Thread: Sad news; Nokia apparently killed Meltemi
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2012-06-15 , 22:39
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Originally Posted by ajalkane View Post
The practical problems IMO are:

1) New hardware. This will require investment that's hard to get by only community like this.
2) Patents. You need to be one of the big boys to get in to the game at this point.

I'd love for this to be possible, but I'm afraid it requires some serious financial backing to be realistic. On the other hand, I'm just a layman without any real knowledge. This is just my impression.
That's what I thought. The idea that a bunch of guys would cook up a phone in their garage was just laughable to me. But I was wrong. The gta04 guys did it. They have no patent portfolio to protect themselves with, no money for things like FCC certification, no hope of getting the latest-and-greatest components, but by golly they made their own phone, and God bless 'um for having the nerve to do that. Golden Delicious might go out of business tomorrow, but you can be darn sure they won't abandon us to produce WP or Android phones.