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Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone
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Re: Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone
#32The site seems to be a bit overloaded; I got through to the entire process including verifying the Mastercard transaction but the order doesn't show up in my account's order history. I just emailed them and now we'll wait and see. Could very well be just the mad dash of a lot of geeks trying to get these phones right now causing it to topple over some systems; I'll be patient :)
Exact same experience for me. Hit some database errors along the way but I managed to pay and verify the MasterCard transaction. Then nothing on the "My Orders". No email confirmation. Emailed them and fingers crossed a peak will be on its way soon!
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#33It's sad you can only pay with credit cards. I refuse to get a credit card.
You could buy a pre-paid card and just use it to buy the phone.
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#34Hmm, since the website is pretty much hosed, I can't see what it says, but... Even if it ships worldwide, as somebody mentioned, how can one tell whether it actually works with ? There's no doubt a lot of coarse-grained commonality between different carriers in different countries, but there also seem to be many differences when you get down to the details, and a lot of incentive to add gratuitous minor incompatibili…
I'm not familiar with the situation in Europe/USA, but I've never had trouble using a GSM phone with any GSM SIM card from any carrier in Asia. I'm not sure about the situation for CDMA or LTE.
If you're in the US, this phone will only get 3G/HSPA service on T-Mobile, and it's MVNOs.
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#35If you're in the UK, leave the VAT field blank. Also, KEONS ARE NOW SOLD OUT!
I got the same error earlier, that "VAT is empty". Now they've fixed it. VAT is automatically added. For EU customers, including VAT, it comes to 110 EUR (Keon) and 180 EUR (Peak). And yeah, I chose the 18-EUR shipping option. Successfully ordered the PEAK for 200 EUR. Yay!
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#36CAUTION: After I had entered my payment details for my credit card (in Safari) the site forwarded to a white page and nothing happened. I checked the console, and realized that a javascript error caused it to not work properly in Safari. I could finish the process by manually doing a document.forms[1].submit() in the console. That placed my order, and forwarded me back to their homepage. HOWEVER: On the homepage, I g…
Same here.
Another problem: They charge VAT even if you have a valid non-spanish VAT number.
I guess it's a pretty wild day for a small company :p
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#37Sigh. My order came to $155, and the site's trying to charge me 155 EUR. That's not really good, given that 155 EUR is about $200. EDIT: It will charge the correct price if you switch the prices on the site to EUR. Second problem: one of my cards gave an unspecified error, the other was was denied by the bank for whatever reason. :/
This is just a taste of what it's like to be a european buying electronics from US firms - i.e. the US price=1000 USD, UK price=1000 GBP (1526 USD). I'd count yourself lucky the discrepancy is only 45 dollars :)
edit: not to detract from what is indeed an annoying problem, which you appear to have solved anyway
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#38It's sad you can only pay with credit cards. I refuse to get a credit card.
It's sad that your bank doesn't offer virtual CCs. They're awesome ;)
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#39Link to database cannot be established: SQLSTATE[42000] [1203] User db59706 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the user id makes it sound like they're on shared hosting. I surely hope not.
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#40Site is being hammered.
I managed to get through and bought a Peak, but it's not showing up on the My Orders page, yet.