Will OpenMoko give any consideration to those of us who purchased the
GTA01 before the tri-band issue was announced, to discount the price of
a GTA02 to give us the functionality we thought we were initially
purchasing? Like a trade-up of some sort like ATI used to do, where you
send in your old ATI video card and they'd give you a discount towards a
new one?
-id
Joachim Steiger wrote:
"Ortwin Regel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 3:22 PM >>>
It sounds like Michael was talking about GSM in general. The area not
covered by that indeed does seem negligible in the US. You have got a
different issue. From what I picked up, it is not reasonably possible
to change the hardware in a GTA01 to support the 850 Mhz band. The
best option you have is probably to sell your GTA01 and get a GTA02
that supports 850 Mhz when they become available.
Ortwin
this is correct.
due to limited resources we had to decide to rather focus on gta02 and
make 850MHz possible there instead of finding a reasonable process on
reworking gta01.
the point is that ((shipping and manhours doing it) + (the time to set
the whole logistics and process up / number of possible wanted reworks))
just gives a very unrealistic number which makes it even cheaper to
directly go to gta02-850 and sell the gta01 to somebody who can use it
in 900mhz-land.
reworking requires lots of time due to the high packaging density inside
a phone and also measuring equipment which we only have in asia.
(which generates hassle with customs, taxes, etc.. you really do not
wanna know ;)
its not only changing firmware in gsm and exchanging a few parts. it
also needs to be recalibrated.
to sum it up:
the status is that a 850mhz rework for gta01 for 'the masses' is not
possible.
please bear with us that this was not a decision taken lightly.
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