Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko
Hi everyone, I'm a little (actually quite) late in this scene so pardon my ignorance on any goofy questions. I am a LAMP (and uhm ... Java) developer and had always wanted/waited for a dream box like this. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I came across openmoko 1 year late. But better late than never... yeah. I'll be honest when I say I came pretty close to buying an iPhone when I went to US recently but the whole Out of Stock thing drove me mad. In fact I started harboring anti-Apple feelings ($20 for s/w upgrades, overtly-closed-and-controlled UI environment etc. etc.) that I decided to stick with my iMate SP5m until something really gets to me. And here I am. So, my first few questions (and I'm thrilled to know a thread on Neo Indian retailing exists!!) - 1. Where in India can I purchase Neo FreeRunner and its related accessories once it gets released. I know Rakshat is the man here but can we get some more info on this please? Can I pre-order one (just in case it runs out of stock!) 2. Whats this talk of 15.4K discount Mr. Krishna is talking about. How can I be entitled to it as well? :D :P Thanks! Rahul J aka sector7 *Ganesha Krishna* ganesh.krishna at gmail.com community%40lists.openmoko.org?Subject=Freerunner%20Sale%20Price%20in%20India%20-%20Official%20partner%20with%20OpenmokoIn-Reply-To= *Tue May 6 11:45:30 CEST 2008* Hi, First off, my 'thank you' s are due.. 1. To Rakshat for setting up the Indian distribution. You obviously have the know how of open device and open source which is great. This shop has greatly relieved my anxiety of shipping and customs which tends to become a hassle. 2. To Harry, for the official announcement on Indian distribution.Always good to know that you are buying from the official shop. On the price point: I feel 20,000 for Free runner is very decent, (BTW I am eligible for 15.4K discount so that is very very decent :-) ). Neo has a potential to become the office PDA phone. Conference calls to the US and other oversea destinations are extremely common in Indian IT industry. neo +wifi+skype = ridiculously reduced cost. A GSM +GPS (GTA01 like ) box would be great for the rural India if priced around 10,000. Imagine a post man plotting the shortest path to cover all the villages that he has to deliver mail to ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/south_asia_indian_postman/html/1.stm ) with the right features the government might want to buy the neo for them. A VGA screen with GPRS means the farmer can consult the market price of his crops, and the wealthy ones can lookup Stock market. (Oh, yes. Commodity trading and stock trading are huge in my native village!! but there are only few brokerage houses that are miles away in the town center, one needs to call them frequently to be in touch with the market. The village itself has GSM+GPRS coverage) Students and universities: Rakshat, have you considered talking to Universities/engineering colleges. There are mind boggling number of engineering colleges in Karnataka(my state) and all of them run some kind of telecommunication course. a couple of neos to each college with a smartly packaged SDK and presentation on getting hands on GSM experience would help you sell many phones. I know I would want to work on such a device If I were a student now. Regards, -GK -- Forwarded message -- From: rakshat hooja rakshat at gmail.com To: community at lists.openmoko.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:57:48 +0530 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Shakthi, I have been using GTA01 (Neo 1973) my main phone for some time and felt that at its price point (under INR 12000 for GSM and GPS and VGA display) it would make a great phone for the Indian market. Unfortunately with its power draining problems (I carry 2 spare batteries in my pocket) it can not be mass produced (My initial email to Micheal was about reselling the GTA01 in India). Anyway the good part is that the Openmoko and Qtopia software is GPL and porting these to a GSM only hardware should be considerably easier than writing a new GSM stack! We have plans get it to run on the CompuLab X270em board but thats kind of stalled at the moment. If that works out one can bring out GSM only, GSM+GPS, GSM+WiFi and GSM+GPS+WiFi versions of a phone running Openmoko. Maybe after the success of the Freerunner (I am quite confident on that as I have seen the software really improving over the last 6 months and the price point is pretty decent too) Openmoko themselves may consider bringing out a lower spec cheaper version. Right now I think it would be best to support the Openmoko endevour and try and make the Freerunner a great success, both at the market and as a philosphy. Rakshat -- Forwarded message -- From: Shakthi Kannan
Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rahul Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 17:32:43 +0530 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Hi everyone, I'm a little (actually quite) late in this scene so pardon my ignorance on any goofy questions. I am a LAMP (and uhm ... Java) developer and had always wanted/waited for a dream box like this. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I came across openmoko 1 year late. But better late than never... yeah. Welcome, I dont think you are very late at all, there were only a few neo1973s, the first generation free phones (swathanthra phone as some one pointed out) sold in India (according to my very casual research of orkut/blog sphere ) and one had to order them directly from openmoko, no reseller. The new hardware (Freerunner) is much more juicier(sic) considering the variety in Indian phone market. I'll be honest when I say I came pretty close to buying an iPhone when I went to US recently but the whole Out of Stock thing drove me mad. In fact I started harboring anti-Apple feelings ($20 for s/w upgrades, overtly-closed-and-controlled UI environment etc. etc.) that I decided to stick with my iMate SP5m until something really gets to me. And here I am. of course, its the 'Handheld of the free and Phone of the brave'. So, my first few questions (and I'm thrilled to know a thread on Neo Indian retailing exists!!) - 1. Where in India can I purchase Neo FreeRunner and its related accessories once it gets released. I know Rakshat is the man here but can we get some more info on this please? Can I pre-order one (just in case it runs out of stock!) As far as I know (and I have followed this mailing list since its inception) Rakshat is THE Man. you can pre-order at his website. These are his mails form the archive http://openmoko.markmail.org/message/4gek2hynltrysxtw?q=rakshat http://openmoko.markmail.org/message/3ytp6yfuxoy6bwfj?q=rakshat 2. Whats this talk of 15.4K discount Mr. Krishna is talking about. How can I be entitled to it as well? :D :P The first few phones were offered for a discount, I was one of the early birds. unfortunately he has announced that all the slots are taken as of now barring last minute cancellations. Dig thru here to for the whole scoop. http://openmoko.markmail.org/search/?q=rakshat Thanks! Rahul J aka sector7 -GK ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko
Thanks a heap for this info, it'll certainly help. And its comforting to know I'm not too far behind this almost-like-a-revolution. I did get an email from THE man himself mentioning other details pertaining to purchase of FreeRunner in India. (excited!) As for the discount, well... congratulations! 15.4K is OMG!! Like they say, early bird gets the umm.. Neo! :) Rahul J On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Ganesha Krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Rahul Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 17:32:43 +0530 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Hi everyone, I'm a little (actually quite) late in this scene so pardon my ignorance on any goofy questions. I am a LAMP (and uhm ... Java) developer and had always wanted/waited for a dream box like this. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I came across openmoko 1 year late. But better late than never... yeah. Welcome, I dont think you are very late at all, there were only a few neo1973s, the first generation free phones (swathanthra phone as some one pointed out) sold in India (according to my very casual research of orkut/blog sphere ) and one had to order them directly from openmoko, no reseller. The new hardware (Freerunner) is much more juicier(sic) considering the variety in Indian phone market. I'll be honest when I say I came pretty close to buying an iPhone when I went to US recently but the whole Out of Stock thing drove me mad. In fact I started harboring anti-Apple feelings ($20 for s/w upgrades, overtly-closed-and-controlled UI environment etc. etc.) that I decided to stick with my iMate SP5m until something really gets to me. And here I am. of course, its the 'Handheld of the free and Phone of the brave'. So, my first few questions (and I'm thrilled to know a thread on Neo Indian retailing exists!!) - 1. Where in India can I purchase Neo FreeRunner and its related accessories once it gets released. I know Rakshat is the man here but can we get some more info on this please? Can I pre-order one (just in case it runs out of stock!) As far as I know (and I have followed this mailing list since its inception) Rakshat is THE Man. you can pre-order at his website. These are his mails form the archive http://openmoko.markmail.org/message/4gek2hynltrysxtw?q=rakshat http://openmoko.markmail.org/message/3ytp6yfuxoy6bwfj?q=rakshat 2. Whats this talk of 15.4K discount Mr. Krishna is talking about. How can I be entitled to it as well? :D :P The first few phones were offered for a discount, I was one of the early birds. unfortunately he has announced that all the slots are taken as of now barring last minute cancellations. Dig thru here to for the whole scoop. http://openmoko.markmail.org/search/?q=rakshat Thanks! Rahul J aka sector7 -GK ___ 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
Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko
Shakthi, I have been using GTA01 (Neo 1973) my main phone for some time and felt that at its price point (under INR 12000 for GSM and GPS and VGA display) it would make a great phone for the Indian market. Unfortunately with its power draining problems (I carry 2 spare batteries in my pocket) it can not be mass produced (My initial email to Micheal was about reselling the GTA01 in India). Anyway the good part is that the Openmoko and Qtopia software is GPL and porting these to a GSM only hardware should be considerably easier than writing a new GSM stack! We have plans get it to run on the CompuLab X270em board but thats kind of stalled at the moment. If that works out one can bring out GSM only, GSM+GPS, GSM+WiFi and GSM+GPS+WiFi versions of a phone running Openmoko. Maybe after the success of the Freerunner (I am quite confident on that as I have seen the software really improving over the last 6 months and the price point is pretty decent too) Openmoko themselves may consider bringing out a lower spec cheaper version. Right now I think it would be best to support the Openmoko endevour and try and make the Freerunner a great success, both at the market and as a philosphy. Rakshat -- Forwarded message -- From: Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:53:15 +0530 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Hi, --- On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Harry Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am so glad to introduce Mr.Rakshat to you all, actually they are our | first partner in India market, if you are developer come from India that you | can buy Freerunner from him directly for reduce your shipping cot and | customs process effort. \-- I would like to thank you guys for this initiative. It greatly eases our shipping+customs+tax import issues. Yes, I have made my order :) I just have one request. If you guys can strip the current model to just have 1. a GSM (say INR 5k, or USD 125) , or 2. a model with GSM+GPS (with a reduced price, of course), it will be extremely useful for the mass market in India. I would assume the GSM takes one-fourth of the total price of the product. Not sure what is the proportion of the GPS component. INR 20k (with four RF components) is quite affordable to most people working in the Industry here in India, but, a basic, customizable phone would be really something that will be usable, and affordable for the masses. Just my thoughts, SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko
Hi, First off, my 'thank you' s are due.. 1. To Rakshat for setting up the Indian distribution. You obviously have the know how of open device and open source which is great. This shop has greatly relieved my anxiety of shipping and customs which tends to become a hassle. 2. To Harry, for the official announcement on Indian distribution.Always good to know that you are buying from the official shop. On the price point: I feel 20,000 for Free runner is very decent, (BTW I am eligible for 15.4K discount so that is very very decent :-) ). Neo has a potential to become the office PDA phone. Conference calls to the US and other oversea destinations are extremely common in Indian IT industry. neo +wifi+skype = ridiculously reduced cost. A GSM +GPS (GTA01 like ) box would be great for the rural India if priced around 10,000. Imagine a post man plotting the shortest path to cover all the villages that he has to deliver mail to ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/south_asia_indian_postman/html/1.stm) with the right features the government might want to buy the neo for them. A VGA screen with GPRS means the farmer can consult the market price of his crops, and the wealthy ones can lookup Stock market. (Oh, yes. Commodity trading and stock trading are huge in my native village!! but there are only few brokerage houses that are miles away in the town center, one needs to call them frequently to be in touch with the market. The village itself has GSM+GPRS coverage) Students and universities: Rakshat, have you considered talking to Universities/engineering colleges. There are mind boggling number of engineering colleges in Karnataka(my state) and all of them run some kind of telecommunication course. a couple of neos to each college with a smartly packaged SDK and presentation on getting hands on GSM experience would help you sell many phones. I know I would want to work on such a device If I were a student now. Regards, -GK -- Forwarded message -- From: rakshat hooja [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:57:48 +0530 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Shakthi, I have been using GTA01 (Neo 1973) my main phone for some time and felt that at its price point (under INR 12000 for GSM and GPS and VGA display) it would make a great phone for the Indian market. Unfortunately with its power