Steorn published a new video on their Facebook page today, in which CEO Shaun McCarthy explained the internals of the OCube and described the problems that have been encountered in shipping them so far. McCarthy states that there are now about 20 Orbo-powered products out in the “real world”, and the failure rate so far […]
Month: February 2016
Updates on OGirl’s OPhone and Acland’s OCube, and an open plea to Steorn
Steorn’s spokesmodel Rachel Wallace (aka “#ogirl”) has given her second weekly update on her experience with the OPhone. In the brief video, she states that: The speaker wasn’t really working, so I came in to the offices today to get it fixed… As for the battery, same as last week, every time it runs off, […]
New delay for OCube shipments
This morning I received the following e-mail from Steorn: Hello, firstly we would like to apologize for the delay to shipping your ocube. As we are sure you can appreciate, bringing the ocube to production has been a huge task for us all and we are grateful for your support. We have shipped two ocubes and […]
First OCube delivery confirmed
Frank Acland of e-catworld.com confirms today that he has received his Orbo OCube from Steorn. This is the first confirmed delivery of an OCube. As we’ve come to expect from Steorn, however, the delivery is not without a strange twist. Acland received an e-mail from Steorn alerting him that they realized, too late, that they’d […]
OPhone update from Rachel Wallace
Rachel Wallace posted her first update on her experience with the OPhone today, after the first full week of using it. She reports that: It has drained about three times, and powered off, and then a couple of minutes later, sometimes taking a bit longer, some less, it’s turned itself back on, and when it […]
Second user to put OPhone to the test
A second OPhone user is featured in a new video posted on Steorn’s Facebook page. Jennifer Roe is a bar manager in Dublin who claims to be on the phone constantly throughout the day. She received an OPhone today and is eager to start using it because her current smartphone is “just not able to […]
OCube about to start shipping?
Frank Acland of e-catworld.com wrote yesterday that he’s received a tracking number from Steorn for his OCube shipment. He asked Steorn by e-mail about his OCube’s shipping status and was given a tracking number; when this number was entered into the courier’s tracking form, the sending and destination addresses were shown — meaning that the shipment information had […]