Reporting from the west coast of Canada, ordered from AliExpress Lilygo store 2 boards and it took 2.5 weeks to arrive (not bad at all). After connecting the OLED, one board worked immediately as did the BLE firmware update (@geeksville awesome work, thank you) while the board seems to have … slow/flaky BLE connection — so plugged into the USB port to the update to get it going.
Waiting on the Lilygo folks to assist with what might be a defective board?
Going to start another thread to ask some questions =)