Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko

Tue May 6 13:18:54 CEST 2008

Am Di  6. Mai 2008 schrieb Lally Singh:
> I didn't think Skype ran on the openmoko stack.  Please, pretty
> please, tell me that I'm wrong :-D

Nope, right! So forget about skype, use plain SIP!
/j

> 
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Ganesha Krishna
> <ganesh.krishna at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >     First off, my 'thank you' s are due..
> >     1. To Rakshat for setting up the Indian distribution. You obviously 
have
> > the know how of open device and open source which is great. This shop has
> > greatly relieved my anxiety of shipping and customs which tends to become 
a
> > hassle.
> >     2. To Harry, for the official announcement on Indian 
distribution.Always
> > good to know that you are buying from the official shop.
> >
> >  On the price point:
> >          I feel 20,000 for Free runner is very decent,  (BTW I am eligible
> > for 15.4K discount so that is very very decent :-) ). Neo has a potential 
to
> > become the "office PDA phone". Conference calls to the US and other 
oversea
> > destinations are extremely common in Indian IT industry. neo +wifi+skype =
> > ridiculously reduced cost.
> >
> >   A GSM +GPS (GTA01 like ) box would be great for the rural India if 
priced
> > around 10,000. Imagine a post man plotting the shortest path to cover all
> > the villages that he has to deliver mail to
> > (
> > 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/south_asia_indian_postman/html/1.stm
> > ) with the right features the government might want to buy the neo for 
them.
> >        A VGA screen with GPRS means the farmer can consult the market 
price
> > of his crops, and the wealthy ones can lookup Stock market. (Oh, yes.
> > Commodity trading and stock trading are huge in my native village!! but
> > there are only few brokerage houses that are miles away in the town 
center,
> > one needs to call them frequently to be in touch with the market. The
> > village itself has GSM+GPRS coverage)
> >
> >  Students and universities:
> >           Rakshat, have you considered talking to Universities/engineering
> > colleges. There are mind boggling number of engineering colleges in
> > Karnataka(my state) and all of them run some kind of telecommunication
> > course. a couple of neos to each college with a smartly packaged SDK and
> > presentation on getting hands on GSM experience would help you sell many
> > phones. I know I would want to work on such a device If I were a student
> > now.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -GK
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: "rakshat hooja" <rakshat at gmail.com>
> > > To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> > > Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:57:48 +0530
> > > Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with
> > Openmoko
> > >
> > >
> > > > Shakthi,
> > >
> > >
> > > 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).
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Rakshat
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > From: "Shakthi Kannan" <shakthimaan at gmail.com>
> > > > To: "List for Openmoko community discussion"
> > <community at lists.openmoko.org>
> > > > Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:53:15 +0530
> > > > Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with
> > Openmoko
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > --- On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Harry Tsai <harry at openmoko.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > | I am so glad to introduce Mr.Rakshat to you all, actually they are 
our
> > > > | first partner in India market, if you are developer come from India
> > that you
> > > > | can buy Freerunner from him directly for reduce your shipping cot 
and
> > > > | customs process effort.
> > > > \--
> > > >
> > > > I would like to thank you guys for this initiative. It greatly eases
> > > > our shipping+customs+tax import issues. Yes, I have made my order :)
> > > >
> > > > I just have one request. If you guys can strip the current model to
> > > > just have 1. a GSM (say INR 5k, or USD 125) , or 2. a model with
> > > > GSM+GPS (with a reduced price, of course), it will be extremely useful
> > > > for the "mass" market in India. I would assume the GSM takes
> > > > one-fourth of the total price of the product. Not sure what is the
> > > > proportion of the GPS component.
> > > >
> > > > INR 20k (with four RF components) is quite affordable to most people
> > > > working in the Industry here in India, but, a basic, customizable
> > > > phone would be really something that will be usable, and affordable
> > > > for the "masses".
> > > >
> > > > Just my thoughts,
> > > >
> > > > SK
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Shakthi Kannan
> > > > http://www.shakthimaan.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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> -- 
> H. Lally Singh
> Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
> Virginia Tech
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