I am a little curious to the channels that you do have access to. Being in canada, I am also curious as to if you plan to distribute the FreeRunner in Canada. On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:56 -0800, Michael Shiloh wrote: > Hello, > > A number of times you have asked about pre-orders. Here is the official > word from our VP of Marketing: > > Over the next couple of months you will see the following 3 announcements: > > 1. When the production hardware is solid and signed off, we will > announce pricing and availability. That is, we will announce the > expected price and the expected date on which the web store will open. > > 2. When the first production run is complete, we will announce that. > > 3. When the phones reach the distribution centers in Europe and USA, we > will open the web store and begin taking orders. > > > We are actively looking at pre-orders, but as discussed in the past > there are a number of very difficult complications in taking pre-orders. > We think the best solution is to build 10 times as many phones as we did > the last time, so that pre-orders will not be necessary. > > As many of you know, ramping up a factory for production is not > instantaneous. We plan to do a number of pre-production runs to iron out > manufacturing issues and to assure high yield. These pre-production runs > will occur before the official production run, so that when we make > announcements 2 and 3 above we will be highly confident in our ability > to manufacture and deliver a very large number of handsets. > > Regards, > Michael > >
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