Durability of the Neo1973?

Ian Stirling openmoko at mauve.plus.com
Wed May 16 03:02:11 CEST 2007


Robin Paulson wrote:
> damn gmail reply issues.....posted agian with correct address
> 
> On 5/16/07, polz <polz at aufbix.org> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 18:26:57 Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
>>
>> > Most all the parts are now at the factory. The May 10th run has been
>> > delayed about two weeks because of last minute supply coordination
>> > issues. But I'm still being told that we're on to have devices this
>> > month.
>> At least to me, the neo1973 is looking more and more like vapourware, an
>> experiment in marketing, whose purpose is to:
>>
>> 1.) estimate the size of the potential market for OpenMoko devices
>> 2.) see how long the hype will last.
>>
>> Can anyone here suggest an HTC phone which can be bought in Europe for 
>> less
>> than $400 and can run linux well enough to dial out and somehow 
>> connect to a
>> PC ?
> 
> wow, steady on. it's only been a few months, it's not as if this is
> duke nukem forever....
> 
> this is new ground, there are very few (if any?) phones that have the
> capabilities/openness that OM will have. the qtopia greenphone is
> closest and that costs way more, nearly $700, i'm sure with other
> drawbacks - i don't think it's as open or has as capable hardware
> 
> we can't expect a small company like fic to get products to market
> anywhere near as quickly as say nokia or sony, and they have to be

FIC is not a small company.  http://www.fic.com.tw/about.htm Over 5000 
employees isn't small.

Smaller than Nokia/Sony, sure. But they are well over 20 times the size 
of Trolltech, who launched the greenphone.




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