Thread: Who is going to make a geek phone?
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2011-06-23 , 23:15
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Originally Posted by anthonie View Post
Just hypothetically, how many units may a manufacturer expect to sell if he would decide to make a true geeks phone? And, being a geeks phone, I'd say it doesn't need more than an online store, right?
Why argue over keyboard, no keyboard, resistive, capacitive...
We've all seen that they make alternative versions in the prototype phase... Why not keep a few alternative version available on nokia.com. It's not like Nokia has a history of shying away from model fragmentation.

Why not just open up a few alternatives on a select design, i.e. like the existing E7:



Heck, they could even make the System radio button into a multi select, make geeks pay extra for multiboot. And the keyboard could be detachable, the stylus hole plugable, so they didn't have to have different hardware versions of the casing.
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