When will you update the Production Status, steve?

[Alexander Frøyseth]

So how long do I have to wait to buy it after MP has started?
Is it days? weeks?
steve skrev:
> I'm trying to clarify that now. Yeild is good there will not be another
> cycle. Test throughput, how long it takes to test the phone is being
> improved. One production starts we will just build continuously, The build
> process is very fast. The test on the back end, lets say to catch the 2%
> of failure is the gating item, but that can be parallelized somewhat,
> Then you have to figure the shipping. do I ship a lot per week, build two
> weeks and ship, etc. 
>
> What is your dissertation on?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Lally Singh
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:57 PM
> To: List for Openmoko community discussion
> Subject: Re: When will you update the Production Status, steve?
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> Just to clarify, what kind of time range would be needed?  A week (4
> weeks?) for production, plus another week (4 weeks) for testing?
> If testing shows problems, possibly another 6 weeks for another cycle?
>
> I don't want some sort of indirect promise on the delivery date -- I
> know it's too fuzzy.  Just some help interpreting the meaning of the
> update.
> Personally I'm already committed and don't mind having some more time
> of productivity on my dissertation before the sudden halt that will
> arrive when the phone arrives :-D
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:44 PM, steve <steve at openmoko.com> wrote:
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>> Minor correction, After we complete the test on the Pre MP, if we hit the
>>  Yeild numbers required, we start MP on the 9th at the earliest!. So, I'd
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>>  the window at May 9 to may 16th. Just to be accurate.
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>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
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>> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of steve
>>  Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:39 PM
>>  To: 'List for Openmoko community discussion'
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>> Subject: RE: When will you update the Production Status, steve?
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>>  The last Pre MP is done and mass production is slated to start on may 9.
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>>  Phones will start rolling off the lines, they will go through test, They
>>  will be shipped to distribution.
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>>  When the Phones hit the dock and are ready to ship, I'll do a press
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> release
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>>  and announce to the list and the store will open.
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>>  So you have 3 steps: build phone. test phone. ship phone.
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>>  Then we take orders. I was very adamament about having phones in the
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> disty
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>>  ready to ship before I opened the web shop.
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>>  Also, I need to update everybody on software.
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>>  Sorry for the short response, but those are the facts as I have them
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>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
>>  [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian
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> Reichel
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>>  Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:08 PM
>>  To: List for Openmoko community discussion
>>  Subject: When will you update the Production Status, steve?
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>>  Am Freitag, den 02.05.2008, 14:25 -0700 schrieb steve:
>>  Thread: RE: When begin sales the freerunner?
>>  > I will update the production status over the weekend!
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  the weekend is almost gone (actually it is already here in Germany,
>>  where it's 3:00 now), so where are the updates? :D
>>
>>  greetings from Europe,
>>
>>  Sebastian
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