<div dir="ltr">For its intended market (heavy internet users) then I don't see why you would want to make it cheaper.<div><br></div><div>From what I read from your link, what you get with a BRCK, up & above a 3G Mobile phone is capability to switch over into multiple networks, this IMO, is too little a difference to justify spending the $200.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The way this could work is to make a BRCK with a lot more innovative features than an average Smartphone. From top of my head from someone who spends a few days in the bush, a few would be:</div><div>
(1) Ability to sniff the littlest of 'network' that's available. Give me 10X capability over what I can get from my Smartphone...</div>
<div>(2) Make a BRCK a mobile GSM 'Tower' so that users with GSM Phones around the BRCK can actually use its GSM Network embedded OpenBTS</div><div>(3) Make a BRCK to have a simple embedded Server that can say hold mails, both incoming & outgoing in a seamless way and then sends and receives these out at certain intervals. Would be good if it can do the same for Social Networking say FB & Twitter (Every 10 mins it pulls your Twitts, and pushes new ones you have done)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Basically, it needs to be really innovative.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Sam Gichuru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gichuru@gmail.com" target="_blank">gichuru@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:'Droid Serif',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20.453125px">BRCK’s projects head of hardware Reg Orton, said the modem is expected to retail from </span><strong style="zoom:1;border:0px;font-family:'Droid Serif',serif;font-size:14px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:20.453125px">200$</strong><span style="font-family:'Droid Serif',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20.453125px"> a unit, around</span><strong style="zoom:1;border:0px;font-family:'Droid Serif',serif;font-size:14px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:20.453125px">16,600 Kshs</strong><span style="font-family:'Droid Serif',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20.453125px">. The current modems in the country sell from around </span><strong style="zoom:1;border:0px;font-family:'Droid Serif',serif;font-size:14px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:20.453125px">2,000 Kshs. <br>
</strong><br>How can we make this cheaper and affordable.<br><br><a href="http://140friday.com/do-you-need-a-brck/" target="_blank">http://140friday.com/do-you-need-a-brck/</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Warm Regards,<br>
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