draining problems (I carry 2 spare batteries in my pocket) it can not be mass produced (My initial email to Micheal was about reselling the GTA01 in India). Anyway the good part is that the Openmoko and Qtopia software is GPL and porting these to a GSM only hardware should be considerably easier than writing a new GSM stack! We have plans get it to run on the CompuLab X270em board but thats kind of stalled at the moment. If that works out one can bring out GSM only, GSM+GPS, GSM+WiFi and GSM+GPS+WiFi versions of a phone running Openmoko. Maybe after the success of the Freerunner (I am quite confident on that as I have seen the software really improving over the last 6 months and the price point is pretty decent too) Openmoko themselves may consider bringing out a lower spec cheaper version. Right now I think it would be best to support the Openmoko endevour and try and make the Freerunner a great success, both at the market and as a philosphy. Rakshat -- Forwarded message -- From: Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:53:15 +0530 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Hi, --- On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Harry Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am so glad to introduce Mr.Rakshat to you all, actually they are our | first partner in India market, if you are developer come from India that you | can buy Freerunner from him directly for reduce your shipping cot and | customs process effort. \-- I would like to thank you guys for this initiative. It greatly eases our shipping+customs+tax import issues. Yes, I have made my order :) I just have one request. If you guys can strip the current model to just have 1. a GSM (say INR 5k, or USD 125) , or 2. a model with GSM+GPS (with a reduced price, of course), it will be extremely useful for the mass market in India. I would assume the GSM takes one-fourth of the total price of the product. Not sure what is the proportion of the GPS component. INR 20k (with four RF components) is quite affordable to most people working in the Industry here in India, but, a basic, customizable phone would be really something that will be usable, and affordable for the masses. Just my thoughts, SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com
Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko
Am Di 6. Mai 2008 schrieb Lally Singh: I didn't think Skype ran on the openmoko stack. Please, pretty please, tell me that I'm wrong :-D Nope, right! So forget about skype, use plain SIP! /j On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Ganesha Krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, First off, my 'thank you' s are due.. 1. To Rakshat for setting up the Indian distribution. You obviously have the know how of open device and open source which is great. This shop has greatly relieved my anxiety of shipping and customs which tends to become a hassle. 2. To Harry, for the official announcement on Indian distribution.Always good to know that you are buying from the official shop. On the price point: I feel 20,000 for Free runner is very decent, (BTW I am eligible for 15.4K discount so that is very very decent :-) ). Neo has a potential to become the office PDA phone. Conference calls to the US and other oversea destinations are extremely common in Indian IT industry. neo +wifi+skype = ridiculously reduced cost. A GSM +GPS (GTA01 like ) box would be great for the rural India if priced around 10,000. Imagine a post man plotting the shortest path to cover all the villages that he has to deliver mail to ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/south_asia_indian_postman/html/1.stm ) with the right features the government might want to buy the neo for them. A VGA screen with GPRS means the farmer can consult the market price of his crops, and the wealthy ones can lookup Stock market. (Oh, yes. Commodity trading and stock trading are huge in my native village!! but there are only few brokerage houses that are miles away in the town center, one needs to call them frequently to be in touch with the market. The village itself has GSM+GPRS coverage) Students and universities: Rakshat, have you considered talking to Universities/engineering colleges. There are mind boggling number of engineering colleges in Karnataka(my state) and all of them run some kind of telecommunication course. a couple of neos to each college with a smartly packaged SDK and presentation on getting hands on GSM experience would help you sell many phones. I know I would want to work on such a device If I were a student now. Regards, -GK -- Forwarded message -- From: rakshat hooja [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:57:48 +0530 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Shakthi, I have been using GTA01 (Neo 1973) my main phone for some time and felt that at its price point (under INR 12000 for GSM and GPS and VGA display) it would make a great phone for the Indian market. Unfortunately with its power draining problems (I carry 2 spare batteries in my pocket) it can not be mass produced (My initial email to Micheal was about reselling the GTA01 in India). Anyway the good part is that the Openmoko and Qtopia software is GPL and porting these to a GSM only hardware should be considerably easier than writing a new GSM stack! We have plans get it to run on the CompuLab X270em board but thats kind of stalled at the moment. If that works out one can bring out GSM only, GSM+GPS, GSM+WiFi and GSM+GPS+WiFi versions of a phone running Openmoko. Maybe after the success of the Freerunner (I am quite confident on that as I have seen the software really improving over the last 6 months and the price point is pretty decent too) Openmoko themselves may consider bringing out a lower spec cheaper version. Right now I think it would be best to support the Openmoko endevour and try and make the Freerunner a great success, both at the market and as a philosphy. Rakshat -- Forwarded message -- From: Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:53:15 +0530 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Hi, --- On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Harry Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am so glad to introduce Mr.Rakshat to you all, actually they are our | first partner in India market, if you are developer come from India that you | can buy Freerunner from him directly for reduce your shipping cot and | customs process effort. \-- I would like to thank you guys for this initiative. It greatly eases our shipping+customs+tax import issues. Yes, I have made my order :) I just have one request. If you guys can strip the current model to just have 1. a GSM (say INR 5k, or USD 125) , or 2. a model with GSM+GPS (with a reduced price, of course), it will be extremely useful for the mass market in India. I
Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko
I am 99.998 % certain that it doesn't, although it is foreseeable that it one day will, especially if the platform takes off. Since Skype is closed source it would need official developers to port it, although if somebody built the front-end and did some of the generic voip stuff for them maybe they could be convinced to just throw in the encryption for us? Hey, I can dream! On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 07:00 -0400, Lally Singh wrote: I didn't think Skype ran on the openmoko stack. Please, pretty please, tell me that I'm wrong :-D On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Ganesha Krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, First off, my 'thank you' s are due.. 1. To Rakshat for setting up the Indian distribution. You obviously have the know how of open device and open source which is great. This shop has greatly relieved my anxiety of shipping and customs which tends to become a hassle. 2. To Harry, for the official announcement on Indian distribution.Always good to know that you are buying from the official shop. On the price point: I feel 20,000 for Free runner is very decent, (BTW I am eligible for 15.4K discount so that is very very decent :-) ). Neo has a potential to become the office PDA phone. Conference calls to the US and other oversea destinations are extremely common in Indian IT industry. neo +wifi+skype = ridiculously reduced cost. A GSM +GPS (GTA01 like ) box would be great for the rural India if priced around 10,000. Imagine a post man plotting the shortest path to cover all the villages that he has to deliver mail to ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/south_asia_indian_postman/html/1.stm ) with the right features the government might want to buy the neo for them. A VGA screen with GPRS means the farmer can consult the market price of his crops, and the wealthy ones can lookup Stock market. (Oh, yes. Commodity trading and stock trading are huge in my native village!! but there are only few brokerage houses that are miles away in the town center, one needs to call them frequently to be in touch with the market. The village itself has GSM+GPRS coverage) Students and universities: Rakshat, have you considered talking to Universities/engineering colleges. There are mind boggling number of engineering colleges in Karnataka(my state) and all of them run some kind of telecommunication course. a couple of neos to each college with a smartly packaged SDK and presentation on getting hands on GSM experience would help you sell many phones. I know I would want to work on such a device If I were a student now. Regards, -GK -- Forwarded message -- From: rakshat hooja [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:57:48 +0530 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Shakthi, I have been using GTA01 (Neo 1973) my main phone for some time and felt that at its price point (under INR 12000 for GSM and GPS and VGA display) it would make a great phone for the Indian market. Unfortunately with its power draining problems (I carry 2 spare batteries in my pocket) it can not be mass produced (My initial email to Micheal was about reselling the GTA01 in India). Anyway the good part is that the Openmoko and Qtopia software is GPL and porting these to a GSM only hardware should be considerably easier than writing a new GSM stack! We have plans get it to run on the CompuLab X270em board but thats kind of stalled at the moment. If that works out one can bring out GSM only, GSM+GPS, GSM+WiFi and GSM+GPS+WiFi versions of a phone running Openmoko. Maybe after the success of the Freerunner (I am quite confident on that as I have seen the software really improving over the last 6 months and the price point is pretty decent too) Openmoko themselves may consider bringing out a lower spec cheaper version. Right now I think it would be best to support the Openmoko endevour and try and make the Freerunner a great success, both at the market and as a philosphy. Rakshat -- Forwarded message -- From: Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:53:15 +0530 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Hi, --- On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Harry Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am so glad to introduce Mr.Rakshat to you all, actually they are our | first partner in India market, if you are developer come from India that you | can buy Freerunner from him directly for reduce your shipping cot and | customs process effort. \-- I would like to thank you guys for this initiative. It greatly eases our
Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko
Lally Singh schrieb: I didn't think Skype ran on the openmoko stack. Please, pretty please, tell me that I'm wrong :-D AFAIK skype has serious issues being conformant to the principles of swatantra software[0]. ;) Skype is used for communication in IT departements? I would not trust a proprietary app using even a proprietary protocol ... Regards Robert [0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_terms_for_free_software#Non-English_terms_in_anglophone_regions signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko
-- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 19:18:54 +0800 Subject: Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko Am Di 6. Mai 2008 schrieb Lally Singh: I didn't think Skype ran on the openmoko stack. Please, pretty please, tell me that I'm wrong :-D Nope, right! So forget about skype, use plain SIP! /j What! no? well yeah, I know. All in good time I guess. (a quick search of the archive gave loads and loads of emails on every damn dohicky that can enable two people to talk). A PDA + GSM for local use that can call overseas at 'next to nothing' /min should be very very attractive to the cost conscious. -GK ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko
Dear Community, I am so glad to introduce Mr.Rakshat to you all, actually they are our first partner in India market, if you are developer come from India that you can buy Freerunner from him directly for reduce your shipping cot and customs process effort. I will update our other formal resellers to public soon. BR Harry rakshat hooja ??: Ida Systems Pvt Ltd will be reselling the Neo Freerunner in India. After careful consideration the the Retail Price in India has been fixed at Rs 2/-. This includes all taxes, shipping to your address, 30 days return and one year warranty. We are hoping to be able to ship the Freerunners to customers by end May. For more information please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are still a few slots left in our inaugural offer for the first 40 orders of [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15399/-. Please mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you would like to pre-book and avail the offer. Thanks Rakshat ___ 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
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Hi, --- On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Harry Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am so glad to introduce Mr.Rakshat to you all, actually they are our | first partner in India market, if you are developer come from India that you | can buy Freerunner from him directly for reduce your shipping cot and | customs process effort. \-- I would like to thank you guys for this initiative. It greatly eases our shipping+customs+tax import issues. Yes, I have made my order :) I just have one request. If you guys can strip the current model to just have 1. a GSM (say INR 5k, or USD 125) , or 2. a model with GSM+GPS (with a reduced price, of course), it will be extremely useful for the mass market in India. I would assume the GSM takes one-fourth of the total price of the product. Not sure what is the proportion of the GPS component. INR 20k (with four RF components) is quite affordable to most people working in the Industry here in India, but, a basic, customizable phone would be really something that will be usable, and affordable for the masses. Just my thoughts, SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
