H. Nikolaus Schaller <h...@goldelico.com> wrote: > Well, with necessary funding Goldelico would be mass producing a GTA17 > this year which would beat the latest iPhones and alike in quality, > user-experience, functionality and openness.
The amount of funding I would need in order to turn my post-FCDEV3B hw ideas into reality would be far less than what you would need for what you just described. Specifically, I would only need about 2 kUSD to finish some work on FCDEV3B which needs to be finished before any follow-up FreeCalypso hw project can be started (I'll cover this part myself in a few months after I'm done with the current round of family expenses), and then another 10 kUSD to do any one of the following: Option 1: reverse-eng the PCB layout of BenQ's M32 module (historical Calypso-based) and make a FreeCalypso modem module in the same SMT form factor. Option 2: for the FreeCalypso Libre Dumbphone idea, produce a bare board with the functionality of this dumbphone, i.e., a dumbphone sans case, allowing ad hoc wooden cases and such. Option 3: produce a clone of OM's GTA02 motherboard (either verbatim or with changes like Glamo-ectomy), bare, no case, no WLAN/BT add-ons, plus new Toppoly displays from Alibaba. Whoever donates the needed 10 kUSD gets to pick which of the above 3 options is to be done. I cannot guarantee that each of the 3 can be fully done to the finish line for that 10 kUSD, but 10 kUSD is all I would need to get the ball rolling, and it would get more than 50% of the job done. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression that for your ideas you would need a lot more than 10 kUSD. M~ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community