Of course we will count all the already done donations exceeding 100 as participating in this campaign with the "excess".

The 100€ are for R&D, not for securing/sourcing components for a final product. Those components sum up to much more than the 100€ anyway, see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...09#post1442609. The modem alone costs in that range, luckily the modem is not one of the risk parts. The 1024MB RAM (maybe 10..15EUR/chip, not 25 like quoted in above linked post) is, though. The 512MB RAM is easily available and probably will stay to be for a few more years. RGB-LEDs for kbd backlight are somewhat troublesome to source, but we can easily go for monochromatic/white LEDs any time. Please don't turn our very-open-communication policy into an argument against the project. Every hw development needs to deal with such issues of component availability and securing, and virtually not a single product out there will promise that spare parts are available on the free market 5 or 10 years into the future. Just usually you don't get to know of it. Also note that those "risk" parts often are for feature boosts like 1GB RAM or RGB backlight which were not on the list of guaranteed features of the original device.

The original idea has been to develop and build the prototypes, test them so you know what you get when you order. Then open up the regular order page, collect the payment and source the components and build the devices, which will take around 8 weeks after payments been collected. There's been no early sourcing of huge amounts of relatively expensive risk parts in that equation, but we found parts availability to be a more troublesome issue than originally expected, for some of the parts.
About repair: we will keep sufficient parts and even completely built boards for repairs and replacements. And in 3 years we don't expect any parts to start malfunctioning since we select parts to work for much longer than 3 years.

cheers
jOERG