[Gta04-owner] Invitation to indicate interest in next batch of GTA04A5 boards

[Rainer Dorsch]

Hi Nikolaus,

Am Tuesday 26 March 2013 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
> Well, that still is 400 EUR for a device without WLAN and GPS (which most
> Androids @ 100 EUR have). The key problem is that "free and open and well
> documented" isn't worth the difference for the majority of the world
> population. Except for our small group.
> 
> Generally the component cost goes down if we can order let's say 10k...
> 
> A rough estimate is that if 1-10 units is 100%, 100 is 80% 1k is 60% 10k is
> 40% and 1 Mio is 20%. So we could expect 250 EUR for a full GTA04A5 board
> (i.e. ca. 350 EUR for a complete device) if we can produce a batch of 10k
> needing a credit line of 2.5 Mio EUR...
> 
> But I doubt that we can get 10k non-Openmoko freaks interested if we "just"
> add "free and open and well documented" to a feature-phone. We should have
> something unique and compelling that only real open source can provide
> (and not even "open" Android or Ubuntu Touch).

Derived from your numbers (and I have no doubt in them), mass production is 
really the key. Not sure if it was discussed before: Can a dual boot GTA04 be 
built Android/Replicant + QtMoko ? 

That means everybody has access to all the Android apps and people buying 
GTA04 at least do not need to worry to buy a second phone with Android to run 
a certain app. People just running Android on GTA04 help GTA04 to make use of 
economy of scale....plus they have a reasonable chance to get a device which 
sees updates for a long time.

Rainer

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Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/