Any updates on availability of updated 820c?
We are looking at refill with Arrow within Q3.19.
Wow. That’s really sad. Why is it so hard for this board to be made available?
this is due to certain critical part availability. We are exploring other venues still but this is the best we have so far.
What is the critical part? There doesn’t seem to be the same problem in the 410c.
Because 410C didn’t use the same flash storage unit.
Then you are saying that the issue is with availability of the flash memory itself?
Yep, now it’s being resolved.
If this was the only problem with availability of the board, then how come was there no “light” version offered without UFS? As I understand it, the board is capable of booting fully off the uSD card, and this option would have helped a LOT of people get into this board despite the issues with supply of that chip. I, personally, would have bought several, and I know two other people who also would have bought a few each.
I am afraid I do not have a good answer to this. Whether to have another ‘light’ variant of original 820c is not our decision but partner’s.
Personally we would also have hoped 820c availability did not have such problem. We could only apologise as this was not what was intended for originally.
Yang
Well then do you think you could suggest it to them? I’m sure it would be more seriously considered coming from you than from me.
Actually I think just opposite…they heard me too much and it does not ripple anymore 
Is this still on track for Q3? Despite everything, I’d still like to get my hands on a few of these.
Anybody alive in here?
I would be interested to get some info too.
What alternatives would there be? Especially with UFS support (note I don’t care about the onboard UFS, only that it supports UFS and that I can install a socket)? Besides the Hikey 960 or 970?
960 seems to be running out of stock and future is “unsure?”, while the 970 support isn’t great to my knowledge.
