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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).

A little perspective on delays of which, so far, by my calculations, there have only been two if you ignore the rumors. Initially, last winter, they set a target of July 2019. Did anyone actually think a target picked that far out had anything but a very slim chance of being accurate? In june they changed that to the much more reasonable "Summer 2019" which gave them a range rather than a point date. Anything up until 20 SEP would be on time. I do not consider that a delay but a projection based on more accurate data than the ridiculously early projection. Before we get to the first de

I'm puzzled a bit at the level of outrage over delays. Yes, it's frustrating. And the outrage is fed somewhat by the lack of communication. But we weren't buying a phone sitting in a warehouse. We paid for a reservation for a new technology product prior to manufacture. The difference between this and crowdfunding is, in part, timescale, but mostly that, when I paid my money, while I knew delivery date was a gamble, I was convinced I had sufficient evidence that the actual production of the device was not a gamble. For even the best planned , best funded project, there will be inevitable u

Thanks, Erik. It seems odd to me that folks would have to dig through a thread called "Cancelling order" to see this information. Maybe a pinned thread could be created with this as the first post and maybe Erik could add updates periodically, even just a sentence or two, and folks would have one thread to go and look for updates.

Yes, of course, but if they have nice customizations for landscape use built into theirs (do they?), it would be nice if those features could be easily picked up by other devs and incorporated into those other browsers. Nova isn't bad in landscape, but certainly isn't optimized for it. ;)

I would suggest the only difference between a pre-order for a new company with a new product and backing a crowdfunding project is time scale. I've watched an indegogo project I chose not to back and now, a year later that still don't have a prototype, have not firmed sources and are still investigating possible factories. For a pre-order, they had a prototype, engineering models, sourced materials and a factory before they collected money. However, for a small company doing this for the first time there are still many small but significant obstacles that can and probably will be encounte

I'd be curious to know where you have seen anyone who is actually from the F(X) team talk about November for pre-orders to start shipping? Please provide the source as I have seen not seen this. I believe they are still on track for October, but I suspect they won't announce it until it is 100% ready to go. Not trying to talk you out of your decision, but just want to get the facts straight. And I can assure you most of us are just people who are willing to wait a little longer for a good keyboard phone-- we don't work for F(X) Tec.

Cases and pouches are being discussed in this thread: https://www.fxtec.com/forums/topic/leather-bookcase/ Might want to post there.

Your best answer to these kind of questions is going to come by contact F(x) Tec directly, either via the support form or [email protected]. At least for now, while they are caught up in getting ready for shipping and aren't responding here a lot. From most of us here, you will get guesses. Some may be very good ones, but guesses nonetheless. :-)