New Oceans

Sean Moss-Pultz sean at openmoko.com
Sun Jul 1 07:48:45 CEST 2007


On Jul 1, 2007, at 1:25 AM, Pranav Desai wrote:

> On 6/30/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl at buz.ch> wrote:
>> On Saturday 30 June 2007 18:39:27 michael at michaelshiloh.com wrote:
>> > > +1 to this unbundled approach.  Also maybe add "replacement  
>> touchscreen"
>> > > as this is probably #1 part most likely to get busted?
>> >
>> > Another vote for the unbundled approach. A number of us hardware  
>> types are
>> > discussing various gadgets that would hack into the neo for CPU and
>> > connectivity. A pity to waste a whole phone (and the $$s) if the  
>> case and
>> > screen is not needed.
>>
>> +1 for both. (I think I suggested that one months ago, already ;)
>>
>
> Thats a great idea !
>
> So if the boards are sold separately, then will it be possible to use
> the GTA02 board with the phone screen and case that we are getting in
> July. That would help someone like me who dont want to buy a complete
> new phone in October, but would certainly like the wifi in the GTAv02
> board for much less than $450.

hehe...well I didn't really think of it that way. But yes, that would  
be one possible upgrade plan. I don't think we plan on making changes  
to the tooling. That's _really_ expensive. So this should work. Let  
me double check on Monday.

-Sean





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