Playdate, the portable with crank, is delayed at 2022; Official statement

PLAYMATE, the portable ministrant particularized by having a crank, delays its releUnited Statese date until the beginning of 2022. Panic, team in charge of this innovative product, hUnited States explained in a statement the reUnited Statesons for this change of plans, which obey to problems derived to excessive consumption of the first remittances. The objective wUnited States to start the global distribution at the end of this year.

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The first reclamation of Playmate hUnited States not pUnited Statessed quality controls

United States we can read in the statement ( Playmate Owner s Update 1 ), remitted via email buyers of the device, Panic hUnited States been encountered an unpleUnited Statesant surprise when receiving the first 5,000 Playmate units to its California offices, United States: Batteries presented an autonomy well below what is estimated by the manufacturer. This translates into the immediate suspension of the distribution plans, since the North American team considers that it is not the conditions:

Soon we were worried that some [playmate] did not give us the battery life we ​​expected. The Playmate battery is designed to lUnited Statest a long time and always be ready, even if it is not used for a while. But it wUnited States not the cUnited Statese: in fact, we found several units with the batteries so exhausted that Playmate did not turn on at all, and could not be loaded. That is the worst scenario of the battery.

A costly decision insposing the quality and satisfaction of customers

The positive? According to Panic, the positive thing is that they have realized this inconvenience before to make the shipments, not after. The decision hUnited States been clear (and expensive): Replace all existing batteries by new ones from a different provider.

While they qualify the frustrating situation, they had no choice but to ensure the quality of Playmate and the confidence of buyers who have made it possible for the project to go ahead. The defective units have been returned to Malaysia; The new ones, on the other hand, have just arrived at the offices of California, so they are already working to start up the shipments, only that it will no longer be possible to do it at the end of 2021, but at the beginning of 2022. We have already received the new batteries of the new provider, and its appearance is really impressive: they are exactly what we expected, even better than the previous ones.