On Thursday, August 22, 2013 08:21:51 Laszlo Papp wrote: > One problem here is that we cannot try that on the real device until we > have one. In my experience the last few years in the (kde) mobile field, > people are not that interested in such things when they do not have > gadgets.
yep; the number of people who will buy and flash a device on their own is unfortunately small. but i totally understand. fwiw, after ~9 months working on the custom hardware for the Vivaldi tablet, casework finally got completed (we had 3 false starts in which a prototype run showed problems not caught on the CAD files; very, very frustrating stuff ..) the completed prototype casework is off for final tooling (and i’m now facing a decision of which of two materials to use for the back; dual injection mould plastic or something a bit fancier .. the fancier option wasn’t available to us a few months back, but the factory can now do either and they need to work up their final quote (everything is “JIT” there) so we’re getting a quote on both) but that means we’ll soon have a trial run of a thousand devices some of which will go off for CE/FCC certification and the rest of which we’ll be able to sell as an early run batch. then mainline production will crank and we’ll be in real business: as many devices as we can sell and no flashing or other humbug, just open the box and turn it on. and that will be a major hurdle cleared for getting people going with open software on open devices where you also get to keep the warranty ;) oh .. and we’ve got engineering boards coming too for those who want to play at a slightly lower level. think raspberry pi but with actual horsepower. -- Aaron J. Seigo
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