>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.
In all fairness to OpenMoko, I think 850 Mhz is only used by the USA and Canada, which only account for ~10% of mobile phones in the world. That's according to statistics at http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P7222 United States: 201.6m + Canada: 16.6m = 218.2m World: 2.14bn So the OpenMoko can still be used in 90% of the GSM world. Although, having said that, I feel people's pain. :-( Plus I guess you have to factor in that the number of potential OpenMoko users/developers/hackers in the USA is probably _way_ higher than 10%. :-) _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
