According to the cordiatab website, it has SIM card slot. Sure it may still be too big to act as a phone but its not like as if one would be walking around holding cordiatab or <insert_any_tablets_with_phone_functionality> up to their ears, would they?

Also cordia is a project, not specifically a device

(edit) Getting back to the thread topic, I'm sure there's plenty of us who would want N950, there's even a few threads discussing about N950.

The bottom line is (and I'm sure at least one other person has covered this area as well) is that Nokia N950 is not for sale to the general public even if their respective happy owners do own such a device.

There were a fair few ways one could have possibly obtained N950 but many of the ways of one obtaining the said device needs to prove that the owners can tolerate the device being faulty and will cause issues wherever it likes, etc, etc, etc. As much as I hate to say this (because I don't own a N950 myself even though I'd love to) is that Nokia chose to hand N950 on the basis of trying to avoid being mocked for yet another incomplete product (similar to N900's case as most of us would know anyway). That is what I personally believe ever since I lost my chances of obtaining one.

I am sure that the N950 wasn't scrapped was solely because of that, that it was seen as a potential developer platform for the upcoming N9 rather than to be marked as waste and be used elsewhere. Had the N900 not been so much of Nokia's blunder, the N950 would have been in the hands of public domain and we would not be receiving the crippled version of N950 that it stands now where it doesn't have microSD option, it should come with 64GB option (there were two versions of N950, the initial one had I think 32GB but the current one is only 16GB). It would also have 12MP camera not the now 8MP (as some proud N950 owners rumoured).

That said, if you look at some of the previous N950 leaks including the one from Chinese source, wouldn't you think their device specifications would be better than possibly some of the current N950 owners would have? If so, why don't you go harass them instead?

Needless to say that as of writing on this date, there's one possible final way that one maybe able to obtain N950, and that is to participate in the Meego coding competition. If you are that desperate, I surely hope you would have started coding some softwares that would meet their requirements if you want to win (and be happy with N950 if you could get one for winning the competition).
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True. But, honestly, what *would* a single unit cost? I mean, someone already figured sort of what it would take, and I'm sure there are plenty of industrious chinese with access to new parts that could do it... I'm sure there's an electronics firm that specializes in one-off and small run parts that could do it.
The only question is how much. And I'm actually very curious.

Considering that the Cordia tablet(which, admittedly, is pretty stock hardware with a couple of changes at best) is looking at being able to sell them for $300 with a 250 starting batch size... I wonder. I really do.
Figure that a tegra2 smartphone costs somewhere in the $500 range, in quantity. A slider with all the other parts, somewhere around $100. So, 5-10k for a single unit, provided it's a fairly simple "toss circuit modules together, order board, assemble" type of thing might be possible. I don't know. I'd actually like to know.


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Back to the original topic, why not buy a couple N900s, OC them to 1.15ghz. If you use a custom profile, you can do it. Install a SD card, set it up as second swap. Do transition configuration... You'll get at least as good as a N950, but without the downsides of the stupid TC bits.

when talking with big lines, the first device costs $ xxxxx and the rest of the units something like parts + $10....

yes there are electronic firms that do small proto batches but you probably can't find any in china...

There would be a market for designer phones. Like Nike shoes that you can personalize, choose different shapes and colors online. Online design and order with delivery in 1 month.....Anyone want to start a business?

Synapse had an idea somewhat similar to that. If they still exist, they still haven't found a reliable web hosting solution though.

nokia has been there and done that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5110

No you won't. 256Mb RAM is showstopper :-(

Honestly, not really. Doing some swap tweaks(along with OC) makes it not really noticible - I run out of CPU capacity before I run out of ram, unless I'm messing with crap like desktop apps via EasyDebian, and even then.
256mb of ram can be plenty... you just have to tweak the settings. Seriously.

And if tweaked right, it can still be perfectly responsive with most of the ram filled and it swapping!
I... just don't see the problem. For me, battery life(and no second core) is a far worse problem than the lack of extra ram.

damn u all got smart about my request...

anyways... thanx to this topic i got me self n950... so it was worth after all =D

If you actually did so, please open up the terminal, type "uname -a", enter, type your name, and take a picture.
That would prove that you actually have a N950(not a knock-off), and it was you that took the picture.
I'd be very interested to know...