Hi, At the time Kogan announced their mobile phone, at the end of November 2008. AUD to USD is not much difference to current exchange rate. Definitely within 10% of current exchange rate. Obviously their PR make it on purpose to get attention.
Re: Al Sutton I think you should agree with me that Kogan simply didn't make simple typo mistakes. They do it on purpose, in a way "misleading" the consumers. It is not one or two careless mistake. The entire spec they released is flawed. It is much worse than HTC G1 328Mhz phone being sold as 532Mhz. And since Kogan have not turned up here to clarify anything nor changed their spec. They are staying far from the Android community/ developers, not surprised that their spec is WRONG........And until they demo the actual product, I continue to doubt that they would be able to actually deliver it by January. Re: Muthu We still don't have ETA yet, unfortunately we missed Christmas but we are looking at Q1 2009 release. Hardware part is mostly sorted, mostly stuck at the software development, once that's software is done. We would be able to prepare for production and release complete spec and information to the public.. Regards, Eric Portable Electronics Ltd www.hdmp4.com On Dec 6, 9:05 pm, "Rich Buggy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you'll find there is a simpler explanation for the price > increase. Most international contracts are in US dollars. Six months > ago 1 Australian dollar was almost 1 US dollar. Today it takes 1.50 > Australian dollars to buy 1 US dollar. > > Rich > > -- > Rich Buggyhttp://www.buggy.id.au/ > > 2008/12/6 Steve Oldmeadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > @Eric - one of the reasons given by Kogan for the price increase was > > R&D cost blow out. Probably when he announced the $199 price he > > hadn't looked into some of these issues that had to be fixed with > > software. For example - the not installing apps to the SD card issue > > can easily be fixed, it just can't be fixed in a way that satisfies > > Google from a security and/or user experience perspective. Maybe > > Kogan doesn't have these qualms. > > > Personally I think you are underestimating the ingenuity of Chinese > > developers. I'm remaining optimistic about the Agora but understand > > where you are coming from. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
