> Assume, you could get a motherboard upgrade board that fits into the > Freerunner (or Neo1973) case. Based on the TI OMAP3 SoC (OMAP3530 or > DM3730) and UMTS. > > Let me ask two questions to everybody: > * How long could you be willing to wait for it to really become > available? > * How much would you think you could afford to pay for such a board?
- re waiting: since most people change their phones after a couple of years, waiting shouldn't be an issue -- per se. more important would be to see a definite progress and sufficient informatrion about the way development takes (including delays, glitches and so on). seeing how nokia neglects the maemo/n900 community, not only in terms of information about fixes, updates, and the migration to meego, i think that's definitely the wrong way. so, having a working phone right now and for the foreseeable future, i would be able to wait 2, 3 years (and if another accaptable phone comes out in the meantime, maybe even longer) - cost otoh is really difficult. what company ever will attempt to make a free phone, it will need lots of money for development (not to speak of the still valid issue of purchasing items in small numbers to high prices). seeing, that i spend 300 on the fr and 500 on the n900 (two years later), i guess, that's the range -- but then again, the fr's casing is not really up-to-date and most likely the retro-trend will not discover the 2000s in the near future ;-). what i like in the n900 is the big screen or rather the screen-to-surface-ratio and missing bezel, and the slide-out keyboard (not the keyboard layout, though), which would enable me to use the consoles w/o X, if maemo would allow that ... _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
