[Hardware Hacking General] iytrix:
To address these, agreed. The only hardware thing I myself want, is a nav bar notification strip. I will explain it if I ever get to making phones, but even though I have one idea, I plan to let customers design the luxury phones HOW THEY WANT. For the hacker and dev phones, I will allow as much support as I can to allow people to do what they want. These phones are all about you, it's just whether you want to buy the basics and go from there, or have a team I put together make the best piece of tech you've seen. The pricing I'm certain I can meet, at least, the $600 tag. I have to make deals though, get OEM partnerships, and order in BULK for the cheaper phones. Unfortunately, that means it would be hard to solidify a price until I know how many I can order. Google I see no issue with, they are an amazing company thankfully, and I know a few people there so I'm not very worried about that, the rest, will be some time of work though.

I understand the technology evolves, but I will build the phones to be as modular as possible. The main parts would be the board and the screen. So if you damage the screen, or a new tech comes out, we can replace it. Honestly, I still think a dual core 1.5ghz phone is better than a quad core because of the battery consumption, but we would change that out as desired (you'd pay for upgrades of course) but the reason for this is that you can keep your nice case, I don't expect a titanium case to because unusable in 2-5 years, and that would be a huge part of the price tag. So keeping a luxury phone could possibly end up saving you money if you take good care of it, but that's up to the user and their lifestyle.

Unfortunately I don't have much of a background. Mostly just contacts, ideas, and passion to do a business right. Unfortunately, I am not much about making money, which makes things harder for partners and investors. My main goal here is to get the peoples phones to the people for a good price, and the secondarily, making the highest quality, and longest lasting phones on the market, and also be the first phone that you can customize how the whole phone looks and works with the designers, for a fee of course. I would like the high price of the luxury phones to offset the low price of the basic phones.

Though, yes, I do need, and would like partners. Right now I'm looking into

-metalwork

-graphic design

-coding

-engineer (or someone good with hardware)

For the entry level phones I was even looking into possibly 3d printing the shells for the phones. I would need metalwork to do the luxury phones though, as well as a coder and graphic design artists to customize the customers Android OS to look like they want, and also work with any buttons or crazy addons they put on their phone. I would also like someone who can be clever with our hardware. The more custom we can get with it, the more options we have, and the better we can push a product. I do realize though that depending on who or what I can get, I may have to settle for a basic board all ready to go, and putting a case and screen on it. I would not like to do that, but the limit is only physically what I am able to do. I planned to basically manage everything and help with design, customer interaction, and dealing with the community. The only person I have so far is a contact number for a metalworker I will try and contact, and I KNOW someone who could code Android from the ground up, but I haven't the slighest idea if he would actually start in this business with me.

If you have interest or partnership ideas, feel free to PM me, but this is a fledgling product, and I wanted a community reaction first.

Thank you, I will check this out! I would like "my" community to be XDA hopefully, since so many devs here already do things for android, and I think people would like completely open phones to try and do what they want with them, without the restrictions the big companies put in place like locking everything down.