Yeah, I am pretty amazed at this one. Its really hard to imagine a company building a phone that didnt think through what frequencies were needed. More interestingly, that it took a trip from Michael to Taiwan to get anyone to focus on it. If this substantially sets back the development effort, it really is a major blow to the project.
Hank On 11/6/07, Jonathon Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, thanks to Michael for giving the update. It is never good to > have to be the bearer of bad news. > > However, this is huge! My probability of purchasing just dropped from > 95% to about ~5%. I'm getting ready to move and not knowing what my > coverage will be like in those areas is definitely a deal killer. I > occasionally do some international travel and also spend time in more > "rural" areas so quad-band coverage is an absolute must have (not just > something I want for the warm fuzzies). > > I'm not going to be overly critical, but how does this just slip through > the cracks? Although somewhat marginal, quad-band chipsets do cost more > than tri-band. It just seems really really weird that ensure you have > all of the functionality working would be an absolute no brainer. When > putting all of the components together for a *PHONE* you would think > that you would test, re-test, check, double-check and then triple check > the actual *PHONE* components. > > My mind is pretty much blown over this one... > > -Jonathon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jae Stutzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: List for OpenMoko community discussion > <[email protected]> > To: List for OpenMoko community discussion > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Community update: The 850 MHz issue > Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:37:15 -0600 > > Man this royally sucks for me. We only get 100% coverage because of the > 850 band where I live. 1900 is being added slowly, but not anywhere > close to full coverage. > > Anybody want a neo? I sure wish this information would have been > provided _before_ the purchase. > > Jae > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
