The COGS on this phone should be around $100-110. FIC will make money, but won't make a lot of money unless they sell a lot of them. They are leveraging their expertise, manufacturing, and if they manufacture something that doesn't sell, that is wasted manufacturing resources.
I think the business plan for them is to enable developers who want to make a better phone/PDA than the pieces of crap on the market. I had a Sony Ericcsson phone on Cingular and I could create my own ring tones and down load them. I have a RAZR on T-Mobile and they will only let me buy ringtones. This is a brain dead phone/company combo. If dev heads make a better product (a product being a solution to a customer's problem) they will sell phones. --Dan On 7/21/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 22 Jul 2007, at 01:13, Mickael Faivre-Macon wrote: > > By the way, does FIC plan to make money out of the neo ? > Like selling manuals ? Or whatever ? They'll make money on the hardware. Developing a good smartphone OS costs quite a bit of money. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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