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2019-09-01 , 02:36
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#2081
Originally Posted by shaihkritzer View Post
sure we can be happy, but negative memories from keyboard mod will always be following this team. I recall that keyboard mod was cancelled just because "low market interest", in other words - because of greed.
Low market interest means only very few units will be sold, and there are minimum order quantities and economy of scale that'd make production cost much more than what one could sell for... Ending something because it's not economically viable and eats money rather than bringing a single cent is not greed, especially not when offering a full refund to everyone who invested while this is in no way an obligation with kickstarter projects.

There's a risk in being an early adopter or backing a kickstarter campaign and that is known upfront, so I don't understand the bitterness. It's sad keyboardmod did not work out but motorola phones and keyboardmods will be the last thing anyone cares to think about when we have pro1 in our hands...
 

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2019-09-01 , 15:44
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#2082
The reason for cancelling the mass production of the Moto-Keyboard was that Motorola suddenly decided to cancel their support for MotoMods (technical, marketing, distribution etc.)

You can read the details e.g. here at TMO, instead of drawing broken analogies, speculating etc.
"Use the force, read the source" is quite meaningful far beyond Free Software!
 

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2019-09-01 , 16:12
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#2083
Originally Posted by olf View Post
The reason for cancelling the mass production of the Moto-Keyboard was that Motorola suddenly decided to cancel their support for MotoMods (technical, marketing, distribution etc.)

You can read the details e.g. here at TMO, instead of drawing broken analogies, speculating etc.
"Use the force, read the source" is quite meaningful far beyond Free Software!
The team who was in connection with them has changed, as far as I know, there were no responses from Motorola for a while. It took some time for them to be able to communicate the team again (with their successor?) in some way; there were special parts necessary for the connection with the phone which had to be ordered in high volume, etc... It seemed not to be an easy thing to even communicating with the Moto team after it... anyway, I am not an insider...

...but with Keyboard Mod, they were depend mostly on Motorola, their approving scheme and parts which had to be ordered in much higher quantity than they was really need...
 

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2019-09-02 , 13:28
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#2084
Less than one quarter of a month. One week. Seven days. One hundred sixty-eight hours. Ten thousand eighty minutes.

Don't you dare replying "the second week of September does not necessarily mean next Monday" or "who says you are in the first batch", I might have rabies. And I might bite. Hard.
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2019-09-02 , 13:59
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#2085
What was the real benefit to make a pre order for a "special" price?
 

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2019-09-02 , 15:06
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#2086
For all we know so far, the real benefit was to get the device earlier. Not that we know when exactly we will get it or how many orders are in the first batch, but we do know that ordering now means a later delivery.

Since we do not know yet whether the Pro1 will be a commercial success (I hope it will, F(x)tec surely deserves their hard work to pay off), pre-ordering was also a way to make sure we would get a device, since we knew the first batch was already funded. But let's hope there will be other batches, would be best both for customers and manufacturers.
 

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2019-09-02 , 16:17
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#2087
I figured this may be worth reposting from the official fxtec forum, FinQwerty will support Pro1 soon:
https://android.onse.fi/finqwerty/pro1.html
https://www.fxtec.com/forums/topic/s.../5/#post-34221
 

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2019-09-02 , 16:49
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#2088
Originally Posted by mosen View Post
Hey Chen!
Could you disclose the name of the technique used to make the new back surface more grippy?

I have clearly generalized too much yesterday when i stumbled over the term soft-grip used by NY attendees.
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Now after a night of research i realize there are gazillions of material combinations and techniques to give a surface more grip and just the public/marketing reduces all to one term.

My gripe seems to be with bad and/or cheap mixtures of Styrene Ethylene Butylene Styrene SEBS used in the early days and in low end products nowadays.

Only the name would be enough so i can research further for myself. Thank you!

EDIT, Is there any image where we can see the new back? The NY attendees understandably concentrated on the front and i did not see a picture of the new back surface.
We have changed the coating and the oxidising process of metal of the back cover to make it more matte. And that's all. Compared with July units that you have seen, the new back cover certainly being less slippery and captures less fingerprint. Feedback we received compared with July back cover has been mostly positive given it's easier to grip and leaves less things on it.
 

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2019-09-02 , 17:01
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#2089
Still nothing regarding a release date Chen?
 

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2019-09-02 , 17:03
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#2090
Originally Posted by Wasmachinemann-NL View Post
Still nothing regarding a release date Chen?
Working hard to achieve the target at around mid of September for the very first batches.
 

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