Thread: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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svalavuo is offline svalavuo
2013-09-27 , 08:06
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#604
Originally Posted by wolke View Post
svalavuo, the point is that delivering a phone with ubuntu edge specs at $800 requires selling $32M worth of devices. similarly, you cant expect a device that will sell 200 units to compete price-per-spec with any multi-million-selling hardware manufacturer.

also, you are about the 95th person to recommend that they have a kickstarter.
There's already over 400 voters (potential buyers).
I know this $32M limit and that they didn't reach it.

That wasn't my point. My point was that it's quite hard to justify 700 Eur pricetag for "outdated" phone. Ok, the price without casing would be cheaper, but how much? What would be price for just the board?

Don't get me wrong here! I love my N900 and I'm quite fond of maemo too. I was able to do about everything with that. Much more than with my N9. Now I have three phones to play with (N900, N9 and S4) and I'd still use my N900 if it would stay connected to network. That's why I'm following this Neo900 project. I could take my best phone to use again and give my S4 to my wife, so she could get rid of that Lumia 820. :-)
 

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