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@Nahguavkire
Tried one of these earlier. It makes absolutely no sense to me as an instrument.
It's tuned ADG/EADG so the fretless part of the neck is the same as the 3 higher strings in standard tuning followed by a standard fretted 4 string.
The fretted part of the neck was one of the nicest sounding fretless basses I've played but the layout made the fretted part of the neck really awkward, especially the E and A strings. I can't see how it would ever be a practically usable instrument.
Also had a mess about on one of the new Ibanez AZ models:
It's like a much nicer Strat, beefier neck than the Ibanez Wizard neck but finished so much better than any Fender I've ever played. There's a 22 fret version with HSS pickups which is much more traditionally Strat-like also.
In other better than Fender news I had a quick play on one of these also:
Again, super beefy neck but a really nice profile, kind of 50s strat style, almost like a 60s Les Paul neck. Finish is incredible with the exception of the tuners which have the most appallingly cheap and shitty tuner buttons I've ever felt on a guitar. I was so surprised to see them on a PRS.
Anyway there you go.