Thread: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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2013-10-26 , 10:09
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#915
Originally Posted by byteninja2 View Post
If you din't use Crowdfunding, what are you going to use? I know your site, but how will you get it out there? You might have 600 people interested on the Neo900, which is not very much at all.
Hi byteninja2!

This is not a mass market product, it's not suitable (yet) for any "drive-by" customers who don't really get the idea and concept behind it, which is largely based on maemo5 compatibility and a community project called FPTF.
In short: we would be very happy with 600 customers, and we hope for as little as 200. Once we have a real product to show off, we can convince mass market mainstream customers and go to KS or whatever, where WYSIWYG for a working Neo900 with ported Fremantle is our best selling point. In the current state of this project we don't really want that class of customers, since we are sure we can't satisfy their expectations, and we don't even want a preorder volume in the range of several thousands since we don't even know if we could get that many N900 cases, mind you we didn't even start sourcing them.

Thanks for your dedicated contribution, and for now please help to spread the word about Neo900.

cheers
jOERG

PS: on a sidenote, KS is a nogo for us, since they don't want european 'customers'. And I don't think indiegogo is much better, and the fees are high.
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