Delivery Time?

[kern707]

I am not in the US, but in Europe.

I have also ordered a PinePhone (CE with Manjaro) not too many days ago, the order process was a bit unusual because other than an order confirmation, I did not have a clue about if or when my order will be shipped to me, but somewhere in the forum it was mentioned that once the device is being shipped a shipping notification is being sent.

Which is exactly what happened, I have received a few days ago a shipping notification including a tracking number which works, it is on the way and hopefully it will be in my hands by this evening.

There is a thread somewhere here with shipping updates, and it was actually pretty useful - just about a week from the date mentioned about shipping EU orders to the warehouse in Poland, I was able to get a shipping notification. I guess it works the same for US orders? since I already heard of people in the US getting a hold of their delivery? 

I will update when it gets here.

How many days ago is "not too many days ago"?
It's pretty interesting, because I ordered "not too many weeks ago", and still no shipping confirmation...

OK, I have just checked the actual "Order confirmation" email, I have ordered mine on 31.10.2020, I am located in Europe and had my device shipped from the Poland warehouse location (probably a bulk of devices were shipped from China to Poland, and from there to EU participants using local shipments such as DHL).

Side-note: I have also ordered a soft case for it at the same time, which could not be ordered together with the phone so on a separate checkout, that one is being shipped to me directly from Hong Kong, and I have not received it yet, or a notice about a local shipment. I suspect that shipments that go individually from China are slower than those of big bulk shipments to local warehouses, and then distribution using faster local shipping methods. 

UPDATE: I have just received the package a few minutes ago.
So far:
- Manjaro was pre-installed
- Device booted
- Factory pin was 123456
- Device getting significant heat on the upper portion of the back, just by "browsing" the device for about 5-6 minutes (opening apps, using Wifi for checking for software updates), not sure if this is abnormal or not? or maybe it is because I have the device hooked into a charger while at it? might be.

so far only connected to Wifi, haven't tried to insert my SIM card yet.. I will report later with further info)