It’s a community effort to bring back a disappearing form factor.
As for how much it’ll cost, Bryant has been preparing the community for what could be an $850 price tag, even though a phone from an established manufacturer with similar specs and a more standard form factor would be closer to $650-700. That price isn’t final — Bryant says it’ll depend on a lot of factors, including negotiations with the manufacturer, but it’s a real possibility.
While the higher price almost certainly won’t be appealing to everyone, Bryant says “the bet is there’s enough people willing to overpay for a phone. That can get it out the door, and then we’ll move down to the market price for the phone.” He also tells me that the more people who order the phone, the less it’s likely to cost. The current math is based on 50,000 people preordering a phone.
He says there’s “definitely a possibility” they’ll have to get a custom display made for the phone. “Screen building is a well-known process, but you have to go through and kind of create the dies and masks for doing the lithography on them, and those are quite expensive.
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