The Mirabook : Turn your smartphone into a laptop

Fri Aug 7 '20 Announcement
over 4 years ago – Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 07:21:40 AM

Dear backers,

We hope that the COVID19 situation is better in your area. Like we said last time, an economic crisis is striking all over the world and one of our Chinese suppliers failed to deliver the electronic boards on time. Since the end of June we have tried to find different solutions. The supplier wanted Miraxess to lend him money, but we refused because of the high risk. We then asked our factory to do so, and after 2 weeks of negotiation our factory accepted but the supplier refused for unknown reasons.  By the time we agreed on something it was already August, and now the supplier said that he found a solution and he will deliver the boards mid-august.

As you can see, making a production with such a supplier is something tricky and uncertain, that is why we are doing our possible to change it for next production. Talking about next production, this will contain all your Mirabooks and is now planned to happen in late October, early November. Once we receive the money from the sales of the current production, we will immediately order the next ones.

On the good news, Miraxess has been selected by the Korean Ministry of Startup & SME to participate in an acceleration program in Seoul for 3 months. This will be the opportunity to launch in Korean market, sign partnerships and meet investors to ensure our future.

We know some of you will blame our team for the delays and it is their right to do so, however, we will focus on the positive comments because we have created something great thanks to all of you.

Be safe, take care, and see you next time ?

Cheers

Mon Jun 29 '20 Announcement
over 4 years ago – Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 06:10:07 AM

Dear supporters,

We hope you guys are all safe and well from the recent situation.  Many companies and project will suffer from the economic crisis. Be reassured, it will not be the case for Miraxess. There are disasters but there are also opportunities opening to us all. The Mirabook and Samsung DeX are a great solution to the recent telework trend all over the world. In addition to that, we have identified that a Mirabook fleet replacing a laptop fleet can create 70% of savings on the company TCO (Total cost of Ownership). For this reason, many groups, companies or public organizations are dealing with us today. Our little startup is about to grow very shortly with new hiring and, we hope, a bright future. If you think your company can be interested, let us know ?

(Picture of our CEO Yanis this week end, showing the Mirabook to one of our investor in Geneva)

What is happening now?

At the moment we are finalizing the last details of our orders to the factory. This order includes all accessories, and of course all Mirabook for you guys. Please be sure to confirm your order on Backerkit platform in the next few days. This order includes many other customers and we are awaiting their payment before purchasing components.

The production which was suppose to be done in May is finally coming in July. There are 2 main reasons to this. The plastic supplier has delivered faulty button parts while the Board manufacturer has financial troubles and cannot deliver the rest of his production.

Everything always takes longer than expected. We are getting used to this frustration. We are deeply sorry for all of this, and hope you'll all be happy when you'll get your hands on this product you helped us build. We would like to thank our Japanese partner for all his support and effort since the beginning on the project. We now have tremendous opportunities on the Japanese market. 

The wait is almost over, thank you for your patience, and thank you for your support.

Tue Apr 7 '20 Announcement
over 4 years ago – Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 12:32:57 PM

Hello guys,

We hope that you are all safe from COVID19. In this period of quarantine, our CEO has made a video presenting its computing setup at home. Please check out, like, & share ;)

This future Miraxess is trying to build is possible because you have contributed to our first project. Thank you very much, you are the best.

Please take care of you and your family during the COVID crisis.

Cheers

The Mirateam

Tue Mar 31 '20 Announcement
over 4 years ago – Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 08:31:04 AM

Hello guys,

I hope you are all safe considering the actual situation with COVID-19. Be sure that we have taken the necessary actions for our team to stay as safe as possible during this period of economic slowdown.

Our startup is largely suffering from this and we have to be very careful on our next moves to not compromise our financial situation.

Chinese suppliers were off for few months but now everything is just starting to get back to "normal". The production that was suppose to happen in March will happen end of April. We are actually  organising everything up with the assembly factory.

The GOOD NEWS :

We have shipped Mirabook to  5% of backers few days ago and we're in the process of delivering 10% more between May and June through our japanese distributor HTL.

We all want to go faster, but it is still progress and we should keep being positive. Be sure that we're dealing with what we have in hands. Our new target is to deliver 100% of you guys before September.

Talking about Japan, our partner has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to grow their order. https://www.makuake.com/project/mirabook/?utm_source=mirabook&utm_medium=sns_share_tw

If you are in Japan and wants to get a Mirabook for June, you are free to participate or share the campaign. For those who do no see this as fair considering you ordered first:

- New Japanese backers don't buy Mirabook at the same price.

-Sales channels are in place and we have to take this opportunity to ensure financial viability and secure your delivery afterwards.

-Our partner is also an Indiegogo backer and big supporter of the project.

One more thing, you'd be happy to hear that we are starting to work with UK Police forces, here is a picture of the product you have contributed to create, in action.

Thank you for your support and for your positive attitude and please be safe during this special period.

Cheers,

-The MiraTeam.

Mon Jan 27 '20 Announcement
almost 5 years ago – Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 08:11:36 AM

Hello everyone and Happy New year,

Through the Mirabook project we have experienced a lot of difficulties, financial troubles and delays. We have now passed most of these steps and have found stability in our cashflows and perspectives. The Miraxess company has a product, cash, customers , and most importantly backers to deliver.

The actual Mirabook is not perfect, but it is great and satisfying for users. Our next challenge is now to control the quality. As for now, the first production had between 10 to 15% of Mirabook no passing our Quality control. This represents a huge money loss for the company and that is why it is necessary to improve the final quality. Here are some example of issues:

-Speakers not working

-Flickering screen

-USB not working

-Stuck keys on the keyboard

-Dark screen

Since December we try to deal with the different suppliers to improve the next production. Unfortunately we did not reach our objective  to produce before Chinese New Year. The screen suppliers was unable to provide before the due date despite our insistance. We are now in the most frustrating part of the year where we have to wait for the Chinese vacation to end to restart production. Unfortunately the Virus which took part in China will not arrange things up.

We'll push for the next batch of 1500 to be ready for mid March, so your Mirabook deliveries should start early April.

As always, our team is available on social networks to answer your questions and read your positive comment. Thank you for your support ;)

Wish you all the best for 2020

Cheers,

-The Mirateam