Ok everyone… it’s been a very long wait to get to this point, but now we have confirmed receipt of a bulk inventory order of SmartMX3 P71 MOB10 package chips for making Apex Flex and Apex Jumbo products. Antenna re-design is underway now and we should be able to start full scale production by mid to late February.
The Flex One beta participants who purchased Flex One beta units from us during the beta program will be contacted and will be the first to receive VivoKey Apex Flex units. After that, Apex Flex will immediately be put up for public sale. There will be no beta program for the Apex Flex.
It’s getting so clooooooooose. Hey remember when I thought I could wait for Apex for my first implant… and then didn’t even make a month of waiting… oh those were the days, huh? haha.
Very, very excited. 100% feel free to just answer “No idea yet” or “Can’t say yet”, but do you happen to have any idea of price point? I need to begin saving now (this’ll be my first flex wedge!), having some idea of price would help a ton (but again, literally no worries if you can’t yet).
Not yet. I can say the flex one beta version was $349. We plan to offer the Apex for less.
It will actually be smaller and without a wedge shape. Still needs the 4G flex needle to install, but easier installation and shorter than the wedge design.
Thanks for that info, still very helpful! I have a rough upper bound now
Yeah, I saw your posts of the new antenna shape, have you thought of a name to refer to that form factor? Wasn’t sure what to call it, hence my use of the word wedge (as opposed to the disk flexies).
If all goes according to plan, this is the flex form factor moving forward. That means they don’t need a distinction, they are the standard flex form factor. The classic wedge shape is the wedge flex.
It might make more sense if we all collectively come to terms with how “beta” our efforts/interests are when compared to the products that will be accepted by the general population. VivoKey =/= DT in more than name
this is still part of the game plan… but it has been complicated by one thing - the payment applications for mastercard/visa which are pre-loaded in the hopes that one day we can unlock that functionality with blessings from mastercard and visa… those will cause problems with the idea of unlocking the chip… we may end up with the need to make a “totally open” version of the Apex which has no applets on it at all, including the VivoKey identity applet we will use to link Apex to the platform with.
it is being explored… there are elements of these applets built deeper into the chip… nxp is the maker of these applets and it’s tied to the chip’s rom mask…
yes just get a free developer account with fidesmo and you can deploy your own applets with ease. if you want to publish those applets on fidesmo there is a process for that but it’s not that hard.
this is the other reason for needing an “unlock” option for the chips… we are working on sorting it out.
haha