Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2012-01-03 Thread Niels Heyvaert
-- From: r...@1407.org To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:59:33 + Subject: Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour I just posted about it in my blog and Google+ page, now forwarding it to identi.ca (which forwards it to twitter). http://blog.1407.org/2012/01/01/gta04-free-software

Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2012-01-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
I just posted about it in my blog and Google+ page, now forwarding it to identi.ca (which forwards it to twitter). http://blog.1407.org/2012/01/01/gta04-free-software-smartphone-group-buy/ https://plus.google.com/111476378907603803049/posts/5vbJyoeDSLu http://identi.ca/notice/87924177

Re: [Gta04-owner] Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-30 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2011/12/29 Neal H. Walfield n...@walfield.org: First, if someone orders a GTA04, that person doesn't get all the hardware--that person needs to have a GTA01 or GTA02 and do some non-trivial assembly.  I realize that you have some cases that you are selling, which is the route that I went, but

Re: [Gta04-owner] Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-30 Thread Martin Jansa
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:18:05PM +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote: Hi, It seems to me that there are two problems. First, if someone orders a GTA04, that person doesn't get all the hardware--that person needs to have a GTA01 or GTA02 and do some non-trivial assembly. I realize that you

Re: [Gta04-owner] Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-30 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
I just got an idea. Maybe it is not very good, but I will mention it anyway. Imagine if the GTA04 board could be available for different cases, so that people owning a HTC could free their devices Maybe this is not feasible, but could increase the marked if done right.

Re: [Gta04-owner] Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-30 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Martin, Am 30.12.2011 um 20:01 schrieb Martin Jansa: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:18:05PM +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote: Hi, It seems to me that there are two problems. First, if someone orders a GTA04, that person doesn't get all the hardware--that person needs to have a GTA01 or

Re: [Gta04-owner] Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-30 Thread Martin Jansa
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:02:44PM +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Hi Martin, Hi Nikolaus, Am 30.12.2011 um 20:01 schrieb Martin Jansa: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:18:05PM +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote: Hi, It seems to me that there are two problems. First, if someone

Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 29.12.2011 um 13:06 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Hi Ben, Am 29.12.2011 um 12:49 schrieb Ben Thompson: Hi Thank you for creating the GTA04. My problem is the early bird pricing which it seems to me requires some people pay more than others, without any real incentive or

Re: [Gta04-owner] Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Neal, Am 29.12.2011 um 12:18 schrieb Neal H. Walfield: Hi, It seems to me that there are two problems. First, if someone orders a GTA04, that person doesn't get all the hardware--that person needs to have a GTA01 or GTA02 and do some non-trivial assembly. I realize that you have

Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Sorry for the typo below :) Am 29.12.2011 um 13:14 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com: Am 29.12.2011 um 13:06 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Hi Ben, Am 29.12.2011 um 12:49 schrieb Ben Thompson: Hi Thank you for creating the GTA04. My problem is the early

Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Martix
Hi, I think, you should focus more on present and make GTA04 price available to many members of this small community as you can. GTA04 is much expensive in comparison with other OMAP3 based mobile phones today. I know, cost is based on production volumes, but ordinary hackers likes cheap

Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Davide Scaini
Just my point of view: I think the price is the problem. To be less brief I'll explain MY situation: I'm a student, I'm very interested in GTA04 because I think it's a tool that can help me in learning how to write code for embedded stuff in an open environment but I don't have a pay or some

Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Ben, Am 29.12.2011 um 12:49 schrieb Ben Thompson: Hi Thank you for creating the GTA04. My problem is the early bird pricing which it seems to me requires some people pay more than others, without any real incentive or added value in the goods received. I don't want to pay 474 euros

Re: [Gta04-owner] Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi, It seems to me that there are two problems. First, if someone orders a GTA04, that person doesn't get all the hardware--that person needs to have a GTA01 or GTA02 and do some non-trivial assembly. I realize that you have some cases that you are selling, which is the route that I went, but I

Fwd: [Gta04-owner] Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Alishams Hassam
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: snip Well, we don't have a real mass market device and I think we should not even pretend to have one, in this phase. Because we are then compared to the 100 EUR Huawei Android/UMTS units where one has to

Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi all, that status of the GTA04 mass market group tour http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%20Group%20Tour is that we have: * passed half time yesterday * first early bird batch is sold out * but still only 16% preorders (56 units) * we have approx. 6 weeks left to fill the

Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Ben Thompson
Hi Thank you for creating the GTA04. 29.12.2011, 10:50, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com: Hi all, that status of the GTA04 mass market group tour http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%20Group%20Tour is that we have: * passed half time yesterday * first early bird

Re: [Gta04-owner] Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread NeilBrown
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:50:40 +0100 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Curious about your ideas, If I were thinking about joining the group tour, I'd be waiting for confirmation from the early adopters that the device really worked as a phone. The freerunner was plagued with