Further details of theprocess as we ramp up production of Freerunner

Tim Shannon shannon.timothy at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 23:03:04 CET 2008


Yeah, the thought of seeing hundreds of Freerunners being thrown away
at the expense of the manufacturing process makes me cry a little.


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Carlo E. Prelz <fluido at fluido.as> wrote:
>         Subject: Further details of theprocess as we ramp up production of Freerunner
>         Date: Wed 19 Mar 08 11:55:44AM -0700
>
>
>  Quoting Michael Shiloh (michael at openmoko.org):
>
>  > The PVT runs are staggered: for example, we may build 100 phones and
>  > test them, then make a minor change and build another 100, tweak again
>  > and then perhaps build 200. Repeat until we verify that the product is
>  > ready for true mass production.
>
>  I am just curious: what do you do with these hundreds of phones that
>  come out of test runs? After all due tests are performed on them,
>  could they be offered as a sort of lottery draw to list contributors?
>  (without any warranty, at a reduced price, you name it...) Or do they
>  just throw them in the garbage bin?!?
>
>  (just hoping 8-)
>
>  Carlo
>
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