Agreed but is possible and if its successfull we will be rich only those who invest I can be cfo or such but I have June and July totally free we can start this **** what would be name of the company in future my idea is technotonics or such lol

Or it just could be called xda tech ... Ya that's perfect !! I would be doing all the coding and what type of hard ware we will use if every one agrees then we can start a thread for this and money collection and ideas although the specs have mentioned in my previous post is perfect !

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Originally Posted by don2012

Agreed but is possible and if its successfull we will be rich only those who invest I can be cfo or such but I have June and July totally free we can start this **** what would be name of the company in future my idea is technotonics or such lol

Or it just could be called xda tech ... Ya that's perfect !! I would be doing all the coding and what type of hard ware we will use if every one agrees then we can start a thread for this and money collection and ideas although the specs have mentioned in my previous post is perfect !

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I've had an idea - it might not make us money (although we might be able to take a salary for our work) but it would guarantee funding and press coverage...

Why don't we try and partner with the Raspberry Pi foundation? Think about it - they mass produce small devices at an extremely low cost (so they already have the tools/robots to create PCBs), have an amazing relationship with the press (they were in every magazine/newspaper/tv news show on release date) and have very strong links with Broadcom (so we can get parts in the quantities we need).

If we take the standard RasPi board, boost up the specs (new processor, RAM &c) and add a large high-quality screen (to cover the size of the board - at least credit card size), production costs would be extremely low and we would get lots of press coverage (I can see it now - Foundation creates low-cost high-spec phone to encourage development).

The after-sales support/design would come from us lot here on XDA, whereas they put together the components. We could brand it something like the XDApi.

I'd buy it..but then again..I buy a lot of things I rarely use

So..

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So, I made a very crude mockup of the phone...


Apologies for the large size, I will that later. I particularly like the gesture pack - sweep left to go back, right to open menu/multitasking menu and hold to go home.

Originally Posted by pixdev

So, I made a very crude mockup of the phone...


Apologies for the large size, I will that later. I particularly like the gesture pack - sweep left to go back, right to open menu/multitasking menu and hold to go home.

I dont think anything would be acceptable except AOSP for an initial release. After that... mod the fuxor out of it.

Please, if this goes into engineering, let me review the final contracts and specs. I dont know of anyone who has a better grasp on device maintainability than myself.

Originally Posted by AdamOutler

XDA-Developers phone is a perfectly legal name. It's named after a community of 4,000,000+ people.

I could organize it, but taking on the financial responsiblity and marketing would be a pain in the butt!

Like I said, hosting it on Kickstarter will help to alleviate the financial problems.

The problem is that you will need a working design first. And that means that until then, everyone involved will be working on a free, voluntary basis.

Which brings us to the point... How shall the phone be priced? I'm thinking that the price should be fixed to the cost price of the first batch, which will likely be the most expensive. After that, if manufacturing costs fall (as they likely will), the profit can be shared among the people involved.

I read that it costs Samsung around US$300 to make the Galaxy SII. And that's with their economy of scale, and they themselves making some of the parts (SAMOLED+ screen and CPU). I'm guessing that for us it may be around US$450. Still an acceptable price for an open, community phone with kickass specs.

Originally Posted by AdamOutler

I dont think anything would be acceptable except AOSP for an initial release. After that... mod the fuxor out of it.

True - on-screen buttons then?

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Originally Posted by pixdev

So, I made a very crude mockup of the phone...


Apologies for the large size, I will that later. I particularly like the gesture pack - sweep left to go back, right to open menu/multitasking menu and hold to go home.

Just FYI - there is 403 when accessing your image, so probably nobody (except you) can see it...

https://img.skitch.com/20120511-cwtw...jjqyxx35wp.jpg

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