I ain't no expert on this, but since iPad is being a succesful "mobil device", we could give a chance for a BIGGER Freerunner. Of course iPad won't sell as many pices as the iPhone has, but 400k seems good for a start. There's a huge market for the big touchscreen devices.
What about trying to do some changes here and there to put a bigger screen (and a much bigger battery) on it. Most common linux apps would fit on that. Debian works great on the FR right know, and a bigger screen might be a killer spec 'couse almost every app would run with no changes needed. As I said, I ain't no expert, but you take glamo off, fix #1024, get a bigger screen and battery and leave everithing else as it is and you have a tremendous chance of succes. I would just add stereo speakers :p as in Neo 1973 AFAIK tangogps is THE killer app on the Freerunner, and it would be great to have a bigger screen for a gps device. It could even fit as a co-pilot for the car, as gps, phone, music, movies & news player. It won't fit on the bike, but I would have his little brother for that. :) We might face the 3g problem, but AFAIR just one of the 3 iPad models includes 3g, so it is not a most. Not even for GTA03 nor GTA02-Core I guess a bigger device is easier to build BTW. Just a thought. Kosa - Un mundo mejor es posible - Werner Almesberger escribió: > Carsten Haitzler wrote: >> if it's hard to communicate - you don't have a sales point. > > Yup, that's why I wouldn't belabour that angle for now. Whether and > when the time for selling on open software alone will come depends > on how constrained people feel with the non-open choices, and how > many indirect benefits they get. > > For now, I'll be happy with the niche of project customers who need > to tweak the hardware or who already understand why they cannot > afford a closed system. > > That said, such a phone wouldn't have to be free from appeal to the > mass market. It should definitely be as attractive as possible, but > within reason. > >> sure - but it seems those project customers want to feed off a stable supply >> line > > Stability is indeed crucial. I hope to be able to compensate with > flexibility what we lack in sheer momentum. E.g., if you get, say, > Motorola to make a design for you, and then Motorola decides to > shut down or sell off that business unit, then you're left with > pretty much nothing, no matter what your contracts say. > > With an open design, no mattern what happens with the makers of it, > you still have the design - down to the last detail - and most of > the information needed to produce it. You may still fail to recover > from a breakdown in your supply, but your chances are vastly better. > > Also, since the supply is likely to be spread over multiple > companies and individuals (who, in the Open world, enjoy a great > deal of mobility) catastrophic failures that wipe out everything > are less likely. > > Now, it remains to be seen whether prospective project customers > will agree with these arguments or whether they prefer to stick > with the traditional view and try to partner with companies that > are too big to fail. > > In terms of numbers, I think cost levels out pretty well already > at only a few kunits. If you're competing on the last 5%, you're > already in the wrong game. > >> i know that to you, or to many >> freedom advocates all this "fancy eyecandy, sexy design, high end components >> etc." seems all irrelevant > > Heh, yet here I am, still using my sleek little Samsung X-830 as > my daily phone, while keeping the ugly pucks in the lab :) > > The thing with bleeding edge components is that they cost you a > lot (in various ways) at very little gain. Yes, you may get that > extra push for today's fashionable effect, but by the time you > hit the market, fashion will have changed. Better find your own > style that doesn't come from the manuals of the Gigahertz war :-) > > - Werner > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community