After a few false starts that disappointed more than one backer, Pressy today announced that its Pressy button, also known as the Almighty Android Button, has begun to ship. Some 15,000 orders shipped out yesterday and the remainder should be headed out by tomorrow. There’s no stopping it now…all the Pressys from the first ever produced batch have left the factory! […]
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Pressy “Almighty Android Button” runs into more production issues
After promising an update to explain the latest delays, Pressy yesterday provided a detailed update to project backers (including EyeOnMobility) on where the Kickstarter project stands. It turns out that they discovered a new issue on the manufacturing line when the first production Pressy buttons came off the line. “Lack of precision in one of the assembly steps” resulted in […]
More delays for Pressy “Almighty Android Button?”
The last we posted about the Pressy “Almighty Android Button” things were looking up. Shipments were set to start in late April. It’s now almost mid-May and, judging by recent comments left on the project’s web page, no one has received a shipment notification yet. While there have been no official updates since April 28, Nimrod Black, one of the […]
Pressy “Almighty Android Button” shipments to begin in late April
Pressy today provided its Kickstarter backers with some good news. After running into production quality issues that forced it to delay shipments from its original March time frame, those are now behind it and its manufacturing partner and production is now underway. Over the next two weeks, over 40,000 Pressy buttons will come off the manufacturing lines. Best of all, […]
Xiaomi headphone button looks almost identical to Kickstarter’s Pressy
Xiaomi’s Hugo Berra yesterday showed off a new gadget that the Chinese company is working on. Still nameless, the small gadget is effectively a small button that plugs into your Xiaomi phone’s headset jack. Different click types trigger up to 10 different actions such as taking a picture or recording a phone call. If it sounds familiar, it’s because it’s […]
Pressy “Almighty Android Button” postpones delivery date to mid-April
While Pressy, a programmable multi-function button that fits in the audio jack of an Android smartphone, has made great progress since launching as a Kickstarter project in August 2013, the latest update brought a bit of bad news with it. With production ramping up, production quality has proven to be a challenge with quality assurance running across “too many faulty […]
Pressy “Almighty Android Button” blows by Kickstarter goal within a day
Chances are that your Android smartphone has precious few physical buttons on it. Touchscreens and capacitive buttons have effectively taken over most of the functions that buttons served not so long ago. Now a Kickstarter project wants to bring the button back and judging by the initial response, so do a lot of people. Pressy, also known as “the Almighty […]