This was off-topic, problem is solved. Folding original post.
As such, you had a good question. You could ask @rainemak to break it out to a new thread (I believe only mods are allowed to do this).
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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy… I got the email!!
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Me too, yesterday evening. Ordered in May.
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Lucky you! (20 chars)
Back to topic: I received my order link, but it only supports credit card payment.
I do not own a credit card. Can I pay it with PayPal somehow?
Best regards
Fuchur
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Hello,
I have also received an invitation. Since I can’t/don’t know how to coordinate several apps that are important to me (due to Bluetooth) and several other apps, I decided to skip the C2 purchase. Since I’ve been trying to support SFos since the First one, is there anyone willing to use my discount coupon to buy a C2? 
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Maybe discussed elsewhere : what are your thoughts on missing 5G in the new C2 device ?
Personally I don’t care, in most places I am LTE is 150 Mbps, even if less, on phone it’s totally enough in my opinion.
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I second that + 5g power consumption is significantly higher, so I would probably switch to LTE anyway
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A colleague of mine working (in the European Commission) on 5G tech, noted that 5G is about smarter energy management overall. Does this not apply to the device/receiver, on average, as well, compared with older generation networks ?
5G is about using as much frequency bands as possible to transmit as much data as possible, the faster the better. And of course, with low latency. And everything interconnected, i.e. IoT, V2X, etc.
The aim of the standard is mostly to optimize the used resources as much as possible with the final aim of reducing resource usage, i.e. optimize the battery usage of the devices.
Having said that. 4G is more than enough for me.
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5G is anticipating on a higher need for energy when digital possibilities will expand. At the same time 5G will use this energy more efficiently, they say. Marketing? Indeed ever faster, ever more. I am satisfied with Jolla C2 having 4G.
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It is mostly marketing since there is almost no difference for the end user, except the fancy 5G icon on the screen of the phone.
In fact, I am sure that we will never see a decent V2X deployment, at least in Europe, due to the lack of business case.
The number of antennas and base stations that would have to be deployed in combination with the added costs to the vehicles will never be justified over the advantages which is supposedly offering.
In closed environments, e.g. factories, campuses, ets. it will be surely viable but not for a complete deployment in a city or highways.
It will be more interesting to see the developments in the case of remote (IoT) locations in which a lot of devices still work under GSM.
Having said that, C2 having 4G is mooooooooooooore than enough.
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My old X10 also has 4G and data speed is also enough for me, BUT: Will C2 support VoLTE?? Thats the question and not ‘does it support 5G’. Without VoLTE the phone switches back to 2G, that is no problem as long as 2G still exists. But it becomes a big problem as soon as 2G is shut down by providers to use the frequencies for more profitable 4G/5G.
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I would not worry too much about it. Implementing VoLTE is purely a software thing and thus if not available from scratch, I am pretty sure that it will be activated sooner or later (hopefully sooner).
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In this thread, rainemak was writing about the state of Volte implementation for C2 and there is a first batch of C2 being sent to Volte testers in different countries across Europe. So yes it seems the Volte calling will be there.
About the 5G battery consumption what has to be taken into consideration is a real-world situation. In case of 5G you will probably have a worse coverage compared to LTE in many areas and due to higher frequencies used the signal is going to be attenuated more indoors. The weaker the signal, more energy is consumed by the modem
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They asked for test volunteers and got them. There 's a video about such call on their channel. My guess is that they just need to test different configs for different providers.
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Xperia 10 V got 5G, right? If so, I for one welcome it. My rural 4G mast at home has become weaker as of lately assumably for reasons not related to my current phone, and also in the denser areas the network feels like getting jammed during the rush hours like I think 3G did back in the day.
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Delivery update,
Next batch of final payment links will be sent later today – stay tuned. In addition, we have confirmed mass production for C2, it’ll happen between October 1st and 3rd. Let’s see if we can get pre-mass production devices to Sailathon in Prague 
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