[cut] > The first is: which one should we take? There are many candidates... Did you looked for "Universal mobile phone casing" - maybe this would fit in? I am pretty sure, once upon time I found something like this, produced by Chinese manufacturers.
[cut] > Finally, it might become quite tricky to design a new PCB that fits into > their cases because they > use even more special tools and components than the Openmoko design does. If > you look > inside such a device they sometimes e.g. have multiple PCBs interconnected by > Flex PCBs. > Or they have custom designed connectors, buttons, springs, screws etc. Which > is no problem > if they produce 1 million units per month. > > Sean has given us a very important learning: we should use catalog components > (e.g. DigiKey, > Farnell, Mouser, RS-Components) as good as possible. Unfortunately they don't > have a > smartphone case. But they have conector and Flex and so on, right? -- Patryk "LeadMan" Benderz Linux Registered User #377521 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
