Thread: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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2014-01-15 , 13:42
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Originally Posted by ShadowOfScales View Post
The current asking price for it, if you are going to keep using hardware that was outdated even when this project was in conceptual stages, I believe is not fair.
Yes, it is expensive, yes, it is outdated. But I fail to see how the price can be "not fair" when we're at almost zero profit levels.

Building and producing hardware in such small quantities is always expensive and there's no way to overcome it other than building more devices.

Originally Posted by ShadowOfScales View Post
As said, I don't mean to criticize the amazing work you people have done, I just don't feel that, in it's current state, it's worth the asked price, when the hardware was outdated in 2011.
If it's not worth the price for you, then ok - it's after all your choice of priorities Just be aware that similar project with up-to-date specs would cost probably even more that twice as much as this one. And getting some newer components in small quantities may be even not possible at all - so to make such project possible at all you would need few zeros more on preorder counter. And with few zeros more, Neo900 would actually cost around 100-200 EUR I guess.

Originally Posted by ShadowOfScales View Post
Edit: Please correct me if any of this information is incorrect, I don't mean to offend anyone through this, and have seen quite volatile and elitist replies, that do not consider other people can have different opinions, in the past.
It's not really the matter of opinion. We just can't lower the prices without paying for the devices from our own pockets. The only way to do that is to build more devices, and for that we need more preorders. The more preorders we get, the cheaper the final device will be for everyone.

The price estimations are based on how much it costs to build one device, not how much we would like to be paid for one. Please keep that in mind. I guess there will be some small profit margin added to the price to keep things like http://projects.goldelico.com/p/open...PaidDeveloper/ running. Compare that to the premium price of Apple devices :P
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