Preorders Have Started. (Previously named starts in two hours)


I just had a thought:
I can't afford to preorder outright, however, would it be possible to buy DragonBox vouchers on a monthly basis and eventually buy a Pyra this way (likely when we have passed the preorder stage)?
If so where are the voucher's located? :)
 
@PokeParadox
Everyone is calling them "vouchers" but they're called "gift cards" in the store.
[doublepost=1462457280,1462456425][/doublepost]here are some of my ideas for pictorial promotional material:

instead of "Got Pyra?" on the Pyra render, make different tongue-in-cheek text rotate in:

Spyware not included. --> Bloatware not included. --> Part of this balanced breakfast. --> ...


or here's some other captions for "negative campaigning":
Happy with locked-down devices? Afraid to play with fire? Then the Pyra is not for you!

Excited to pay your freemium games? Don't get the Pyra, you'd have access to thousands of excellent open-source games and ports, without cost or ads.

Love those ad-happy apps? Forget the Pyra, which has those productivity applications without cost or ads.
 
WizardStan said:
I figured it out.
Note on the specifications page it says

The PLS8 does not support VoLTE, voice over LTE. It falls back (CSFB) on 3G (or less) to send and receive voice calls. Which is fine since that's how most carriers work anyway: it seems very few actually support VoLTE.
But prior to LTE, Verizon was CDMA: the PLS8 CANNOT fall back on their old network. So it can't use the LTE network for voice and it can't use the fallback which it doesn't support so at the very least Verizon would be data only. It's possible that other carriers could still use it for voice as the -US and -E can, but it's also likely that since it was built for Verizon they may have stripped out the voice feature entirely to save money.
The PLS8-V, with only LTE support definitely cannot do voice for anyone, it is strictly LTE data only and not very useful.
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Thank you for your efforts in sleuthing this out. So, do I have this right? I.e. would these statements be correct?

So, for anyone in the US to have a chance to use it for both data and voice, it has to be PLS8-US.
PLS8-US will likely work for both voice and data on AT&T and T-mobile.
PLS8-US will definitely not work for voice but may get some data coverage on Verizon.
There is NO option for a chip that would enable voice on Verizon - not even the PLS8-X or PLS8-V.

Accurate?
 
Grench said:
Thank you for your efforts in sleuthing this out. So, do I have this right? I.e. would these statements be correct?

So, for anyone in the US to have a chance to use it for both data and voice, it has to be PLS8-US.
PLS8-US will likely work for both voice and data on AT&T and T-mobile.
PLS8-US will definitely not work for voice but may get some data coverage on Verizon.
There is NO option for a chip that would enable voice on Verizon - not even the PLS8-X or PLS8-V.

Accurate?
Click to expand...
That is my understanding.
 
Pyra-For-President.png

we leave everything in your very capable nubs.

i can also see the demand to see the Pyra's birth certificate, however.

There's no question about it though; the mother was from Texas, so even though the Pyra was born in Germany, it got US citizenship.
 
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PYRA: With bash as standard
Though I prefer zsh as set up in Arch's liveUSB.

PYRA phone capability: sendSMS 'D&D session tonight at 19:00; remember to bring your miniatures' $(awk '/RPGparty/ {print $1}' contacts.txt)

PYRA: Battery included, but optional

A pocketful of buttons

Must control everything
 
Yea, for me it's the lack of spyware. So if there's a US 4G version, on some networks (like AT&T) it could work as a phone? I was expecting to use data + SIP service, or the like. What sort of software for linux is there even to work as a cellphone? I also always figured I could tether to a phone / hotspot, but replacing a phone might be even better.
 
I considered buying a Fairphone 2 (since it's not only fair but modular too), but will hold off until I see how the Pyra's functions in this regard develop since I don't like Android's blob and spyware and the Ubuntu phones don't seem to be as far in their progress either and I'd still prefer a good Debian with more ways to control than only a touchscreen.

If Pyra does its job well (and I guess it will), I'll probably just get a small clamshell phone with several weeks of standby battery time again since my old one is really old by now and doesn't even support a calendar further than 2015...
 
I hate to bring it up, but cellular networks can easily triangulate your position based on signal strength from cell towers and track your location using that data. :tinfoil:
The police have used this data to check out the alibis of suspects.
 
I was finally able to get my transaction to go. I had to call up my bank's customer service and then they had to contact the fraud team, and finally everything worked out. I am pretty excited for this!
 
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