Fairphone
Fairphone
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A phone nobody has seen, let alone tested (prototype expected in August), for the price of a solid modern handset.
I read an article recently, a generic Android tablet costs $60 a piece in Shenzhen, China if you order a few thousand. How much does a generic handset cost wholesale then, $100? Let's conservatively say $200, i.e. €150.
This leaves them with a €200 margin, multiplied by 5000 units.
This gives us... a million Euro with the only own investment being a website.
I salute the people who came up with the idea, fair play to you.
- Ah, it's €325 not €350, my bad.shaft
- ...... no set up costs or design costs or development costs at all nope none of that. Just a website and off you go.chossy
- Also it's not a generic phone it's a phone with items reliably and sympathetically sourced.chossy
- It's a generic model, it's been developed already. Order 5K, the factory will mod the casing and stamp your logo.shaft
- and the stuff inside the phone?chossy
- They sure can get parts from non-conflict areas as they prolly already do.shaft
- Generic hardware has been well developed and is often sold as quite usable rip-offs, like: http://www.fastcardt…shaft
- Wages in Shenzhen today can match those in parts of EU and surely their purchasing power is higher.shaft
- A Foxconn worker can support a large family, a factory worker in Bulgaria or Slovakia is barely scraping.shaft