<p dir="ltr">What about the emmc module? Will that module be removable? Or instead a built in emmc, wouldn't be a better choice to add a SD card slot? It would be really great to experiment with operating systems without the risk of corrupting the emmc.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best regards,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Liviu</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 11, 2015 10:37 AM, "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <<a href="mailto:hns@goldelico.com">hns@goldelico.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
you may wonder what is going on with this project. Did it turn into a black hole? Or<br>
did someone do a “rm -rf /“ :)<br>
<br>
No, nothing of that. Therefore, I think we owe you some short status update on this project.<br>
<br>
There hasn’t been much to report in the last months, but now we have several news<br>
within some days.<br>
<br>
1. I have checked again and we can still get the GTM601W, but the distributor says<br>
the risk is high that OPTION declares EOL any time and in that case we would have<br>
to make an order of at least 3000 units so that they restart production just for us.<br>
<br>
This means we must secure these modules for us now, since there is no replacement<br>
that easily fits into the space constraints of the GTA04 (resp. GTA01/02 board).<br>
<br>
Cinterion modules would be nice since they are planned for the Pyra and the Neo900,<br>
but they are approx. 10% too big.<br>
<br>
2. we see some difficulties in getting the W2SG0084 GPS module, but that is some<br>
paperwork the distributor has to do with Wi2Wi.<br>
<br>
Nevertheless, this is also a risk candidate for EOL because only one distributor shows<br>
stock.<br>
<br>
3. There are also good news:<br>
we participate in the risk buy of Samsung 1GB RAM+512MB NAND chips (as<br>
planned for the Neo900). So the GAT04A5 gets twice as much RAM :)<br>
<br>
This chip has already been tested by reworking a BeagleBoard XM and modifying<br>
the boot loader (kernel didn’t find the NAND yet, but U-Boot did. This is a problem<br>
that will jointly be fixed with the Neo900 software team).<br>
<br>
4. Production: we still are a little away from the quorum of 100 preorders (at the<br>
moment of this writing we have estimated approx. half = 45 units). So it is still<br>
not possible to make final decisions about production dates and final pricing.<br>
<br>
So we need to get a little more support for our project. If you have ideas, please<br>
let us know or start activities. Many small activities are as good as a big one!<br>
And we know that this is a niche product that requires an existing GTA01/02<br>
device. So it is not possible to “attract the masses”. We must find and convince<br>
the previous GTA01/02 owners whose devices are collecting dust. There had been<br>
produced ca. 15k such devices so that we just need another 1/3% or in other<br>
words only 1 out of 300 GTA02 owners needs to decide for a GTA04A5.<br>
<br>
5. Regarding the risk buy of the GTM601W, RAM chips and W2SG0084, I plan to<br>
take the budget (~5100 EUR) that we already have collected.<br>
<br>
This will transform the vouchers into ownership of components. So it has the<br>
consequence that we can’t refund in money (cash, bank transfer) any more, but<br>
only in unused hardware components (i.e. 100 EUR ~ 1*GTM601+1*RAM+1*GPS)…<br>
<br>
For future preorder vouchers you would also buy such a component set (which we<br>
would keep in safe warehouse of course) until we can really build the whole devices.<br>
<br>
<br>
So quite some news and I would be happy if we can fill up the missing preorders [1]<br>
sooner than later so that we can start production. Please think about securing your<br>
set of components for the last production batch of the most open smartphone platform<br>
that we already have.<br>
<br>
BR and thanks for continued support,<br>
Nikolaus Schaller<br>
<br>
[1]: <a href="http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04A5" target="_blank">http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04A5</a><br>
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