I ordered a 2nd SmartQ 7 from Eletroworld last week and thought it would ship around July 1/2.
Today, Eletroworld indicated that there will be a delay in my order and those of anyone with a similar time frame because of demand and the need for a firmware correction.
Eletroworld's email indicated that my Q7 will ship around July 10 with Firmware 3.1 from the OEM (SmartDevices).
Part of their email makes the following statements:
"[The]...manufacturer is upgrading the firmware to solve [a] wifi connect problem.... Factory also found some users miss wifi when they flash firmware many times. WinCE for Q5 will upload this week, Q7 next week, [but] only chinese version. Need [to] store [WinCE] in SD card to run [on the] SmartQ. It is free first, need pay later."
I hope folks will be patient and wait for firmware 3.1 because I'm one of those who flashed the firmware many times to experiment with Mer, etc.
I'm also glad to find out more about the WinCE firmware timeframe. I'm looking forward to experimenting with that as well.
Overall, the strong demand for the SmartQ 7 is a very positive thing and I'm glad that SmartDevices is taking the time to fix the Version 3 firmware issue some of us ran into.
