderation. What thread have you commented in?.

Yup. As far as I know any user in here marked as "Keymaster" below the user name is a member of the staff (except me as just a moderator) ...But would be nice if it was more obvious.

Well we had over 500 spam threads making the overview close to useless, but luckily it was handled quickly by the team, so glad to hear that you were not affected by it.

Well at the least that could be handled by only counting thanks from previously white-listed accounts. :)

(See this newer thread)

I tried my Samsung S8- and it goes down a bit further (something like 8x6). BUT the limitation is NOT the optics! Trying a lot of times with a high contrast image, It can get sharp MUCH closer than the above. Something like 6.4x4.8 I guess. It is clear on the display when the autofocus is hunting, that the optical focus limit is way lower than the 10cm the OpenCamera displays as the lowest limit for manual focus!! So it might be simply a matter of reporting a lower limit to the API - or could be a bug in OpenCamera??? With Snapdragon Camera app I can get about 8x6 images - just like the

Oh indeed, the first firmware I had was very early. I did not even attempt to do macro on that...

....currently I would be glad to just have manual white-listing.... But sure automatic would be preferable.

Flashed with the newest firmware, the pre-production unit (might be different from the real stuff), can do macros in Open Camera down to about 11.2x8.4cm, at about 9cm distance.

Good point, done. :)

Nice pictures. And looks like they also got the packing ready, looking at the first three images. :-) I'm a little confused on the stand. Is that something in the package? And what is the use of it, compared to just opening the device? Merely a steeper angle than the 25 degrees? Is it a charging stand in portrait?

Yeah, I would prefer a somewhat automated system, so I would not need to white-list each one-by-one... But indeed on comments from new users it would almost always be posible to tell if the answer make sense in the context. But a clever spammer could misuse if a first comment was enough to get white-listed, by creating a few sensible comments, and then let a bot take over spamming with that account... so it would need to be a bit more clever.

(I removed a few clutter-comments, that were due to a reading error, and comment on that comment....)