Raksura

F(x)tec is definitely making it hard to use them as a good alternative on this point, but aren't you very likely to suffer from a lack of updates for Blackberry software since the company has closed? At least with the Pro1, the community is able to pick up the slack. I don't think you'll have that option on a Blackberry device.

It is likely because of business hours.

Meanwhile, Clove is not mincing their words: I guess they got tired of waiting. "The next few weeks" is F(x)tec's version of SoonTM, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

Is that not how paid and not-yet-paid pre-orders are differentiated?

Dare we ask for an update on the delay of the update on a delay?

This week appears to sadly be an exception to that, but they've been pretty good at sending weekly communications emails (which are all relayed to the forums by the users anyway) recently.

I don't have a good estimate of sizes there, but it seems to me that a bridge shaped hole (which would need to be comfortable enough for a thumb to go press the top row) going over the keys while still protecting all corners might be a solution. There's quite the room on both sides of the keyboard to have both sides of the "bridge" remain and not loose any of the current protection. I've attached a very crude drawing of what I mean. That's supposed to be the screen protector, with the hole at the bottom to allow unimpeded access to the keys. Looking at it again, it doesn't loo

While this is definitely the best case I've seen for this phone so far (other than flip cases), this picture makes me wary of how much it would impede usage of the keyboard's top row. Could you tell us if it causes any issues? Could it be made thinner in that area?

Well, we got an email today, just not about how the manufacturing is progressing. Here's a hot tip for the advertisement department: sending emails about how great it is to have a pro1 to distract you while stuck at home to people who are still waiting for theirs (some, me included, having placed their order more than a year ago now) is likely to annoy more than anything.

On the plus side, I might get my Pro1 just after the first anniversary of my pre-order. But then again, since France is about to go into full lockdown, chances are I will not be allowed to go get it from the delivery depot.

I don't understand why the COVID-19 would have an impact on software development.

Nice timely update about the virus affecting the factory:

There's a long thread about them. Alternatively, the TL;DR is here: https://eskerahn.dk/?p=3620

Consider that the phone you are using is a relic (we're talking "it belongs in a museum" here, as did/do a lot of the phones customers looking for hardware keyboard had/have), it used to fit your needs, but these grew and the phone is starting to have a lot of problems. Here comes the Pro1, pretty much a direct upgrade, you can still do all of what you are currently doing and more. Problem is, it's not cheap. You already paid for it, and there's no real replacement for your current phone on the market so you can't just buy a cheap one in the meantime (or you simply don't have the money to

The speed at which we were informed is appreciated.

For Australia, right? Here it is.

Looks like a pre-70%-batch copy/pasted response though. What would have interesting to know is whether they'll wait to complete all of the remaining pre-orders before sending them in yet another big batch or if they intend on making another attempt at sending one batch per week. I am expecting the former, but it would be nice to have confirmation.

Thanks. Considering how cheap those are, I might as well give it a try. I don't mind having some markings on the TPU part since I'll glue it fully to the leather afterwards (I don't see myself using the case as a stand, so the folding thing is not that useful to me). I bought a set of leather piercing tools (to make a hole for the camera, notification led, and mic), so hopefully that'll go better than my previous experiments.

The other cases require me to detach the already glued-in TPU case to flip it (or redo a lot of holes, for which I've not found any clean solution). The detaching process hasn't worked out for me so far.

That's alright, I intend to cut out the hole for the camera on the other side and then simply glue the thing in place anyway.

I tried to remove the TPU part of one of the flip cases I have, so that I could turn it the other way. That... did not go well. There is now a tear in the back. It was a cheap one, so I guess that's to be expected, but I'd caution wariness for others attempting the same thing. Since that particular case was messed up anyway, I tried using a file (meant for repairing guitars/violins) to change the shape of the holes on the TPU part without it looking like a mess. That's not working so well either. Thanks. I've just bought two of those. I don't like the color, but painting leather is doa

Didn't get either of them. I don't think they ever sent a "your order will not ship in this batch" email (unless you ask them directly), that's why there were posts saying that it would be nice of them to send one earlier in this thread.

You might be blocking the mic that's on the back, though.