On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 17:01 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Bill Gatliff <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > I think it must be possible to buy an android motherboard for just a > >> > fraction of the price that i paid for my tablet. > > only if you're prepared to place a cash up-front order for a large > number of units, because you're dealing "direct" with the factory. > the exceptions to that, that i know of, will be companies like the one > i'm dealing with (because they trust me), and franson who runs > quickembed would almost certainly be happy to sell you an > off-the-shelf motherboard from something he's designed (or licensed) > already.
What is needed for the FreedomBox is hardware that is already used by a major brand. This hardware can be more trusted with regard of quality and availability. It is not needed to place orders before testing. We can just get the motherboard from a device that we buy. If things go well, then we can contact the manufacturer. I don't think we should try to specify our own hardware. Too risky for me. We should liberate existing hardware from the android :-) Regards, Rob van der Hoeven http://freedomboxblog.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
