Spoke To The Factory

[droneb]

HaHa, great.

i was sure the factory wouldn't have sent a bunch of cases with a big crack just for fun.

hope the last days my preorder moved some steps forward

 

[cobaltage]

yeah!

 

[Bosbeetle]

Haha yeah maybe Im even in the 200 now, but I doubt it people bailing out are probably higher up in the list.

 

[borgqueenx]

craig, im very happy to hear this, but they lied before, and miscommunications where also made before.

are you SURE? its gonna be a BIG problem if all the cases would arrive this way.

 

[Bosbeetle]

Haha yeah maybe Im even in the 200 now, but I doubt it people bailing out are probably higher up in the list.

 

[pawprints]

Really cool news and I hope everything goes well from here on in and to plan.

For a small group of people it is an amazing achievment even with all the bumps along the way. Can we have a video of the greenlighting in words? Would just be good to file in the history of the pandora.

Look forward to seeing my Pandora pop through the letterbox (well dropped off by a confused delivery guy).

 

[borgqueenx]

Haha yeah maybe Im even in the 200 now, but I doubt it people bailing out are probably higher up in the list.

damn, im not gonna be the first guy who receives the pandora in the netherlands

unless you have standard airmail shipping.

 

[Jumpman]

I guess everything got greenlighted just because I've cancelled my order and got a nokia N900 today because I was tired of waiting for the pandora. Murphy's law anyone?
However I might still consider getting a panda from the second batch. Good luck guys! keep the good work up!

Well don't feel to bad yet! We all have several more hurdles before these units start to ship out to "Joe Public"!

1. The factory needs to actually ship before the holidays?
2. The cases need to arrive at Texas in one piece?
3. The cases actually need to be worth a damn?
4. Assembly needs to happen? and run smoothly?
5. Package & ship

All this can be done in 2 weeks, or 2 months? I'm optimistic that if they ship some MP units before the holiday, some of us might actually see some units by the end of the month. But if something goes wrong, well you know how that goes! <_<


Chris

 

[fiori_musicali]

 

[droneb]

I feel a LOT happier now that I don't feel OpenPandora are asking us to take on more of the development risks and costs than we already had.

But the other samples wern't like this, so surley they could do what they did the Rev 1 & 2 for Rev 3?

Because they were rushing/being cheap (same thing). Doing the injection molding properly ties up machinery and staff for longer, so the less time they spend on it the more actual money they make from runs of "for sale" cases instead of "for samples" cases.

I don't say I agree with the practise, samples should represent the final product as closely as possible IMHO, but I understand it.

I'm not in the first 1000 so I won't benefit directly from such a run, but I'd be happy to see 1000 customers served sooner rather than later, as long as the cases are up to snuff when received

Cool

I wonder what the next thing to go wrong will be?

Realist!


err... I mean... cynic? :wink:

Oh Cmon, by the price they bought the moulds and the cases, i bet they have to keep things minimal, each test run really cost money they could have spent doing actual money.

if you had a machine running low speed and eating material for about say 4 hours (each) using one operator just to pump out a 2 digits sample (and we've got only 7) and to know i would have to unmount to loose all the job, i wouldnt bother warming it up.

 

[Bosbeetle]

Haha yeah maybe Im even in the 200 now, but I doubt it people bailing out are probably higher up in the list.

damn, im not gonna be the first guy who receives the pandora in the netherlands

unless you have standard airmail shipping.

i do have standard shipping

 

[Lafazar]

What a constant up and down it is to follow this project. It is an interesting experience, that is for sure. And personally I'm glad and even proud being (even a little) part of it.

 

[trooper]

So we have the green light, This is Brilliant news.

I knew there was no need to panic. :rolleyes:

All aboard, Full steam ahead guy`s (and girl`s )

Trooper

 

[GreenDream]

This...Is great news
Puts my frail 15 year old heart at ease.

 

[Sugar_Kane]

Isn't that Evildragon?

 

[Loonie]

Im putting my faith in you guys, this is excellent news, WHOOOP...!!1!11!!!!!

We put our faith... in Blast Hardcheese!

Now this is what I call a great start to the week.

 

[atomicthumbs]

 

[droneb]

i thought you got banned, XD
well happy to see theres still people on the boards

 

[Rathum]

@atomicthumbs

I just pictured Darth Vader yelling "GOAL!" with a Brazilian announcer voice and started cracking up.

Then I pictured an entire soccer match narrated by Darth Vader using his real voice.

 

[Bosbeetle]

My hart goes out to the light since