[Pro¹ X – state of production and delivery]

On the subject of "it's obsolete the day it's out", well yeah, it's true and the price is a little bit out of touch compared to Samsung mega factories, but it's not the same production scale, and we have enough alternatives if we must. But this obsolescence is not very surprising tbh: I never bought a phone people were not scoffing at one year later, asking me when I'll upgrade... at best. Most times they look at you with pity you couldn't buy the latest iphone the day you got your normal "I'd rather buy cheap phones I can break than break a 1.2k iphone and have to pay hundreds for a new screen" 😄

I have a no-google Huawei these days, and I don't feel at the top of the world either 😄 I'm not sure it matters to me anymore. The latest chipset consumes battery, cheats on benchmark and isn't available outside of samsung, is it truly a problem not to have it then ?

[How to customize the keyboard layout on LineageOS 18.1?]

18 minutes ago, Slion said:

There is one on QWERTY. No self respecting French is using QWERTZ 🤣

Peuh you know what I do ?

I use only QWERTY and never ever type accents, anywhere (pc, phone, work, family). You d be surprised how tolerant people are of 0 accent writing in French.

Fuck AZERTY. Burn AZERTY. Add accents to QWERTY 😄

[Do the phones ship first to the UK before going to clients ?]

2 hours ago, VaZso said:

Hi,

I think it is better to contact F(x)tec at their e-mail address about your question, it may happen they have a solution for that - they may not read comments here.

However, earlier (for Pro1) they wanted to ship everything to UK in big quantities but finally they sent a lot of phones directly from China - I think it was a fallback option because of customs problem and they may want to optimize fees and they may have contract with customs/appropriate offices now.
So I am unsure about their possibility but if they still have appropriate staff in China and they are willing to send directly from there, that would be the best option for you I think - but I suggest you to contact them directly.

Anyway, as UK is out of EU borders now, currently it is logically also away from EU the same way as if they were sending the phones directly from China but they may also have contract specifically for them and Pro1-X, so, who knows...
 

Oh right I forgot Brexit, this is probably way worse to ship from the UK now, you're right 😄

[Do the phones ship first to the UK before going to clients ?]

Hi ! I pre-ordered the pro1-x on the website, before I even heard there was an indiegogo thing etc, and am happy with waiting a bit for the snapdragon redesign and everything.

One thing I wonder, seeing their twitter account, is that the factory ships to the UK the finished phones for flashing... but I live in Hong Kong, a few hours I'm sure from the factory in Shenzhen ! Is the phone going to cross half the world and back or do they have any sort of software / product finishing operation here in China ? I suppose if most clients are in EU/US this won't matter anyway, but I just feel bad about these kinds of waste nowadays.