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(I meant cutting like this)

That is not bad at all !! Considering that it is not just cheap plastic like mine. And if we want reduced thickness, I bet cutting out the credit-card part along the edges would take about 3-4mm away, removing the multiple layered material Leaving it practically the same at the PUke leather ones ones. I'm not a big fan of the long flap-magnet mechanism though, I think the side type mechanism is better leaving the whole thing slimmer (at the cost of a little width-protrusion) Though obvoiously also easier to do with plastic...

Indeed, It is clearly a different type than the ones we usually see. Looks like real leather for one thing. Looking at the source there is also an attachment ring. (do not be confused on the 30, the listing has multiple models) BUT it could well be that the leather-part is the same, and only the grabbing shell part being different, that might explain the extra space. @claude0001 What are the external dimensions with a Pro1 inside? The primitive fake-'leather' ones I have been using are 156x79x21mm (83mm including the magnetic) ...BTW. Would be nice if some law requi

Let me try to tag @Erik in the hope he can find out what went wrong.

At the least some are still available at amazon, though at a substantially higher price....

...it seems we are already too late.... 😲

Thanks for the warning, I was not aware. so we better go and collect a stock of what is left...

Indeed. 🤑

From the images it would be more accurate to describe it something like "The upper part, less the plate with the hinge-mechanism". But let us await an official answer to be sure.

Indeed, have been using something similar for about two years (since the pre production unit). I do recommend turning it around so it open like a Japanese book though, as this both protects the key AND have the flap away with the keyboard open, both handheld and on a table. But would be interesting if someone could do it as a one piece 3D print in a transparent elastic TPU-like material so we could see the display closed, and perhaps have a slightly slimmer case. Optimally enclosing the magets needed for closing case as well as the one for the hal sensor detecting if the lid is closed.

I'm certainly tempted, but seen from Europe indeed it could end quite expensive with shipping and taxes on top of the cost of materials and your time. Do you have an estimate on what you would sell them for (excl shipping and taxes)

Indeed it that makes it very confusing that they answered "The screen included in the tech bundle is just the screen on its own" We better tag @Erik here to sort these two seemingly contradicting statements out. @Erik: If it really is just the screen, why do the Perk ask people to select the colour? Something does not add up here.

The optimal would be if a touch-based OS had some UI that distinguished between a large display-area and a smaller interaction-area where 99% of normal usage could be done. Where each of us could easily choose the size of the interaction-area as it fits the need of the day. And no I'm not talking just shrinking everything to a corner like e..g Samsung offers with Android. The most important thing is variety as different people got different needs and wishes, and it is almost impossible to imagine all meet in a single design..

Spot on where I stand. And if no keyboard I too would prefer a device where can be fully used in one hand while keeping a secure grip. In my book if the device is so huge that it requires two hands, we could just as well have it with a real keyboard also. The problem with a one hand operable devise with a real keyboard is that the keyboard would become cramped... We can not have both big standard keys, and a one hand operable device.

(AFAIK neither. It is magnetically attached closed or open)

I believe it was for the S8+ I tried (if I remember right), the S8 is too slim. But anyway they are too elongated, and need to be cut (i was unable to do that with the tools I got, but perhaps a plasma cutter or something like that could do the trick.

(lineage-17.1-20210308-nightly-pro1-signed.zip on March 5 security patch installed smoothly using adb sideload)

The protectors for the Elephone U all works perfect as it is (literally) the same BOE-display on both. BUT currently we can only get the real tempered glass ones FLAT (not full coverage), or the elastic type curved - you can get both types for trifles on e.g. AliExpress - I bought a stack, and they work just fine.

They DO exist for BB-Priv, so could be made for the Pro1 & Elephone U also. They are not that hard to make when the screen only curves parallel to the long edges of the device.

Yes I also tried rather hard to dig. We just might be in a situation where it is a standard battery, but the tiny print/cabling is different After a lot of digging I did find the similar size (at the least it seemed, haven't got the exact measurements). But the cable looked wrong. There are some numbers on the FCC-images, but was unable to find them.

Hmm, I was sure it was the entire top part, but I might have misunderstood that.. Can any of those that got a "screen" for self replacement help clarifying here?

That makes sense, as the user then through the purchase of the device already paid license fee for exFat.

For those that wonders about the blow up of this thread, I merged the content of the parallel thread from here:

Content merged As two threads were on the same topic, and very little here on the actual poll I moved all the comments over to the other one:

@Doktor Oswaldo I can not thank you enough for a well balanced post! I totally agree on all points. I think that much of the commotion arises out of people not being able to distinguish between making a pre-order and taking a crowd-funding perk. Foreigners like me could start by usign a dictionary: Perk Though IGG tries to scream out in large letters that perks aren't pre-orders, unfortunately the campaigns I've seen (including this one) are formulated in such an optimistic way as if it was a sure thing that we will end where they hope we will, and that we will get exactly what