no market - my 2 cents
Marcus Bauer
marcus.bauer at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 15:37:47 CET 2006
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 01:59 -0800, roberto previdi wrote:
> I don't think this phone will have a market before to
> have at least the connectivity, at most a camera too..
As this "no market"[1] argument has shown up so many times on the list,
have a look again at the specs and you'll see two outstanding and unique
selling points:
* VGA-display
* GPS
for a remarkably low price of 350$. The hw6515 costs twice as much and
offers only 240x320 screen and is way bulkier because it is a PDA and
not a phone in the first place.
This cool hardware is combined with the absolutely magic power of
openembedded.org and spiced up with a partnership with funambol not to
forget a dash of great developers and a quite visionary product manager.
Imho that are the ingredients for a huge success.
Last not least google is looking for hardware for their upcoming
google-phone. Just ask Sean if they (FIC) are already in talks with
them.
As to connectivity: the decision about bluetooth hasn't been made yet
and otherwise you can still connect your phone via USB. A camera may be
integrated in future models; FIY: FIC already has products with cameras.
Marcus
[1] according to the list the phone needs the following specs to be
successful on the market (cum grano salis - take it with a grain of
salt):
* camera with minimum 5 megapixels
* wifi, bluetooth
* at least 4x faster CPU
* minimum support for two SIM cards
* powered USB host mode
* plenty of FPGAs
* two 3.5mm jacks
* many more buttons
* 2 GB flash
* two cables dangling out in order to use is as oszilloscope
* some more FPGAs, more wifi, more bluetooth :)
* external SD-card slot, better: CF-card slot
all this with not more than 5mm thickness and 100g weight and 500h
stand-by or it will inevitably and miserably fail in the market ;)
Merry chrismas *<:o)
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