there will be no gap, there will be a spacer frame of some kind, basically extending the lower plastic shell a bit. (sorry for the extremely poor quality of my photoshopped fake which I attached) The decision to go this way for mechanical design been based on feasibility, not economics. Unless you'd consider 10 times the price still something in the range of what you all would be willing to pay - since that might be the result from trying to fit LTE into N900 case without spacer frame, at least for this batch quantity we're talking about here. Make that batch 20 or 30 times as much as we hope to reach now and I'll get that stuff into the N900 case for you (since then we can go for a chipset instead of a - larger - module for modem)

The thread is 177 pages despite the "inconvenient interface" - I don't think any other interface would have resulted in a shorter thread unless we had made it impossible to post to it. Now if that is what you ask for when you say "well designed web frontend" ?
Please check if http://talk.maemo.org/printthread.php?t=91142&pp=40 more pleases your preferences, at least it's only 45 pages there

cheers
jOERG