Thread: Price of N900 Crazy or just me?
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2009-08-29 , 15:22
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Originally Posted by ColonelKilkenny View Post
It's totally stupid to compare laptop prices and phone prices. Apples and oranges.
And btw. your N810 doesn't have e.g. a 5MP Carl Zeiss camera.
5MP lenses, OMAP3 processors instead of OMAP2... components that costs a few dollars, do they really justify a $300+ price hike?

Originally Posted by ColonelKilkenny View Post
It's totally stupid to compare laptop prices and phone prices. Apples and oranges.
Not when Nokia are marketing the N900 the way they are...

Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
I guess you could make Maemo run on a sub-$100 device, too. That would be no N900, though. The question is who would want to own such a device ? Crappy hardware is crapy hardware, no matter how many shiny shoe-OS-polish you apply.
Android on a sub-$100 phone - if it does pretty much everything the N900 does, how is it that different to the N900? Android is advancing in leaps and bounds, it has widespread device manufacturer support, and ARM-based CPUs are not expensive and becoming more powerful... once a low-price Android device hits the market it will become more difficult for Nokia to get away with charging N-series-type prices.

But why do you equate low-price with "crapy hardware" - because you've become so accustomed to being ripped of at the high end? The iPhone 3GS has a bill of materials totalling $175. Work it out.
Last edited by Milhouse; 2009-08-29 at 15:24.