Thread: Build our own device
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2016-09-05 , 16:20
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#49
Originally Posted by chenliangchen View Post
- The most importantly, who's going to pay for the upfront cost? Including all the certification etc. If on average, a device costs £200 (You really don't want another mid-low end device do you?) and quantity is 5k (ODM wouldn't really be interested to spend time and effort for quantity less than this, also considering certification etc lower the number isn't cost effective. ) So that's about 1M of upfront cost, who can pay that? And how to make sure that those device can be sold? How to prove to customers or Dave999 that this is not a scam?
If you got 500 people willing to pay upfront, I think you would be doing well...

Honestly, I think going down the hardware route is a bad idea. It nearly bankrupted Jolla twice (phone and tablet), the Neo900 project is 3 years old and still nothing, etc.

I think it would be better to take an existing piece of hardware and get a build of Sailfish that works 100% on it. I know there are lots of community ports, but they always seem to get abandoned with some key functions of the phone not working or stable.
 

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