Fullmetaljacket223

Nice! That's good leverage and a clever arrangement. Finding people that have that type of history with them AND care about getting keyboard phones white listed is very difficult. I've paused my own push on it until we start getting these phones so we can push in mass volume

I second that, what kind of phone was it in before?

So something I've been wondering, but entirely unable to answer, is it feasible on the Astro to type with thumbs like a standard qwerty side sliding phone, or is it mostly only comfortable to use like a laptop keyboard? Looking at the size and shape of the keys, it is hard for me to imagine typing on it like you would with the Pro1-X would be comfortable or easy.

I agree with you. They aren't really going to give us the time of day without some serious planning and trick cards. As far as attorneys go, there are enough people concerned with this even outside PKB community that want the same phone freedom. Crowd funding could go a very long way in hiring an incredible attorney to build a solid case for us. Prior to getting to that point, we are working on solving negotiations ourselves. Identifying members that have close family or friends on the inside at at&t or Verizon, learning through them how everything works so that we can make more thor

Very interesting progress, good job! Hopefully FxTec and at&t can work something out. If not a permanent approval, then atleast a sure way if anyone wants to use at&t, they'll have the resources to make it happen reliably. Anybody know people within Verizon? 😅

I certainly appreciate that! I'm slowly working on the different methods in the background while we wait for the phones to enter the shipping phase. I do have one concrete option developed! Yes, I actually have a for-sure way to get these phones working in full on both Verizon AND at&t. It will also work for any other phone with the correct technology for the carrier you want to use (4glte, 5g, correct bands, and Volte) such as the Unihertz phones or even the BB Key2. But this is not the breaking of chains that we are aiming for with US carriers, this is skirting around their aut

Now that is interesting news. You did have to argue with the reps at the store about it? How did that conversation go?

That is fascinating 😂 considering that everyone else has been cut off this far. Is be curious to know the reason it's been good so far. A side note, I've been developing a back up plan or two in the unlikely event that Verizon and/or AT&T are not willing to accept our devices as a whole. There are other ways around these issues, but they involve some serious competency in phone technology. Trying to avoid that if at all possible

If anybody would actually like to flood my inbox with cat pictures.. I would forever love that!

That's unfortunate to hear, but that is at&t for you. They may eventually realize their mistakes and open up later this year, but for now I suppose we need to focus our attention on Verizon. They have not specifically stated their 2022 acceptable phone guidelines.. which means if we can climb their tech support ladder high enough, explain ourselves, they may be cooperative. I would like to, in the end, achieve Verizon's agreement to allow whatever phones on their BYOD program, with disclaimers to relieve them of any liabilities. But for now, the pro1-x is the main focus. I still don't have

Did you get a new att SIM card and try that before moving to T-Magnificent?

Thank you for the correction!

How long have you had your current SIM card? It could be that the it needs replaced with a current one. Also, HD voice uses the same technology as VoLTE. Both are "voice over LTE". Thanks for the updates to keep this train moving. Another idea, on the pro1, with your sim card in it, try typing into the phone dialer *#*#46368676#*#* it should bring you to a menu. Select "Phone Information" or whatever is similar. It should bring you to a page that looks similar to the image I'm attaching. You can see that there are switches to provision VoLTE or HD voice, wifi calling and several other thi

I thought you guys would like to see this. Unihertz is actually trying hard to get their services approved in US after their customers brought them their complaints. FxTec, where are you? You're going to lose customers to the other physical keyboard maker

What carrier are you using?

What did you say to them to get them to do that for you? Have you gotten the phone yet?

That is good news. I don't want to ask you to possibly risk your service, but would you be able to call at&t and ask them what phone they show you are using in their system?

That's pretty wild. I am hoping by the end of March we will see some results as to what the carriers will be allowing or not. I'm going to try to have a chat with Verizon tech department about their future plans and maybe making some changes if there's enough support. So far we have simply speculated, I'd like some hard answers. Depending on how that turns out, we'll follow up on at&t. I'm doing Verizon first because I'm a customer

I've had 2 short discussions with them. The first time, about network compatibility: Request made Dec 31, 2021 Support replied Jan 5, 2022 I replied Feb 17 support responded today Feb 23 The second time, about the difference in phone color Indiegogo vs FxTec homepage, and turning into the US carrier issue again: Request made Feb 20 Support replied 9am Feb 23 We exchanged two more emails this morning between 9-10am Feb 23. I'd say they are slow, but not infuriating.

That is very interesting, I'll be curious to see what happens over the next week or two. AT&T cut service to my BB Key2 about 2 weeks ago and wouldn't even discuss turning it back on.

What area are you in? I'd consider T-Mobile, but I'm in the north Georgia mountains. In the past T-Mobile didn't have good signal here. Also, I received two emails from FxTec support today responding to my requests. They have officially taken note of the USA carrier issue and appear to be looking into what to do about it!

The reason that prior to this year, you could use any phone with compatible tech was in the technology of the service itself. With gsm and CDMA, the carrier had no access to what type or which device you were using. You could switch sims, modify your phone settings, whatever you wanted. The service had to accept the requests made by your device by default. Enter: LTE/5g, which are data based. Now the carrier has effectively a "live internet feed" to your device and sim, they know everything about it. They're in a position that can allow them control over us. This is all a new thing howev

And so perhaps, part of our proposal and discussion with the carriers could include a testing period to check device functionality and reception, because we don't want it to reflect negatively on the carrier. Of course that is IF they want to bring that up as a reason for denial. This could all go smoothly or we may have to fight a list of reasons they want to say no.

To reply to all of you, this far T-Mobile seems to be using the fact that people are getting denied from at&t and verizon to their advantage. They'll accept pretty much any compatible phone from over seas. Now when they shut down their old network this coming December.. that could change. But that's a year away. As for getting the phones working with the other big 2, bare in mind: we are not asking these carriers to SELL the phones, brand them, nothing like that. Simply, to add them to their system of approved devices so that they are not denied service. That is not much to as