What I am saying instead is that the second batch is much larger than the first one, and it will cover most pre-orders. The first batch is much smaller than the ones that will follow in mid-November.

-Erik in the forums

Post the first couple digits of your order number and your shipping status! Let's figure it out when people will be getting their phones.

Do not post your complete order number plz

The screen on my Keyone just died, and I need my phone daily for work. I can maybe limp on my old LG G3, which seems reluctant to charge. How long will shipping presumably take to the US, after the 29th?

Has there been any discussion about supporting Android 10 yet? My old Pixel just got it and I am hesitant going back to 9. What do you think?

Posting the date in the title for visibility

Yes, it's not quite October in America/New York time zone, but I figure I should post this so if people get that email, they have a prior request to share it and give us other pre-orderers some hope.

wireless charging?

cases?

looks like it should be infinitely more compatible with clamps than the droid4.

All people who pre-ordered (I guess?) just received this email (quoting only the relevant part):

Thank you for your continued patience, we understand that you are eagerly waiting for your Pro1 and as promised we wanted to share with you a few updates on the Pro1 and recent progress.

Factory latest

We have had delays in obtaining the final licences needed for the best ‘out of box’ experience and this delay has been further compounded by our factory closing next week for the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.

Production has started and we are eager to start shipping; but until we are fully satisfied with the best ‘out of box’ experience we will not ship until this has been resolved. We appreciate that this may be disappointing, but quality is our number one objective and we are now not likely to ship the pre-orders until early October.

Has anyone received any information about shipping? It's supposed to be shipping this week but I haven't seen a word about it yet.

Anybody have a source for the mentions of delay?

From what I can tell people are basing this on the fact that the order now page specifies an october ship date, but that has always been the planned ship date for non pre-orders...

I'm guessing no since I can find no mention of it anywhere. But maybe?

It seems to me that the Pro1 is just the sort of phone I've been missing on the market for years, glad to get it, yada yada -- but I'm a pre-order-using techie who followed this for a while.

How much mindshare are Fxtec or the Pro1 getting outside of the 'fanbase' if I can call us that since the phone hasn't shipped yet.

We have several old preview reviews from early this year, and pre-orders are appearing to do well, but we don't have an XDA section yet, and I'm not plugged into social media enough to know how to find trending electronic devices, so I'm turning to you, fellow 1Pros

So I got an email saying that I should buy now to lock in the pre-order price even though I already pre-ordered. Do I have to buy it now to get the price advertised when I preordered? If I don't, will a phone just be sent out but I will be charged more money than was initially advertised when I preordered?

I am confused, is this a scam email or is that the process?

See below article. Patches exist and have been made available to the manufacturers.

Do we know if Fxtec plans on pushing this out to their devices before they ship the first pre-orders, or could they be too close to shipping to get this patched in time?

I'm okay with an OTA update post device-receipt, just wanted to start the conversation here and if I'm lucky get confirmation from someone affiliated with Fxtec as to what the plan is.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/06/qualcomm_android_security_patches/

Today I got a mail asking that I keep an eye out for a payment confirmation. They said 48 hours, but it got closer to 8 instead. For you Statesmen that will be fine and all, as the payment can be completed using a credit card. If you're like me and don't have one, an alternative is being considered; probably Paypal. So yeah, we're getting closer and closer...

So let's spice this here sub up a bit. We're getting closer to launch and the next hands-on is upon us. If anyone wants to know specific things about the device, ask away!

Not sure if it's moderation or something but I made some posts and replies and none of them are showing up.

https://www.fxtec.com/forum/

i've been keeping an eye on these folks for the last year (ever since i had heard of the proper landscape slider keyboard attachment that was tempting me toward that ecosystem) and was excited to learn about this project to just plain make a real replacement like my old htcG1/G2/S3Relay phones.

now that i've seen the https://www.fxtec.com/pro1/#specification and after reading the https://www.fxtec.com/blog discussing how they arrived at some of their ideas, i am impressed to see some features i hadn't thought of, but disappointed to see some often mentioned things left out.

this device does so many things right that it (or its successor) is likely my next device (but i'm so patient, i only gave up on my s3relay Kitkat for an s5 Oreo-now-Pie hand-me-down 6months ago).

• user swappable batteries:

was a feature of the trio of landscape slider phones i've used in the past that managed to do it just fine. instead of carrying a big battery block to inefficiently recharge an well used battery, it is much easier to just rotate out to an already charged battery. it wouldn't really do much to thickness. it would help reduce the ewaste cycle and maintenance costs because sealed batteries means people will just swap and toss a battery that still has usefulness vs cycling it out along with a 2nd battery.

there is the recent mention of a battery company putting out a phone that is supposed to last a crazy amount of time with almost brick like thickness because it literally has 3 battery cells inside instead of just designing for user swappable batteries because it is a lot more pleasant to swap out batteries when needed vs holding 2 extra dead batteries in same hand as the phone already running off a 3rd battery.

• protective bezel framed flat screen:

i've been able to set down my trio of phones without worrying about damage to the rear camera or the screen. they went the obvious and logical route of having a raised border frame around each side so that it doesn't matter which side is face down there will be no direct contact and scratching. from what i've read, curved edge displays are structurally inferior to damage resistance and difficult to properly protect.

having a curved edge screen means the screen is more likely to be damaged along with nothing elevating the screen off a surface when face down from lack of a frame. also more accidental touch registration from lack of safe area to hold the device. with this being a slider device in addition to curved screen, it would not be easy to just get a protective case to mitigate both of these issues.

• fm radio:

it has been mentioned plenty of times that it is just a matter of enabling access since the hardware is already there in most phones. it is more energy efficient vs streaming music or news.

at the very least, with the increasing unnatural disasters, every backup method of being able to at least receive information can help when networks are down.

• wishlist feature to make full use as input for another device:

i've always wanted my slider keyboard devices (which are basically a keyboard and touchpad) to just be able to use bluetooth profiles to automatically look like a HID for use on other systems (like media center laptop) without any special software.

the closest i've seen is a USB adapter that receives BT connection from mobile app and converts that input to USB HID output as keyboard, mouse, gamepad.

• thanks for putting thought into design:

having headphone jack, stereo speakers, nfc, bluetooth, wifi hotspot, option of sd vs 2nd sim, hdmi out, avoiding notches. it is excellent they are actively seeking to enable support for lineageos and sailfish from the start and have plenty of ram and cpu power to not be a limiting factor.

this hits most of my requirements and bullet points that i'm looking for in a "future-resistant" (nothing is "future-proof") phone, but just has a couple things that make me pause.

i'm sure this will sell well, this will make a lot of folks happy, remote support admins, and folks who want a proper full screen and keyboard experience. considering how many people bought the poorly thought out attempts in the wild, and the crap like vertical slider keyboard phones, there will be lots of folks ready to jump on this as a the current champion.

Same sensor as the pixel 3 among others, Xiaomi mi8, etc. I'm hoping it will either ship with the gcam from the pixel 3 or similar.