Salve Oleg! Oleg L. Sverdlov schrieb am Sonntag, den 04. Februar 2007 um 23:36h:
> All this is good. > a) how the company (FIC) is supposed to make a profit by manufacturing > less phones? Who is saying that FIC should produce less phones ;) When FIC is producing phones which are usable 2-5 longer than the other phones on the market, than this is a good argument to choce a phone from FIC. Don't forget that FIC steps new into a quite closed market. > b) let's say my phone will last 10 years . How can I be sure that my > cellular provider will use the same technology for many years (with only > software upgrades required)? You cant upgrade to UMTS, but for phoning with GSM it should be "good enough". When the GSM chip would be on a small module, even network technologie would be upgradable. > There are companies that create sell refurbished phones to 3rd world > countries for cheap, so the situation is not grim enough. AFAIK less then 2% of the mobils are going to recycled. My 12 years old hp48 calculator is still very usefull, so I don't find any reason (from the consumer view) why a live cycle of a smartphone couldn't be 10 years as well. Not the hardware was the limiting factor on the phones of the last years - the software was it. Greetings, rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community