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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

Remember the Xperia Ray? Now that was a nice form factor. If we are to go without a qwery, that size was the best in my opinion. A sleek, thin and small, comfortable handset. Too bad nobody makes them like that anymore. If there was a top-of-midrange handset like that today (Snapdragon 6xx, 2 or 3GB RAM, 64GB internal storage and microsd slot), it could well be my second phone.

That, and the lack of availability of the later qwerty models, is why I jumped ship.

I remember reading this in your website, there is some other topic lying around here where you mention it. Quite an ingenious piece of hardware too. It's difficult for me to commend Samsung for something but this keyboard is one of the exceptions. I have a personal peeve with Samsung which, frankly, I can't even explain. It's some unconscious, irrational thing. But then I am only just human....

I am F5'ing this thread every 20 minutes. The anticipation has built up quite some up until this point. I am counting on having my unit shipped within November. If that is the case it will be a good thing. If earlier, even better

Awesome. The concept behind the game gripper is so fantastically simple yet efficient. No batteries, no bluetooth connections, no bt-originated phone battery waste. You can put me up as part of the group of people interested in buying a Pro1 version of the game gripper. I hope interest is enough that you find in yourself the motivation to make the Pro1 version. Cheers

Those look good. Boy are we hanging on to the edge of our seats to get the phones in a few days! Keep up the good work. Takes nerves of steel to put up with the huge pressure that's upon Fxtec right now. Cheers

My understanding of the text: they have two locations for "order fulfilment warehouses", both the UK and US. Devices to the whole world will ship from there. Not only UK and US devices but all devices will be sent out from these two locations.

If you really put your phone (and the good "foil" protectors) to the test, you will be surprised. The somewhat substantial "thickness" of the film and also the materials "silicone-like", soft, shock-absorbing texture, is brilliant. I assure you I drop my Priv at least weekly. You wouldn't believe how intact it is. I firmly believe the "silicone foil/film" protectors are way better than the tempered glass ones. They absorb more shock energy thus protecting not only form scratches but also from shock (dropping the phone). Ever since I first tried this kind of protector (that Copter tablet prote

I thought a little and remembered the brands. I used both Armorsuit and IQ Shield. Both were great and lasted quite a long time (1 1/2 year - Armorsuit; now currently using an IQ shield for ~ 8 months).

My personal 'peeve' with glass protectors is that they shatter or crack quite easily. The best kind of protector I could find is the kind of rubber/silicon film. My Priv wears one of those and the thing is really tough. Having shattered my previous Priv's screen within 2 weeks of use (it fell totally flat on its screen, on a concrete ground), I never used the new Priv (found the whole phone for cheaper than the replacement screen only!) without a screen protector. The first one I used was a Copter tablet protector which I then cut out myself to fit the phone. Later I found specific ones I coul

Well. The Milestone/Droid 2 was harder to get here, plus the original Milestone I had lasted for quit e a long time. When time came to replace it, the Droid 3 was out but not officially sold here, and I ended up with a Razr Maxx. Since no qwerty's were available in Brazil anymore, at least the the big (for the time) battery won me over.

Doesn't seem to be very popular around here, but I used the original Motorola Milestone (a.k.a Droid 1). It was my first Android phone, and I loved it. I now use a BB Priv which is also quite good. But am eagerly waiting for the Pro¹ as my Priv is getting slower and slower and its Snapdragon 808 does heat up quite a lot and when it does, the phone's performance grinds to a halt for a few minutes before getting back to normal. Which is quite annoying. Am trying to postpone the headache & hassle of a hard-reset and fresh install for the day I get the Pro¹.

I find it easy to use the Priv's "US" layout for writing Portuguese (primarily), English, German ans Spanish. I usually don't have to 'hunt' for diacritics because of the builtin dictionaries for each language, so speed typing with a Priv comes from a combination of hw keys + autocorrect and word suggestions. Works fine and is quite productive. Since with the Pro¹, however, keyboard real estate will be increased... it is really a good idea to map the most used diacritics (which will vary with each language) to easily accessible keys. And also keep autocomplete and autocorrect working to achie

Whoa that was a quick reply. Sorry I had a hard time figuring out how to properly quote a post, here goes. EDIT: I had at some point already made this setting! It is already set to use the right shift key as ctrl. I just forgot it was so... thanks