Kogan Agora: Rinviato a data da destinarsi.

E' arrivata una notizia che in realta' temavamo giungesse gia' durante il CES2008.

Una delle assenze piu' macroscopiche, specie coniderando che la data di lancio sarebbe dovuta essere prossima, era quella di un terminale Kogan Agora in prova.
In realta' ci si poteva piegare questa mancanza ipotizzando una produzione a pieno regime e l'intervista a Ruslan Kogan da noi tradotta aveva sedato i rimanenti dubbi.

Invece. Invece eccoci qui ad annunciare un ritardo a tempo indeterminato di quello che doveva essere il secondo cellulare con SO Android installato nativamente.

Ufficialmente il team di sviluppo e' preoccupato per possibili future incompatibilita' del formato schermo scelto per Agora con eventuali release future del sistema operativo. Quest significa quindi che il lavoro per ovviare a questo problema non sara' breve.
Chiunque avesse preordinato il cellulare dal loro sito verra' totalmente rimborsato completamente, anche se voci di corridoio dicono che il delay non sara' troppo lungo. Qui di seguito l'annuncio ufficiale:

Quote:

Kogan Agora to be delayed

Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, 16th January 2009 - Kogan Technologies' Agora phone will be delayed indefinitely due to potential future interoperability issues.

Kogan Technologies founder Ruslan Kogan said the phone will undergo a significant redesign in order to ensure its compatibility with all future Android applications.

"The Agora reached a very late stage of development, manufacturing had commenced and we were within days of shipping the product to customers. But it now seems certain the current Agora specifications will limit its compatibility or interoperability in the near future," Ruslan Kogan said.

"One potential issue is that developers may create applications for the Android operating system at a higher resolution and screen size than the Agora provides in its current form.

"I am sorry for this delay, but in the interests of proving the best possible product at the best possible price, I cannot disappoint my customers by supplying a product that I am aware will shortly have significant limitations.

"My priority is to release a phone that will do justice to the Kogan brand and offer great value to our customers. Since the design of the Agora, the Android community has been growing quickly, with new developers setting out their objectives to create a host of feature-rich applications. I now believe that in order to access all the Android platform has to offer, the Agora must be redesigned.

"The Kogan team is already hard at work designing a new phone that will be better suited to the needs of Android application developers and our customers."

All customers who pre-ordered the Agora will receive a full refund.

Ruslan Kogan will continue to blog about and discuss the redevelopment of the Agora at www.kogan.com.au/blog