<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Shakthi,</blockquote><div><br>I have been using GTA01 (Neo 1973) my main phone for some time and felt that at its price point (under INR 12000 for GSM and GPS and VGA display) it would make a great phone for the Indian market. Unfortunately with its power draining problems (I carry 2 spare batteries in my pocket) it can not be mass produced (My initial email to Micheal was about reselling the GTA01 in India). <br>
<br>Anyway the good part is that the Openmoko and Qtopia software is GPL and porting these to a GSM only hardware should be considerably easier than writing a new GSM stack! We have plans get it to run on the CompuLab X270em board but thats kind of stalled at the moment. If that works out one can bring out GSM only, GSM+GPS, GSM+WiFi and GSM+GPS+WiFi versions of a phone running Openmoko.<br>
<br>Maybe after the success of the Freerunner (I am quite confident on that as I have seen the software really improving over the last 6 months and the price point is pretty decent too) Openmoko themselves may consider bringing out a lower spec cheaper version.<br>
<br>Right now I think it would be best to support the Openmoko endevour and try and make the Freerunner a great success, both at the market and as a philosphy.<br><br>Rakshat<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Shakthi Kannan" <<a href="mailto:shakthimaan@gmail.com">shakthimaan@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "List for Openmoko community discussion" <<a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</a>><br>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:53:15 +0530<br>Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko<br>Hi,<br>
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--- On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Harry Tsai <<a href="mailto:harry@openmoko.com">harry@openmoko.com</a>> wrote:<br>
| I am so glad to introduce Mr.Rakshat to you all, actually they are our<br>
| first partner in India market, if you are developer come from India that you<br>
| can buy Freerunner from him directly for reduce your shipping cot and<br>
| customs process effort.<br>
\--<br>
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I would like to thank you guys for this initiative. It greatly eases<br>
our shipping+customs+tax import issues. Yes, I have made my order :)<br>
<br>
I just have one request. If you guys can strip the current model to<br>
just have 1. a GSM (say INR 5k, or USD 125) , or 2. a model with<br>
GSM+GPS (with a reduced price, of course), it will be extremely useful<br>
for the "mass" market in India. I would assume the GSM takes<br>
one-fourth of the total price of the product. Not sure what is the<br>
proportion of the GPS component.<br>
<br>
INR 20k (with four RF components) is quite affordable to most people<br>
working in the Industry here in India, but, a basic, customizable<br>
phone would be really something that will be usable, and affordable<br>
for the "masses".<br>
<br>
Just my thoughts,<br>
<br>
SK<br>
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Shakthi Kannan<br>
<a href="http://www.shakthimaan.com" target="_blank">http://www.shakthimaan.com</a><br>
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