Rob. S.

https://www.golem.de/news/fx-tec-pro-1-im-hands-on-starkes-tastatur-smartphone-fuer-650-euro-1909-143673.html (German) Google web page translation doesn't work well because of their ads and their specific (laudable) approach in offering visitors several ways to get rid of ads, so I took the liberty to add the deepl.com translation (unedited) below.

It didn't happen to me often, but now that you mention it I remember that it failed once or twice when I needed it really badly – like driving by Google Maps on a hot day searching a location in Berlin for which I was already late (where I don't know my way around, I am not a Berliner) :-D

For most of the time I was using slider smartphones: The first was a Vodafone branded HTC Wizard 110, the second a Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, also designed and made by HTC, both running "Windows Mobile", an abomination of a mobile OS which could only be used with a small stylus that accompanied both handsets. Except for the keys which weren't too durable, I really liked the early Xperia's hardware, though, and sometimes I wish we could still get smartphones with such compact dimensions. The first HTC Desire Z, after the keyboard more and more gave out, was replaced with a second

Thanks, the .com address worked (I had copied the .co.uk address from a posting somewhere in this forum, so I though it would be legit)! I got an answer in less than 20 minutes, which is exceptionally fast. (I don't think I can share what they wrote, but it was nothing earth-shattering anyway.)

Seems the mail server tried for five days: Reporting-MTA: dns; [my mail hoster's mail server hostname] X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 574E8142591 X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; [my mail address] Arrival-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:25:45 +0100 (CET) Final-Recipient: rfc822; [email protected] Original-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected] Action: failed Status: 4.4.1 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; connect to fxtec.co.uk[50.63.202.57]:25: Connection timed out

Sorry if this has been answered already, but this thread is getting ever harder to search through – If all pre-orders are expected to ship until christmas, as I read in community.fxtec.com/topic/2461-pro1-pre-orders-updates, does that mean that regular orders now probably won't? Is it still a thing that QWERTZ keyboard orders might ship earlier than others even if they were regular orders, not pre-orders? Cheers and all the best, Robert

There are several hands-on reviews of the final product out there, while of course technically the devices were preproduction samples. Everything I read was positive, by the way, even though they came out of preproduction. There were even reports on German IT news sites like Golem.