Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux/Standards-friendly mobile phone

[Stroller]

On 19 May 2008, at 20:58, Stroller wrote:
> On 19 May 2008, at 19:29, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> ... I know
>> OpenMoko and Android are pretty much not available to the masses
>> at this
>> point.
>
> I think that's a little debatable. The OpenMoko Freerunner is in
> production this week, and will surely be shipping this month. The
> final prototype completed testing - including all the production-
> line testing - a week or two ago.

Correction:

   On 19 May 2008, at 21:02, steve@××××××××.com wrote:

   The factory made us do one more Pre MP run to maximize yield.
   basically you build a XyZ phones. you test them, Xy%  pass the test,
   and the factory says.  "good. can you reduce the test time and
   decrease the false negatives on the test software, because that bad
   phone really was good." arrg.

   Talked to sean this AM and everything looks good.

   <http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-May/017520.html>

I presume "Pre MP" stands for pre Mass-Production. The design has  
been absolutely finalised and there are community members out there  
(i.e. not employees of Openmoko) with the final version of the phone  
in their hands - about 100 were built for the previous stage of  
testing. These are identical to the production version of the phone  
(except, perhaps, for the change of one resistor).

Basically, the current stage of testing involves running the actual  
final production design down the actual production line and having  
the production-line workers put them together. You can imagine that  
production will start very shortly.

Stroller.
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