How many product do you have build and produce in a substantial quantity
to over simplify the reality like you do ?
The first thing you need to know in the electronic component business is
that if you are not a big company that sell *million* of devices per
year, you don't ever have access to the minimal documentation needed to
uses advanced products. Unlikely selling opportunities only have access
to the "industrial" range of products that is usually one generation
old. For example Texas Instrument clearly split the OMAP products for
big OEM, and Sitara products for industrial quantity. And this example
is easy. Things get far more complicated for the 3G components (and not
only for the silicon parts).
Without those components, you can't build a handset at all. Your
suggestion is only likely to produce a technical experiment to show that
a set of interconnected modules provides similar capabilities compared
to a handset. The transition from this experiment to something you could
decently call a handset is the very hard part of the work that only big
companies can possibly archives. I will not be surprised if the
conformity testing of a such complex device excess the cost of designing it.
Building a product in any substantial quantity is not only a question of
the product itself, but many more in how you will solve all the problems
in making the logistic and the tools to manufacture the product. This is
the very hard part. If this was easy, then the market would be saturated
by a big numbers of small players. The reality is that only a few
companies can play at this level of the game.
This is why so many peoples contributing to Meego, or interesting about
it, are actually so stressed about any announcement concerning Meego
products. The community itself can do something on the software, but are
completely left out of control about the hardware. Without big companies
providing Meego hardware, there is unlikely that Meego will have any
uses in the market it was designed for.
Best Regards,
Jean-Christian de Rivaz
Le 11. 02. 11 23:46, Rudolf Streif a écrit :
What do you need to build a handset?
a) a processor board; start with the PandaBoard (dual-core OMAP4, BT,
WiFi, HDMI, and much more)
b) a wireless network radio (use your favorite search engine and search
for "GSM radio module" or similar)
c) a GPS module (same as b))
d) a display with capacitive touch (same as b))
e) a g-sensor/accelerometer (same as b))
f) engineering ingenuity
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