Spark Electron?

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Anybody else see the Spark Electron go live and get pulled shortly after? REALLY hope im not hallucinating!

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Yes, I saw it too. It looks interesting although it appears to require a $2.99 monthly fee. They are listing it on Kickstarter, but Kickstarter is down. Is there a conspiracy? :smile:

I found this article about it.: https://gigaom.com/2015/02/25/spark-electron-wants-to-make-cellular-connectivity-easy-as-wi-fi/

Here is the Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sparkdevices/spark-electron-cellular-dev-kit-with-a-simple-data-plan

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Thats just awesome ! :open_mouth:

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Great article, thanks for the post!

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Sorry guys, Kickstarter went down! Once it’s back up, we’ll make an official announcement

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One curious point is that the article states that the Spark guys do not have an agreement with a cellular provider yet. If that is true, it raises some interesting questions:

  1. How can you price a cellular service if you don’t know how much it will cost you?
  2. How can you embed a cellular radio if you don’t know what network it will be using (the carriers use different technologies)?
  3. What is the risk that they don’t get a carrier agreement and hence that the product is not actually released?
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Hi @JL_678 - the information in the article there is factually incorrect, we are sending her a message to change that line. There is no risk, we have a deal on the table that we will be announcing later.

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Zach,

Thank you for the rapid response! I appreciate your clarification and am glad that the article is wrong. The product looks very cool.

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Hopefully an official announcement will have the answer.

I had to check the calendar and make sure I didn't sleep thru March. Thought for a second it was April 1st. I'm already itching for the KS site to go back up!

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Looks sweet. You’ll have a backer here!

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Hopefully this just means that the early bird Electrons are going to go super fast when we launch happens! :smile:

Sorry for the delay all…can’t wait…

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Thanks fellas! Sorry for the false start, all of us in the Spark office are like this right now:

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We need to Sparkify this one

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I am getting to excited to wait for more info. But this Electron is based on Photon + 2/3G?

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Kickstarter just came back online. Here’s hoping that the Electron will return shortly! , :smile:

Edit: Awesome! The Spark.io front page is now updated with the Electron!

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PLEDGED! I know you guys will make this another EPIC market changing product.

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Neat! Exciting news, I’ll be following this closely.

edit: kneejerk reaction - Jumped on the early bird special. Why? Because Kickstarter, I guess!

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