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Clicks just said 20% of Batch 1 has now shipped as of July 1st, and they announced they hit 10% on June 18th. That’s 13 days to move the needle by 10% for what they called the “mid-June production ramp-up”. If they keep that exact pace, getting the remaining 80% out the door takes us all the way to mid-October.
To actually hit their estimate of having 100% of batch 1 shipped by the end of July, they have to increase their current production rate by almost 4x.
My hope is that the ramp-up we were supposed to get in mid-June didn't happen as expected because they actually listened to early complaints and took the time to tweak the slider tolerances. If they slowed down to fix the hardware, I get it.
But hopefully that full 4x ramp-up is happening right now. Otherwise, there’s no way they hit the July target to have 100% of batch 1 shipped and they will need to move the goalposts yet again. Realistically, I'm starting to accept I probably won't see my late-Jan batch 1 preorder until August or September. The joke that many have said that this will be a Christmas present is looking more realistic.
Looking back, it's pretty clear those first 5,000 units were rushed out the door before they were truly ready, just to stop the wave of canceled preorders and appear to meet the Spring shipping deadline. Based on how this is going I wouldn't want to be a day-one backer of the Communicator—hopefully, Clicks has learned some things from the power keyboard rollout and they don’t repeat those same mistakes.

Just looking at the actual hardware complaints from people who already have their devices, I’m completely shifting my perspective on these delays.
I’m a batch 1 order from later in January, so keeping reality in mind, I know I’m still looking at a lot of wait time ahead of me. I've been just as frustrated as anyone else about the communication and the missed windows. But seeing the specific complaints about the slider function completely flipped my stance.
People are calling out a noticeable wobble right out of the box. As well as, on full-sized phones like the Pro Max models, the weight is literally causing the slider mechanism to collapse and slip down if you tilt the phone at an angle. The slider is the entire gimmick of this MagSafe device. If it can’t handle the weight of the larger, heavier phones, that's a massive issue.
On top of that, another user u/phantompoint⁠ pointed out that the tracking numbers going out right now to Canada and Australia all seem to be from orders before the January 2nd cutoff. If that's the case, it means they are still just clearing the tail-end of that initial 5,000-unit milestone, and the post-cutoff units haven’t even started moving yet.
Pure speculation on my part—and I obviously don't know what's actually happening on the factory floor—but if they are still lingering on those early orders, it makes you wonder if they are intentionally slowing things down to look into these slider issues. Honestly, I hope they are.
That’s why I’m personally okay with the extra wait now. Pressuring them to rush out tracking numbers feels kind of counterproductive. If everyone keeps screaming for updates, they might just panic and dump flawed units out the door to clear the backlog in order to shorten the already overdue wait times and appease people.
I want these mechanical issues fixed way more than I want my device right this second. A delayed shipment sucks, but spending this much on a MagSafe accessory that slips under the weight of a larger phone is a joke. Let’s give them the breathing room to get the hardware right.

TL;DR: Early reviews show the slider wobbles and even collapses. I'd way rather wait for them to fix the hardware than pressure them into shipping a flawed device.

Most Batch 1 buyers in the U.S. are looking at August delivery if we’re lucky, with zero confidence in their timeline projections. Does anyone know when this will be available in stores? I wonder if it will be before I get my pre-order like Clicks did with the Motorola RAZR keyboard case. Not a single buyer in China or even Hong Kong has gotten their unit, they have not even gotten a tracking email. Total shit show. Fan boys, come at me.

Yeah another post about it. We have the right to complain, get over it.

They said "Spring" when we pre-ordered in January. With working prototypes all over the internet, any sensible person thought that meant a March delivery. Instead, this has turned into a bad Kickstarter launch.
We have less than a month left in Spring and batch 1 promises are officially broken. The FCC and CA certifications slated for March are just sitting in limbo, and we haven’t heard a single word about why they're held up. Honestly, batch 1 probably has 30k orders minimum—that 5,000 number they threw out feels like a total distraction just to keep people from losing it. I seriously don’t see this thing shipping in the next 30 days like promised.
And the wildest part? Some of you are more mad at us for being annoyed than at the company for blowing past their own dates? Wow. 🤯