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You can try contact cleaner spray. Despite being a 'wet' method it dries out pretty quickly as it is volatile stuff.

I am sincerely hoping your future telling skills suck. haha 🤣

Thanks, I had read Eske's stand-in for Erik's future message. It's just that Erik said: "I was late with the update yesterday", so went looking for any news but found just Eske's post which I had already read. Sorry

Sorry, didn't find the update over at the pre-orders updates thread. Am I missing something? Cheers

Yeah, kinda makes me jealous as so far no stock assigned email for me. Now, with selfish mode off, I am also satisfied to see things keep moving along.

Thanks for getting back quickly. Makes me feel cared for as a customer. Most of us are supporting F(x)tec through and through in the best way we can which is holding on to our preorders and to the edges of our seats. We are rooting for your continued success even if it is against all the odds.

That is good news. Any stock assignment emails to be sent soon? That way I can keep hopes up that mine is contemplated in the next round. Order in the #150XX's. Thanks

What a relief. I was also thinking that this could turn the phone into an autobrick if the owner doesn't turn out to be careful enough to avoid fully discharging the battery.

I understand you. In fact many of my old High School friends did the same. Chch is already plenty big for me (my city in Brazil is just 33.000 strong). I went back there last year -- 17 years after the first time and it was a shock. Even though I saw all the news, seeing such an empty CBD / downtown brought me to tears, as if I felt the horror of the quake days. All the best to you in your UK venture!

Since we are already wildly off topic - what did you think of it? Mind you, I'm from south Brazil where everything is quite different from "standard Brazil" (or the classical image of Brazil that is known worldwide).

Oh man.... why oh WHY did you move from the Best Place on Earth™️ to cold old UK? Don't get me wrong, the UK is nice, but nothing beats my beloved Aotearoa. I am Brazilian but could have been born and bred in NZ. I just love that country to my bones. Especially the South Island -- lived in Christchurch for a year a looong time ago.

I don't work in software 🤣 I'm just a fan of HW keyboards. As much as I am a fan of physical buttons in the dashboard of my cars (the more buttons the better! hehe. I just despise the "Tesla" way of programming a car's "interface"). Of the 10+ smartphones I've had since the dark old days of Windows Mobile, the ones that made me the most satisfied were the HWKB ones. HTC Tytn, HTC Touch Pro (silly name for a HWKB device!), the original Droid (I had 2 - actually Motorola Milestones as they were GSM) and now the Priv. Come to think of it, I have fun playing with coding. But I really suck a

I have to repeat my old man's motto. "Never compliment! It'll just make people f*** up." That didn't take long. People are losing their chill -- what a coincidence!

Aaaaaaah! The wait is killing me! OK, venting about it is helpful. Sorry all and thanks for letting me vent. hahah

True, but my point was that in respect to China or Hong Kong Customs, everyone (except HK and Chinese customers) would fit in the "rest of world" pigeonhole. Given that for any other country there are export formalities that must be dealt with.

My view on this is that production (factory) batch size ≠ shipment batch size. Makes sense because the larger quantities you ship, the greater the savings. If you consolidate, say a whole 20' container full of Pro1's, you will pay much less for shipping (from Shenzhen or wherever the factory is to the first warehouse - Hong Kong?) than if you keep sending small batches every day. Given the now-current deadline of Dec 20th, it does make great economical sense to consolidate as many (production) batches as possible and ship at the latest (or, to be on the safe side, second to latest, maybe

That still leaves you in the same group as every non-US customer.... waiting for them to sort out the "export customs" nightmare.

Well, I work with International Trade and can fully understand this. Even though it seems that they are experiencing every setback on the book... It is totally possible (and even probable if you don't have any previous experience). Add to that the current US Customs rules' hardening... That surely didn't help at all either.

Being a south american client, I wonder if my pro1 will be shipped directly from Hong Kong..? Or will it go through the US first? Order# in the 15XXX's, but no Indiegogo and took maybe a couple days to make payment. Thanks

Go Wallabies! LOL (Although I'm more of All Black fan. South American that did a High School exchange year in NZ waay back then - 2001).

I know you meant it for fun (hence the smiley), but I think the fundamental difference between this and a Ponzi scheme, is that each unit sold turns a markup (it is sold at much more than the unit cost), as more units get sold, this markup will eventually offset the debts and costs and will start turning a profit for the company. Classical business economics. Unless, they are selling the phones at a loss or too slim a markup. It could happen but I believe these guys got their experience from the Moto Mod and wouldn't be so naïve right now to the point of making such a mistake.

Although it seems to be only speculation, this is very credible. I for one always thought of the process of a startup manufacturing anything, to be similar to what you described. It gets (like so many other things in life) to sort of a paradoxical point where exactly the moment the startup needs most of all that orders continue trickling in, is when they start losing the supporters' trust in them because of the (very possible, real and quite normal) delays. I haven't been posting here too much because it is easy for our words to become (justly or unjustly, I'm not judging) impatient/unsat

More good news! Wait for it.... waaait for it..... 🤣

I am patiently waiting, just checking this thread daily but trying not to complain too much about the delay(s). Honestly I still think that they will pull this off and it is a feat in itself to make a smartphone. For those who are getting increasingly bitchy, I do understand how you feeel but do try to take into account how an incredibly complex product a smartphone is. If you ever want to go to the next level of complexity with a consumer product, I think you would have to build a car. I am still rooting for these guys and hoping the money I knowingly put at risk by pre-orderin

The Priv is a pain to align correctly to a Qi charger. At least the shitty cheap ones I got from DailySteals for "free if you pay shiping". haha