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$32 million Crowd Funding for Android/Ubuntu phone
sawakosadako:
The forum has back online after the attack. The link got more detailed information about the processors and its comparison to other phone. They said the edge would at least use 2.4GHz quad-core, any idea what they're talking about?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2164185&highlight=ubuntu+edge
kitamesume:
baytrail is only limited to 2.1Ghz, not to mention TDP @ 2.1Ghz is 8watts.
theres particularly no chance of baytrail @ 2.4Ghz to occur, nor will one fit inside a phone.
but on the other hand, ARM A57 does scale upwards to 3Ghz, so its possible for it to be as such, their target TDP at 3Ghz is 4watts so thats plausible at 2.4Ghz.
i suggest taking that image with a grain of salt.
edit:
i wonder what they meant by "optimized for photo-realistic colors and contrast" when the best IPS and AMOLED of such is already present in current handsets, not to mention full HD @ 4.7" or 5.0"
or are they telling us theres such a magical screen hidden somewhere in the market?
mgz:
--- Quote from: zherok on July 31, 2013, 01:22:47 AM ---Pace seems to have slowed down pretty considerably. $32M just seems completely outta the question at this stage for crowd-funding.
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yea pretty much what i expected its now down to a crawl. 32m isnt outta the question for crowd sourcing it is out of the question for a project like this however
halfelite:
--- Quote from: mgz on August 01, 2013, 02:13:33 AM ---
--- Quote from: zherok on July 31, 2013, 01:22:47 AM ---Pace seems to have slowed down pretty considerably. $32M just seems completely outta the question at this stage for crowd-funding.
--- End quote ---
yea pretty much what i expected its now down to a crawl. 32m isnt outta the question for crowd sourcing it is out of the question for a project like this however
--- End quote ---
I think they could hit if it they changed there pricing tiers up. ouya hit 8mill because at 99$ it was not a big deal if it never came through. If they had more 725$ options I think it would pick back up again
zherok:
Other than crowd funding efforts that have kept open indefinitely (Star Citizen for example) there aren't many that have topped the Ouya in total funding. If there's a project out there that can capture that amount of money, nothing's managed to do it yet in 30 days.
And the Ouya had a far lower production minimum than the Edge does. Plenty of projects have managed that minimum. Nothing yet has gotten even close to what the Edge requires.
I'm guessing this is far too niche, far too time sensitive (you're pre ordering a phone how far in advance?), and far too expensive to draw up what amounts to a fairly huge amount of backers for any project, nevermind one requiring a minimum of $725 to even get the product in question.
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