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The Garas works great (and I prefer the length). It only has a small button protrusion, like Kashif's. Has a small blue led to show it is getting power. Charges from either computer port or wall wort, but only rapid charges from wall, of course. One thing is that the magnet is pretty strong. On my Moto G6, if I pull the cord straight back it pulls out the tip with it, but I got it because the grip of the USB-C prt on this cheap ass phone had already started to loosen even for a standard plug (I occasionally find it disconnected when I leave it to charge. I don't expect that with the Pro 1.

That had actually been my intention when I made the suggestion to create this thread in the first place-- I wanted a thread where, if we were wondering what F(X) Tec had said in an update, we could quickly look it up. 🙂

I doubt I would have used the case and probably won't use the sleeve. My front left jeans pocket is my sleeve (is that a Pro 1 in your pocket or are you just happy to see me 😉). Going back to my Palm PDAs, I have never used screen protectors and only used cases when a phone was crazy slick. That was my Nexus 6p, where I used a bumper only until it's battery got sketchy and then I used a battery case, and my interim phone, a Moto G6, has a thin TPU case as it can barely be held without one. I hate cases and I don't think the Pro 1 will be slick. I think a bumper that wraps the base but doesn

They appear to be Australian. Amazon.au has them, but not Amazon.com as far as I can see https://www.altronics.com.au/dynalink/av-cables-adaptors/?connection_2=hdmi I'm ordering one on Amazon made by Garas, but just picked one out of a hat to try. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Q3F33H5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

As a 60+, I find it interesting that you had 5 year intervals and then 40+ 😂

He said " Liangchen has been preparing a video update from the factory for you, but I haven't yet been told when it will be sent. It could be out any minute. " As "has been preparing" implies, this wasn't just someone at the factory whipping out their iPhone and making a quick video. The video is quite professional in it's execution. This stuff takes time and probably has to have the final cut approved before release. However, I was being a bit tongue in cheek in my post. 😉

The other ambiguity is we don't know exactly when this video was made. Given post-production and approval cycles (I'm assuming the videos are made by a professional third party), it could have been last week. So did he say "this week" last week and did he say it intending to refer to the week the video would be released rather than the week it was made. Lol

I really don't get this whole "mid-range" phone stuff. Phones have hit the same technology innovation plateau that computers hit in 2005, such that Flagships up the gimmicks more than they up the innovation. In 2019, a mid-range phone is fine, except most mid-range phones have 6xx Snapdragons rather than an 835 and underwhelming screens and minimum internal memory. My wife's Pixel 2XL with the same SOC handles everything just fine. And for the kinds of productivity which presumably would make a slider keyboard attractive, the specs on this baby are serious overkill. This is a phone that mi

Promises, promises. 🙄

Frankly, get a used phone. Always good to have a backup. I've been using a Moto G6 since June. I hate it, but it was cheap ($99 from Google Fi, which service I immeditely cancelled) and it works. It will become my backup for the next time something happens.

Well, I'm on a comfortable pillow, but I'm on the edge of my seat. 😉

I unpacked Erik's message a little differently (doesn't mean I'm right): First he said: " we are on track to begin shipping tomorrow, on the 29th. Some of you will receive their dispatch notice tomorrow, with everyone from the first batch following by the end of this week. " That to me means all who would have qualified for the first batch, which we've never known, but I assume the minimum to be IGG coupon holders, but possibly pre-orders beyond that Then he said: " We are currently waiting on stock to arrive at our warehouse in Hong Kong, which will dispatch orders directly to

Not on my mobile using FireFox. Works as labeled.

Oh, sheesh, never mind. I hadn't noticed that the top threads were pinned. The forum does sort by latest response time. 🙄 However, this does raise another issue. Apparently the edit button is a limited time deal. I guess, again, to prevent deletion, I personally prefer forums where I can edit any time. I only use it to fix bonehead mistakes. However,I understand if you time it out to prevent deletions.

Ah, okay. So VAT isn't country dependent? Or is that part of what the EU did-- normalize VAT. Just curious. Oh well. Thanks.

In many forums, if there is a new response to a thread, that thread pops to the top of the list. So, I guess it's some kind of automatic sort based on last post date. I like that feature. Can that happen here?

When checking the price of the Pro1, make sure you are logged out. That will show you the price of the Pro1 without the tax and VAT stuff that varies. Yes of course you have to pay the Tax/Vat stuff, but it will show you how much exactly F(x) Tec has raised the price. For the US, it went from $649 USD to $699 USD. That doesn't seem so bad. Of course. my State tax, when logged in, brings that to $734 USD, but that's my state's fault and the laws that require internet merchants to collect taxes for internet sales. I assume if they succeed in getting the Pro 1 on Amazon, Amazon will onl

You're being disingenuous. You know Erik is referring to the current shipping of consecutive batches to the shipping hubs in time to start shipping by 29 October. No. No you don't. ;-)

Hey, how do we know you aren't paid by TCL? :-D

Just a few disagreements. First, I interpret "shipping to you" to mean October 29th is when orders beginning shipping from the distribution centers. "Rampimg up" is defined as "increasing volume" whereas you seem to be taking it as a synonym for "preparing." We, of course , don't know what the throughput rate will be, but assuming (and this is purely a guess from inferences I readily admit) they air using air cargo to get from factory to hubs, they should be able to get a pretty steady stream even if the phones are manufactured in batches. If they hit the October 29th date to start ship

Well, I'm happy. This is the first time they have ever given a firm shipping date. The questions some people have are all quite fair enough, such as why, if everything hasn't been resolved, do they have enough confidence to put out a firm date, but for now it's enough for me that they are that confident. Of course something could still go wrong, but I think they have calculated that it would be something unusual if it did given the date the selected. I really want my phone and every time the possible date (this is the first firm date they have ever provided) gets pushed further out I am

Nothing much to add here, but thank you so much @doktor.oswaldo for putting things in perspective and giving us positives to focus on so that we remember to be excited rather than anxious. And to reminding the F(X) team we are 100% behind them at a time when they are under tremendous pressure. We are so going to love this phone.

I'm personally not sure why learning that we will have a new slider keyboard phone in another month doesn't warrant a happy face. ;) It sure makes me happy.

There is no firm way to know for sure in advance. You can find authoritative listings of carriers and their bands, some listed in this thread, and compare those to the listed bands for the Pro 1. I doubt whether comprehensive tests have been run with the Pro 1 of North American Carriers. The carriers themselves are unlikely to confirm anything without the device to test. I use Verizon and I'm pretty sure it will do fine on Verizon or, if not, on AT&T which are the two carriers I prefer (both Pay as you GO or Prepaid), but ultimately I can't be 100% sure until I get the phone. That's

Good information. By the way, as I have noted elsewhere, the "promise" of not asking for money until 2-3 weeks before shipping was clearly stated as being changed in the email newsletter that told us it was time to pay for our pre-orders (we were asked to pay starting 01 AUG for delivery in Mid-September).