Until the Kickstarter starts, which is planned for November. At which point you can redeem the coupon and back the Kickstarter and get it at a “special price” which is estimated to be $379 (might change up or down). Presumably this is lower than the Kickstarter price itself without the reservation coupon. A bit of a convoluted system, but you can get your $20 back anytime, and it automatically refunds if you don’t back the Kickstarter or the Kickstarter never launches, so that’s cool.

It’s got M.2 and GPIO. This is exactly what you just asked for, but for some reason you saw a picture of it plugged into a monitor and declared it nothing more than a mini PC.

Dust it off! It was a weird device, mostly a toy? This new one is… yeah not sure. More of the same?

same, I assumed it would have full support for nfc which is the protocol I care most about and ordered via kickstarter

only to find out nfc-b would never come

meh

It is a completely different device.

Flipper Zero is for the physical layer: radio, RFID, IR, etc... It is based on a small microcontroller and is mostly "bare metal", think Arduino, ESP32,...

Flipper One is for the network layer: Ethernet, Wi-Fi, 5G, etc... It is a "real computer" running Linux, like a Raspberry Pi.

Yeah, they should have included a comparison on the Kickstart page. If you check out the "we need your help" page, that has a chart with "Zero vs One":

https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/

The two devices are complementary.

flipper zero is just a small device with an SMT32 MCU, flipper one is a whole bloody linux computer, with an rp2350

I suppose the idea is it combines workflows you'd use a flipper zero + pc for into one device. Neat in idea, im not certain who it's truly for in practice. A flipper zero 2 with wifi built in and some minor improvements would have been much more welcome in my eyes.

Zero does mostly "radio" stuff (RFID, subghz, etc). One does mostly "network" stuff (wifi, 5g, etc).

Flipper was born in Moscow from a collab mostly made of Russians and Ukrainians. They were pretty outspoken against the attack on Ukraine and have moved headqurters and almost completely relocated their employees since then.

The original developers are from Russia. They now seem to have an office in London

Absolutely a thing. I’ve got documentation that says I work in ITSEC but I’ve never been stopped with mine. However I don’t travel to BRIC-aligned countries for the most part so YMMV.

I tend to wipe mine before international travel and just stick on IR remote stuff, juuuust in case someone wants to ask a lot of questions. It’s easy enough to restore the back up I take beforehand.

What kind of backdoor would you expect in such a device?