Elephone have released their first update for the Elephone Vowney, but don’t wait for an OTA as this is a manual update.
The update for the Elephone Vowney is still based on Android 5.1 and can be downloaded from the official Elephone forums here. At this time Elephone haven’t provided a change log for the update so we’ll assume it’s a minor update with just a few stability and perofmance fixes.
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While I had the chance to speak to Elephone I also asked if rumours that the Vowney was to be cancelled and replaced with the Elephone P9000 were true (apparently these rumours have sparked up again). Elephone say its not true and manufacture of the Vowney will re-commence after the Chinese New Year celebrations.
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That is still bad. This is a phone that was originally supposed to launch in June, they should have had more than enough stock manufactured by this point.
If I were them I would have cancelled and gone with the Vowney Pro as the Vowney.
The rumour which was pretty much truth, was the Vowney was to be replaced with the P9000 Edge.
I still think the Vowney hardware is good value even if they dropped the e-touch button and put it in the P9000. The big test now is if the community surrounding it can grow. It could be crippled by lack owner-base, or Elephone simply being restrictive with software updates.
In short supplies. Customers will be more furious when they read that production will start ‘again’ after the 15th of February. Note many are waiting for the 31st of January for their orders.
Many are going to cancel their orders and buy one of the numerous better phones available.
Now imagine those resellers that have been holding up customers with the pre-sale bs and have to refund most of these customers and take a bad feedback for something they have no responsibility whatsoever.
Could lead to a lot of resellers dropping Elephone from their sites. This could end up being a PR nightmare for Elephone.
There are photos of the boxes being delivered and phones tested at Elephonemobile.com ?!