Rob. S.

True! Then again I only have limited monetary resources to draw from, unfortunately... 😉

Thanks for the pointer, much appreciated! 🙂 I actually thought about it for a moment, but then there's not only my original order (now changed to QWERTY) already, I also ordered a QWERTZ Pro1X through the Indiegogo campaign. I guess a third device would be overdoing it... 😉 I just hope my 1.5 year old Moto Z3 Play's already deteriorating battery will stay usable for as long as it has to take for the first of the Pro1s to come in...

My guess would be that it's simply a matter of supply. Somehow it looks as if Fxtec managed to source the best smartphone keyboard hardware they could get, but now they're somehow at the supplier's mercy with regard to availability and quantities. And I can see why they wouldn't want to stock a lot of spare QWERTZ keyboards while a few people are still waiting for their QWERTZ phones...

Yes, as of now it doesn't seem possible. I asked them about the option, too, when changing my order from QWERTZ to QWERTY since there were no QWERTZ devices available at the time, and got a similar response. My impression was that they hope they'll be able to offer spare keyboards later, which I guess means when or after the X is in full production.

Also, there is still hope that the different kinds of keyboards will be available to buy as parts at some point.

Excuse my reheating an old thread, but Just in case someone might have wondered what happened with my "PrinCube" ("the world's smallest mobile multi-color printer"), ordered and payed on Indiegogo a month after I ordered the Pro1 I'm still waiting for: in October 2019. A few days ago I actually received the item! Missing the "permanent ink" cartridge that was part of my order (there are hints it may come separately), and the thing itself doesn't work, either. No connection possible to the control app that is supposed to be on the device, neither by WiFi not by USB, which are the two possi

On Dec 1, 2020, I agreed to an offer to change my Sept 2019 order from QWERTZ (there still seems to be a supply bottleneck) to QWERTY to speed things up. On Dec 11 I got a confirmation about preparations for shipping from Hong Kong being made, with the promise of tracking details "within the next 3 working days". Never felt this close to getting my Pro1 before! Of course, after following this forum for so long, I took the figure with the obligatory grain of salt. It's been nearly a month now, though, and no more news yet...

HAHA too late, but thanks! 😆

Is there any trick for get the page translated as a whole? translate.google.com doesn't seem to work with it... Scratch that... I resorted to a text-only translation... The device is a pre-production model. It actually becomes obvious by looking at the images; they show the Pro1's "shifted QWERTY" keyboard layout which isn't available anymore for the Pro1X. (Funnily, the shifted QWERTY layout is also the only real complaint the reviewer seems to have. Even the processing power seems to be good enough for them, though benchmarks like Antutu only see a "mid-range" CPU. "In r

Is there any trick for get the page translated as a whole? translate.google.com doesn't seem to work with it...

My guess would be that QWERTZ quantities, now that most 2019 QWERTZ orders have been fulfilled, might be so small at this point that it wouldn't be worth it for the supplier to start a new batch, or perhaps only at a price Fxtec couldn't really be expected to pay. I'd expect the remaining Pro¹ QWERTZ devices to be delivered together with the first Pro¹ X QWERTZ devices.

Typing as such was great on the PRIV, but for my most important applications for a hardware keyboard a landsacape-oriented screen is desirable, if not mandatory, too, like working on a Linux terminal or even a remote desktop... Or entering text in a web app that doesn't reflow, otherwise forcing me to scroll back and forth horizontally all the time just to see what I just wrote. Many times I needed to hold the PRIV in landscape orientation while trying to type on a 90° rotated keyboard. That was awkward 😉

I'd like that, too. I loved the tiny Xperia X1, for example. But then again, I've become used to the large screen, and wouldn't want to miss much of that, either. Without someone finding out how to distort space-time in a controlled way, I fear I can't have both!

@zundappchef, I agree with @netman that you should still receive the first one. My impression from following this forum is that there are just a few extremely unlucky people left who ordered last year and still don't have it. I'm one of them, too, having ordered in September 2019. Now, after a few e-mails in which I was given the offer to change my order from QWERTZ keyboard (which still seems to be out of stock) to QWERTY, I've been told to expect tracking details from Hong Kong within a few more days, and I'm just as excited because the Moto Z3 Play which I bought as a stopgap last year alre

Interesting, thanks! Now that Multi/Dual Boot seems to be coming to the Pro1 after all, giving Sailfish a serious try might actually become an option for me. By the way, I was just told that I should be getting the tracking number for my QWERTY Pro1 within the next few days 🙂

VISA worked for me, too (DE). That said, a few days ago my subcription renewal at LWN.net by VISA failed with a simple "charge was declined" note. My bank offered no explanation upon my support request except "we checked the card, it's ok and should work" and "please try again", which I did, and then it worked. Never had any problems with it before...

I guess not being able to crack the bootloader is the only "security" feature left on that phone with its outdated, unsafe, unsupported stock Android – a device that used to be marketed as "the world's most secure Android device"... Security updates stopped just a few weeks after I bought mine. Anyway, as much as I liked the phone, I never liked the portrait-orientation keyboard...

I've just received and agreed to another chance to have delivery expedited somewhat by changing my September 2019 QWERTZ order to QWERTY in following up to support request 6870 (which I declined the first time, after I wrote above quote)... As the offer now came with a hint that there might be a limited timeframe, and with all the mail Fxtec seems to be getting now that the Pro¹ X campaign is running, I thought it might be ok to reference @Erik here to increase the likeliness that this will work out?

It's one of the "features" Indiegogo offers manufacturers... It lets the manufacturer pass all the usual risks on to the customer. After this stupid year, I suspect Fxtec needs to absolutely minimize their risks for this next "big" production round. I don't like it, either, but if this helps Fxtec to stay in business and make a Pro² at some point, I'd say it's worth it.

I remember that, also a long time ago, some jurisdictions (Germany in any case) explicitly legalised circumventing such copy protections if that was necessary to properly use the item in question, specifically software with copy-protected floppy disks, CDs or hardware dongles (before USB, they even made parallel-port dongles), so the case you mention might even have been legal, not just morally legitimate. All of that of course was before the content industry established laws which forbid even private copies of copy-protected material which would have been legal under usual fair-use clau

Just to let you know, there once was a note that said support tickets get bounced back to the end of the list with every new request on the same ticket, and they also said they'd have huge loads of mail to go through now with the Indiegogo campaign for the Pro¹ X going on. (Me, I've ordered my Pro¹ in September 2019 and I'm still waiting as it didn't make it into the latest batch of QWERTZ devices which were shipped this September and so I have to be patient for some more weeks...)

If they'll finally get around to officially sell spare parts, something they had been planning, and a short conversation I had with London recently gave me the impression that the plan is still alive, I guess they might at some point. At least as long as they didn't change something inside the Pro¹ X that would somehow make it incompatible, but then again I would find that improbable since it would make servicing both devices more complicated than necessary for them...

Well. Google Pay is going to be a thing for me again, now that my bank has finally issued me an NFC-fitted debit card the contactless payment feature of which still requires entering the PIN for transactions above €50 – and also for "random" trasactions below €50 the randomness of which so far amount to "nearly all". The stupid thing is completely useless – if I want contactless payment, and that's what I want since the outbreak of COVID-19 and all the more now that new-infection figures are exploding here in Germany, I need a phone with Google Pay. Thinking about it again, I might rather

https://www.golem.de/news/mit-lineage-os-xda-developers-bringen-eigenes-smartphone-2010-151780.html (German)

Anyone want to bet whether it's the QWERTZ Pro¹ ordered in September 2019 or the QWERTZ Pro¹ X ordered right now that will arrive first?