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 […]
OPhone shown; Steorn deals with security issues
There have been a few interesting developments on Steorn CEO Shaun McCarthy’s Facebook page over the past couple of days. Today we were given our first look at a physical OPhone (rather than the design illustrations we’ve been shown over the past couple of months). Here it is: As expected, the OPhone is a simple […]
Why the six week delay?
Back in mid-December, going by the videos and Facebook posts they released, it appeared that Steorn had received all of the parts they needed to build and ship dozens, if not hundreds, of OCubes. Rows of assembled OCubes were shown, sitting on a desk, just waiting to be packaged and shipped. Shaun McCarthy even personally offered […]
Irish Times profiles Steorn
The Irish Times published a lengthy article about Steorn yesterday, featuring an interview with CEO Shaun McCarthy and accompanied by a seven minute video in which Shaun takes reporter Mark Hillard on a tour of Steorn’s facilities. The Irish Times piece is a trimmed down version of the full article, which was the cover story […]
Shipping update and Business Post article
On Wednesday Steorn posted on their Facebook page, in response to being asked when they will start shipping OCubes, that they “expect to have shipping clearance by the end of this week or early next week.” If this turns out to be accurate, then it lines up with the 6 to 7 week estimates that […]
OCube no longer sold out
Steorn has updated their Orbo.com online store, with the OCube no longer being marked as “sold out”. Instead, it is stated that “shipping is 6 weeks from payment”. For the OPhone, shipping is said to be 12 weeks from payment. Nothing else new on the Steorn front lately. I’m still awaiting arrival of my own […]