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#901
Originally Posted by jalyst View Post
My apologies, your style of writing is confusing at times, I misunderstood what you were trying to say*, it doesn't hep that I've not had much sleep lately.

*it's still not terribly clear
I'm saying that for Neo900 price it's
a) not sufficient to know how many bare board, but you also need to know how many cases etc
b) even when you know how many camera modules, cases, batteries, GPS-antennae, GSM-antennae, AV-connectors, kbd-domesheets, flex-cables, battery-connectors, antenna-spring-connecotrs, stylii etc you will need, you usually can't find out about rebates you get when buying 500 or 1000, until you try.

That's why we can't even give good estimations for a batch of 200 yet. And getting all those quotations from sellers is weeks of work we simply can't afford right now, before fundraiser started. We did a cursory check for the most difficult to source parts, in qty of 1.

We probably can get abitrary number of refurbished N900 to slaughter, for ~150EUR, but this will require testing and full disassembly of every single one of them, which adds another 100..200EUR for labor (I'm intentionally using the Am ambiguous form here) on top. Obviously a feasible but not exactly economic alternative, and I bet you don't feel better now that you heard about it.

/j
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