Robin Paulson wrote:
damn gmail reply issues.....posted agian with correct address
On 5/16/07, polz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 18:26:57 Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
> Most all the parts are now at the factory. The May 10th run has been
> delayed about two weeks because of last minute supply coordination
> issues. But I'm still being told that we're on to have devices this
> month.
At least to me, the neo1973 is looking more and more like vapourware, an
experiment in marketing, whose purpose is to:
1.) estimate the size of the potential market for OpenMoko devices
2.) see how long the hype will last.
Can anyone here suggest an HTC phone which can be bought in Europe for
less
than $400 and can run linux well enough to dial out and somehow
connect to a
PC ?
wow, steady on. it's only been a few months, it's not as if this is
duke nukem forever....
this is new ground, there are very few (if any?) phones that have the
capabilities/openness that OM will have. the qtopia greenphone is
closest and that costs way more, nearly $700, i'm sure with other
drawbacks - i don't think it's as open or has as capable hardware
we can't expect a small company like fic to get products to market
anywhere near as quickly as say nokia or sony, and they have to be
FIC is not a small company. http://www.fic.com.tw/about.htm Over 5000
employees isn't small.
Smaller than Nokia/Sony, sure. But they are well over 20 times the size
of Trolltech, who launched the greenphone.
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