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Free N900 (KDE.News)Free N900 (KDE.News)Posted Oct 13, 2009 0:45 UTC (Tue) by davidm (subscriber, #35)Parent article: Free N900 (KDE.News)
To be accurate the pre-release units were provided on a 6 month loan, not just given away. Still it will make for interesting times around Maemo.
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Free N900 (KDE.News) Posted Oct 13, 2009 3:03 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Seems like a bit of a waste. It is not like they will be able to do anything
with those units when they are given back to the company.. they are not only preproduction units, they are used units. They'll just sit around the warehouses until they get thrown away after a few years or the engineers pick through them as playthings when they get written off. There is really no difference between giving them units for six months or just giving them away permanently in terms of cost to the company.
All in all it is a bit odd, but it is still a nice thing to do. And smart.
Lending Posted Oct 13, 2009 3:25 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
There is a difference. Giving away the phones has accounting and tax consequences. Lending them has different consequences. I predict recipients will be invited to return them if they want to, or not if they don't; or maybe to buy them at a sharply-reduced (used) price. There will be some sleight of hand that keeps them out of the warehouse.
Lending Posted Oct 15, 2009 13:10 UTC (Thu) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
I got the impression that part of the reason for this lending agreement is
that a device (including the software on it) with GSM radio in it has to be certified and given a warranty before it can be sold, and Nokia doesn't have the final version of the software ready for that yet. What we received was a development snapshot made a couple of days before the summit.
Lending Posted Oct 16, 2009 20:42 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]
> What we received was a development snapshot made a couple of days before
the summit.
Not couple of days before, according to the Maemo team blog post, it was
I guess the developers need the bleeding edge, hot and fresh. :-)
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