Quote from: Pmalek on May 11, 2022, 08:24:50 AM

Quote from: n0nce on May 10, 2022, 05:23:20 PM

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All right, so we have our first Foundation Passport HW added to the list. A very interesting hardware wallet I wouldn't mind testing out if it weren't for the bad battery life and the fact that it's produced in the USA making it quite expensive to ship and import in Europe. Batch 2 should fix the battery problems, but unless Foundation starts working with a EU based distributor, it won't be an attractive purchase. At least not for me personally.

How happy are you with it so far?

Regarding the battery life, it was very annoying at the start (seed backup takes some time, i.e. battery drain as well as my intensive testing), however in daily usage it drains pretty slowly.

Quote from: n0nce on Today at 12:31:20 AM

I actually have a little update on the 'battery situation'. After having bought a huge pack of Alkaline batteries (40 or so), I've only used 2 of them so far and switched to number 3 & 4 a while ago. If you just turn it on, verify an address and turn it back off, it (understandably - but still) uses very very little energy and you can use it regularly without swapping batteries much. It also doesn't drain them at all if you leave them in when powered down (I had the suspicion there was a little power draw while turned off but I was wrong).
So it's not as bad as it first seemed, but it's still clear they messed up the circuitry; Foundation honestly admitted themselves they found this problem too late & had to 'quick fix' it by telling people to buy expensive Lithium batteries. I expect this to be much better on v2, let's see if the device meets expectations.

They actually do have a distributor; v1 was available through BTCDirect.
Here's a list of all resellers: https://foundationdevices.com/resellers/

It's currently one of my most frequently used wallets, probably only second to a software wallet.