There is no Strobe but only Beacon which is decided when the project started. People say Strobe is not a must. Furthermore, a strobe-enabled flashlight will need a confirm or register (something like that) in EU in 2019.
I do not believe that they sell it as host, e.g. because of the glued driver and the lack of retainer ring.
Their C8F is for sale as host. They are not a company who does not sell hosts at all.
Personally, I do not expect them to offer the SP70 as host version as I think it would only be negligibly lower priced compared to the full flashlight. If you deduct the XHP70.2, the LED board and the driver they still need to get a reasonable margin and I do not not expect a host version sold for $ 25-30 less. It also depends on how much revenue they would make with a host version, especially if they offered it with a smooth orange peel reflector only. I think this is different in comparison to the widely used and more versatile C8S or C8F host they have for sale.
I mean if you haven’t seen the pattern yet… Forum asks for one thing in relative agreement and they end up doing whatever they want. Sometimes with explanation and sometimes not. It is what it is. Hopefully they know the “rest” of their market better than we think we do.
I would say this option was locked in and agreed upon 100%. It was the whole point of this project but then again so was the SMO reflector option.
I guess its hard to deal with companies that have a ever revolving door of reps that come and go fairly frequent. Every few months the reps change and a new one comes in and tries to out do the last one to save a few bucks to look good.
I don’t blame the reps they are paid very little and have to live in hostels with there team and are thrown in the deep end right away.
Plus you lose the rapport between us and the reps.