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It seems odd, black is the only colour we know *definitely* will be available... and that's like the only colour rendering not shown on the home/shop pages.

Maybe should have done a study, showing random colours to different people, and see what percentage of people complete a preorder...
 
Yeah that's an interesting observation. It probably wouldn't hurt to get a few renders of the black one in there.
 
I doubt very much the Pyra coming in black has had much impact on increased pre-orders. It can easily be stated that it will come in black and also a few other as yet unspecified colours.
 
Well, some people said they wouldn't preorder if it's the red colour shown; some said they'd refuse to preorder unless it comes in black. Not sure these people really would have pre-ordered anyway if it was the colour they wanted, but...

FWIW:
my favourite black rendering: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyraimages/
my favourite other-coloured rendering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pyra-Render-Backside-with-Ports-new.png
my favourite photo of the keyboard backlighting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pyra-Proto-BacklightClose2.jpg
I would still keep the picture of the clear plastic prototype though.
[doublepost=1463268010,1463267619][/doublepost]Also in ED's announcement, was reassurance that there are enough funds already to fulfill the preorders, and of various other little things that people were apprehensive about. That might also be a reason for the increase in preorders.
 
I thought the increase in preorders was because I had a sandwich yesterday. Or maybe because those that were waiting to get #666 found out they already missed out on it.

It would be nice to know if people are hearing about it elsewhere. Maybe an optional "Where did you hear about the Pyra?" question when preordering could help track that.
 
I happy that people are ordering still. Hoping that we all have our pyra by July if not August since we hit the 1st goal
 
Hi... I`m wanting to order.. I did read that you can pay for a voucher and use that as payment. I can`t see where I can buy vouchers.
I`m from the US and my card will be declined for the overseas payment.
Any help please?

thanks
 
Probably won't be anytime before September, ED hinted something in that direction on the German boards.
No fun.
 
@Stainy I don't know the details about the voucher way, but can you not call your bank and tell them that you are going intentionally to make that payment?
 
Also, we need stretch goals.

Do you know how fire a Snapdragon 808 CPU board would be?!?! Freedreno for open-sauce graphics? Even more computing power?

Saying it's a long-shot is an understatement, but as a person who's not far off from being committed to the world of Pyra, that thought is tantalizing.
 
Do you know how fire a Snapdragon 808 CPU board would be?!?! Freedreno for open-sauce graphics? Even more computing power?

Saying it's a long-shot is an understatement, but as a person who's not far off from being committed to the world of Pyra, that thought is tantalizing.
It was mostly a joke. If we got things like that I was thinking more along the lines of additional case colors, and at the extreme end (over 5000 preorders) the dock or something similar.
 
Hi... I`m wanting to order.. I did read that you can pay for a voucher and use that as payment. I can`t see where I can buy vouchers.
I`m from the US and my card will be declined for the overseas payment.
Any help please?

thanks

https://www.dragonbox.de/en/46-gift-vouchers


it's on the pyra preorder page. I ordered the 4gb us model and bought an additional 200 EUR gift voucher to pay for the rest. The EUR USD rate is low.

You can pay for the gift voucher using paypal.
 
Hi... I`m wanting to order.. I did read that you can pay for a voucher and use that as payment. I can`t see where I can buy vouchers.
I`m from the US and my card will be declined for the overseas payment.

if you don't want to call your bank, try to order the gift vouchers using PayPal (using a credit card through PayPal, probably):
https://www.dragonbox.de/en/46-gift-vouchers

wait for the voucher to come through in an e-mail (it takes a bit to be accepted by DragonBox shop), then you can order your version of the Pyra preorder using the voucher.
https://www.dragonbox.de/en/45-pyra
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Can I use multi vouchers for one Pyra? Or one Pyra can only uses one voucher?

you can use as many gift vouchers towards your final order as you want. i ordered a preorder voucher, and some gift card vouchers, so that i should have enough to cover it fully when it comes out. (or maybe a little less than fully, if i get an extra battery.)
 
Hey everyone,
reading since the day of the golem.de article (19.10.2015) .... just placed my order yesterday (#639)Eu, mobile, 4gig.....

i bought a 300euro voucher on top to speed things up.....

yihaaaa from berlin
 
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Hi calimero, welcome to the community :)

reading since the day of the golem.de article (19.10.2015)

Nice, I had not seen that one yet.

<edit>Hmmm. 94% including pre-pre orders. Looks like we are getting really close to extending the volume of the first batch :)</edit>
 
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