| The same drawbacks? Let's see: * "only 256MiB RAM" - Neo900 has 4 times more.
* "no BT 4.0" - WG7351-00 has BT 4.0 support.
* "no LTE" - you can choose PLS8 modem with LTE.
* "no proper USB OTG" - Neo900 has it, plus even internal USB pins for homemade mods.
* "no gyro" - Neo900 has one.
* "no compass" - Neo900 has one. 512MB flash comes together with RAM package, and it's actually nice to have just for better Maemo/N900 compatibility. There's no reason why you couldn't boot OS from eMMC, which will for sure be at least 32GB. Actually, if you plan to tinker a lot with the phone, I'd recommend having some sort of rescue OS in flash, and your own OS of choice on the first partition of eMMC. 1080p movie may be a bit tough to play on this SoC, right. 720p however should be fine, and I hardly see the point of going 1080p with 800x480 screen. BPP and SoC are connected only via USB, audio codec and some GPIOs. It's pretty much as separated as it can be - maybe except using serial line instead of USB. "They've could went with decent hardware and still probably charge as half as much." Of course - if we could produce number of units with a bit more zeros at its end, it would be very cheap. You haven't discovered anything special here - it's just standard economy of scale. With our current scale, any "modern" design would either cost ten times more, or wouldn't be possible to build at all due to lack of available components to buy in such low amounts. |