present 
(I hope, that they wont be right without knowing it in advance)
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The “delivery date” note on the sales page changed from November to December for a while, indicating that handsets bought “today” would arrive in December. Now it’s back to November again :¬).
For us pre-orderers it probably never changed. Might get it before my birthday!!!
I’d be curious whether during distribution there will be an instruction on how to root the phone. Would that be voiding warranty (because if you do a mistake during rooting you can destroy the entire phone)?
I’d be interested in setting my phone up exactly the way I want to before using it every day.
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Hi
This is not entirely correct. Rooting in itself is not dangerous. It’s unlocking the bootloader on locked down phones. Sometimes, people say rooting, when they mean unlocking the bootloader also. Depending on device, unlocking can brick your phone. Fairphone stated that the bootloader will be unlocked, and that you will be able to install alternative oses. See blog post about Jolla, for example. Also, I think I remember a post or blog entry that even rooted you will not automatically lose warranty.
Klaus
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lklaus is right: unlocking is dangerous. I unlocked several phone and once had a Huawei nearly bricked. But Huawei has a mechanism to reload firmware with a not answering phone (I don’t know of other phones but samsung).
Rooting is easy: find the right “superSU.zip” for your phone and store it at root (main-folder) of your SD-card, unlock phone’s bootloader, insert SD-card, start phone in bootloader-mode, chose install ZIP, chose superSU.zip from SD-card and install. Ready.
Whats makes rooting dangerous is the ability to change everything on your phone e.g. delete any file from system and doing so to make your phone unusable.
Spielmops
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I guess you might have seen it, @anon90052001, but I started a thread over here regarding the camera shutter lag. Some data on that would be great!
Hi,
I’ll ask @Douwe, our new Community Manager, to check in on the question about rooting with our software team. And @humorkritik, I saw your thread but I don’t have any info to share about the camera shutter.
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Hey there,
Are there already any later news about the “counter”? Would be great to hear something about it again 
Thanks and Best Regards 
niklasgruenefeldt
does not look good from what I hear here. But I’ll keep on asking to bring it back. But hey, maybe ‘Number of Phones delivered’ would be an even more interesting counter on the website soon
We’ll see, I’ll keep you posted!
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10 november 2015
20,626 phones sold
(I will update anytime I get new numbers)
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Wow, that’s…worring 
, less than 5 000 fairphones sold in 1 month, i hope that it will take off when the phone is going to be delivered ( reviews, tests, videos, will make it shine bright like a diamond over internet ! )
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Delivery begins in December (for those who already purchased). But on the shop for new customers/orders - then delivery is in January.
Yes a little confusing, but hopefully after production/delivery begins then it will be easier to talk about.
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I think there is no incentive at the moment to get one because neither can you be part of crowdfunding anymore, nor will the phone be shipped anytime soon. I guess sales will lift off in January again, when the FP2 is in stock.
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Remark :
if you buy a phone today, the “shopping cart” page will give you an “expected delivery : December 2015”.
Yes 
I don’t understand why there is no simple gallery of live pictures of the phone on the shop website. It would attract/convince buyers…
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If I needed a new smartphone, my main issue with the FP2 right now would be that it’s not in the hands of normal mortals yet. I would wait for a reasonable amount of users’ feedback before I would jump. At least that’s what I did back in 2014.
And frankly I assume that’s holding back many others right now as well, even more so given it’s 200 Euros more expensive this time. So in my eyes it’s just a question of time when purchases gain traction again. 
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+1!!
But could maybe because at the moment there is no need to sell a lot more.
First priority: acomplish the current orders - then think about to sell more.
Plus: maybe that coulde be also a difference to apple & Co: give no extra arguments of buying a phone you not urgendtly NEED (not: want!) by providing to much shine HD-pics…If you need a phone, you do support the idea, you trust some reviews - you should buy it. Not because it only looks nice…just a thought…
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Hi Fred,
This was a known issue and should now be fixed. Thanks for the tip!
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I just buy one, and "expected delivery was January, that mean it will be December ? 