OpenMoko Phase 0 has started

[Harald Welte]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:40:12PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Igor Foox writes:
> >Just wanted to send a big Congratulations to the core OpenMoko team
> >for this first shipment of phones. You guys are doing a great job and  
> >even
> >with the delays the community is (or at least I am) 100% behind you!
> 
> Absolutely!
> 
> And I think I'm speaking for far too many people when I ask:  what's
> happening to the last 14 phones? :)

we have such a severe lack of [working] hardware within the project,
that we are more than happy about this unexpected additional hardware.

e.g. we're currently in the process of growing our [paid/hired] team,
and we wouldn't have hardware for them otherwise.  Also, some of them
will be used as samples for FCC/CE/... style certifications, I've been
told by the HW team.

So for example, all phase 0 users now have _later_ hardware than either
Werner, Mickey or me have - since all our boards have defunct Bluetooth.

We really made that phase 0 possible at a time where the status of
hardware availability can rarely afford it.  So _please_ don't even try
to snatch one of those phones.  It's deemed to be futile and just causes
additional overhead on our side to respond with all those "NO" mails.

Cheers,
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- Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org>          	        http://openmoko.org/
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