Shipping email (I got my Gemini PDA)

[speculatrix]

I know I'm going to be way down the list, but it looks like planet have a good production pipeline so I reckon they'll be making at least a hundred a day initially.

[speculatrix]

A new member just joined who's holding order number 46. Hopefully he'll pop by and say hello.

[Charlie Stross]

* Waves *

I have order number 46, from February 27th last year.

Because reasons (business-related) I just now ordered a second Gemini 4G to get in ahead of the price rise on Friday. That one is order number 6455, so it's definitely not going to be part of the first batch.

(I assume order numbers are sequential and include non-Gemini accessory items. Compared to the sort of manufacturing volume we expect from, say, Apple when a new iPhone comes out, this is frighteningly artisanal in scale ...!)

[Varti]

Hi Charlie and welcome, it's a huge pleasure and an honour to have you here.

I have read that the total amount of Geminis preordered so far are a bit over 3000, and that they mean to produce that amount in the first batch, so by the end of April every backer might receive his device, but that's just speculation.

Varti

[Varti]

@Rosie
@Charlie Stross
Your Geminis are probably in this photo, apparently these are the first 50 manufactured units:

https://scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0...amp;oe=5B18F23D

Varti

[speculatrix]

Aren't Charlie's being delivered on Elon's new rocket? Hopefully the rocket landing won't scorch his house!

[Varti]

Aren't Charlie's being delivered on Elon's new rocket? Hopefully the rocket landing won't scorch his house!

I'd also like to see my Gemini being delivered to my home by a rocket!

Varti

[Varti]

A new info tidbit from Planet, from a reply they sent some hours ago to a backer: "Not all keyboard layouts are yet finalised. We are proceeding to mass production only with the finalized keyboard. More on this in the coming days." That at least explains why they haven't published all the layouts yet. Source: a post on the FB Gemini Planet page.

Varti

[Rosie]

@Rosie
@Charlie Stross
Your Geminis are probably in this photo, apparently these are the first 50 manufactured units:

https://scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0...amp;oe=5B18F23D

Varti

I'd love to be able to say I'm not ludicrously over-excited.  Unfortunately that would be lying.

Rosie

[Varti]

I'd love to be able to say I'm not ludicrously over-excited.  Unfortunately that would be lying.

Hehe... it would have been a nice touch for Planet to put a sticker on each unit with the name of its owner.

Varti

[jutleys]

Big News! All HDMI cables and cases are ready, and the first Gemini units will start getting prepped for shipping from tomorrow

[speculatrix]

I'd love to be able to say I'm not ludicrously over-excited.  Unfortunately that would be lying.

I've not been this eager to receive a new device in a long time. I think everything I've bought in the last three or four years have been incremental upgrades, nothing revolutionary.

[Varti]

Big News! All HDMI cables and cases are ready, and the first Gemini units will start getting prepped for shipping from tomorrow

Yay! Planet has stated that, for european backers, the units will be shipped from UK, so I guess that, at least for them, they'll be first shipped from China to Planet's office, then from UK to the backers.

I've not been this eager to receive a new device in a long time. I think everything I've bought in the last three or four years have been incremental upgrades, nothing revolutionary.

You can then imagine my excitement, as I'm upgrading from a Zaurus SL-C1000 and a 3G, Gingerbread-based Samsung Galaxy Pocket phone  P.S. happy birthday speculatrix!

Varti

[speculatrix]

Big News! All HDMI cables and cases are ready, and the first Gemini units will start getting prepped for shipping from tomorrow

Yay! Planet has stated that, for european backers, the units will be shipped from UK, so I guess that, at least for them, they'll be first shipped from China to Planet's office, then from UK to the backers.

I've not been this eager to receive a new device in a long time. I think everything I've bought in the last three or four years have been incremental upgrades, nothing revolutionary.

You can then imagine my excitement, as I'm upgrading from a Zaurus SL-C1000 and a 3G, Gingerbread-based Samsung Galaxy Pocket phone  P.S. happy birthday speculatrix!

Varti

thanks, Varti!

having the device shipped from the UK to me is great, because it means I don't need to worry about customs duty, or the device being stuck in clearance because it has a Lithium Ion battery. I once had to send an electric bike battery for "repair" and it was very difficult since no couriers would touch it.

[Charlie Stross]

Planet just posted Update 48 on the Indiegogo campaign page: they've completed first run production and a load of machines has arrived in the warehouse in Hong Kong.

They'll be air-freighting a pallet to the UK shortly and ship orders UK/EU customers "before the Chinese new year" — which is Friday February 16th. ("We will be shipping perks directly from Hong Kong to all other destinations, including Japan and USA.")

" We have produced about a thousand Gemini devices so far, which means the orders below #1200 are likely to receive their Gemini devices soon. We are aiming to send the backer perks roughly in the perk order number save for factory process restrictions and supply chain process restrictions. This is a very rough estimate of which perk orders are to be shipped this or next week. During the next few days we will publish a link or advise a way how you can find out the status of your order - "Still to be produced", "Produced and waiting to ship" and "Shipped"." (Production on further machines will re-start after the Chinese new year; the factories are all closed for a while.)