I'm not saying it's impossible, I just don't see how the NRE costs (outside of the OS) can be handled by anybody sensible. Or rather, I don't see how that can be done and anybody can actually make any money out of it but producing a phone that enough people will want to buy to make it worth the effort. If people want to spend their time doing something for free that will not make them any return then I guess that's their call. I just don't know why, that's all.
As I've said in this thread, it's not just about software. A phone is a blending of Hardware and Software at a very low level. Getting all that to work together well and effectively is really really hard and takes a lot of time and the approval of third parties to agree that you can ship on their networks.
That costs a lot of time and effort and some very real upfront certification costs and typically the use of hardware that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. This isn't something a group of individuals can generally do, unless they already have access to the equipment, or are prepared to be really generous.
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Date: 2007-11-28 06:21 pm (UTC)As I've said in this thread, it's not just about software. A phone is a blending of Hardware and Software at a very low level. Getting all that to work together well and effectively is really really hard and takes a lot of time and the approval of third parties to agree that you can ship on their networks.
That costs a lot of time and effort and some very real upfront certification costs and typically the use of hardware that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. This isn't something a group of individuals can generally do, unless they already have access to the equipment, or are prepared to be really generous.