Yeah i think $690 would really push me out of the market, sadly. I wonder if it would push the Pandora out of viability too. Happy to be wrong, but I can just see people settling for their smartphones. $690 would quite comfortably cover a year on a smartphone with all the network and call related perks alongside it. I think the price was attractive enough before to draw peoples attention and get people on board but between the cheaper foreign gaming devices, corporate handhelds and smartphones, I see less and less room for what will essentially be seen as a vanity device at that price. Still, as is evident above there are still people interested, so I could be wrong and I would be very happy to be wrong as this is a great community and it would be a shame to see it implode.
I just don't know how we can compete then if that is the case, we cannot keep selling the Pandora at cost or near cost.
The prices you see for smart phones without contract is with them making *millions* of units.
We're making thousands as well as putting complete computer and gaming controls on board too.
This just cannot be done at the $500 price point. I don't know what else to say.
Try to consider the software is free and you're getting something totally different to smart phones, you're part of something else.
We're open to suggestions about how we can make more money and sell the Pandora at a lower cost.
I still don't think $600 is a lot of money for what the Pandora is, it's a unique machine, and we're trying to make it more powerful.