OM future

[Marcus Bauer]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:14:39 -0500
"Iain B. Findleton" <ifindleton at videotron.ca> wrote:

> Does anybody out there know what the financial envelope for, say, a
> run of 100 Neos with the accumulated hardware improvements, g3, and
> double the memory would be? I am thinking a custom application here...

if you do considerable changes to the hardware -and adding 3g is
considerable- you need to recertify it (FCC, CE etc.). you should have
roughly 1.000.000$ loose change in your pockets.

unless your customer is rms, you might consider other options...

marcus 


> 
> I also suspect that a faster processor and support for higher capacity
> SD cards could be nice.
> 
> Gerald A wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Radek Polak <psonek2 at seznam.cz
> > <mailto:psonek2 at seznam.cz>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Tuesday 23 February 2010 10:05:31 Mike Crash wrote:
> >
> >     > We can create a phone as a next step in the future, but not
> >     > now.
> >     This is a
> >     > very bad idea.
> >
> >     I cant agree. I have N770 which is great PDA. If Neo was just
> > PDA i would
> >     never bought it.
> >
> >
> > I agree 100%. I have a few different Palms, which were much cheaper
> > then the Neo. It was the vision that inspired me, and I'm sure will
> > inspire others.
> >  
> >
> >     Neo is very nice piece of hardware. But the hardware needs some
> >     fixes. I think
> >     gta-core project does exactly what is needed. If it had better
> >     case and design
> >     (or you could choose from alternative cases - e.g. white color
> > for girls and
> >     women) and if it was cheap, it could be quite successful phone.
> >
> >
> > While I agree that aesthetics are a factor, at this point the
> > community should focus on
> > making something sustainable. If the stuff under the hood is good,
> > we'll attract case
> > mods, and they can put cool cases around our good hardware. 
> >
> > I also think gta-core is on the right track. It just needs to keep
> > moving forward, and
> > we'll eventually be successful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gerald.
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