GCW Zero - Open Source Gaming Handheld
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Interesting. So in the case of all these UK/EU resellers of China tablets - what should they be doing to make sure they're within the law? By law do they have to have paid for all these things to be tested on each device before they sell it? And what about when the China manufacturer tweaks the model by just replacing the Wifi/GPS/BT chip for a cheaper one. They'd have to pay all over again to have them tested? I wouldn't have thought the profit margin is good enough to be able to afford all that. Maybe they don't bother?
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Having sold the Dingoo, I know what you have to do 
When you import them into the EU, you are technically the manufacturer here.
Therefore, you either need to get CE Testing documents from the production company or do the test yourself. You also have to include a declaration of conformity with your sales, register it for WEEE and pay the fees for everything.
Basically, if the manufacturer hasn't done the CE testing, it will cost you about 2000 EUR just to be able to legally sell a new product within the EU.
I actually did all that with the Dingoo, additionally, I had to create and flash my own firmware without any illegal roms...
Now, with Chinese stuff, there are two issues:
Even though they might provide you with a CE test, it might be it hasn't been done properly.
If that causes issues later, YOU are the one liable for it, not the Chinese.
And once they change anything in the device, yes, you would have to redo the CE testing.
Anyways, I sent a mail to GCW that I might be interesting in sellng it two days ago, but didn't get any reply yet.
When you import them into the EU, you are technically the manufacturer here.
Therefore, you either need to get CE Testing documents from the production company or do the test yourself. You also have to include a declaration of conformity with your sales, register it for WEEE and pay the fees for everything.
Basically, if the manufacturer hasn't done the CE testing, it will cost you about 2000 EUR just to be able to legally sell a new product within the EU.
I actually did all that with the Dingoo, additionally, I had to create and flash my own firmware without any illegal roms...
Now, with Chinese stuff, there are two issues:
Even though they might provide you with a CE test, it might be it hasn't been done properly.
If that causes issues later, YOU are the one liable for it, not the Chinese.
And once they change anything in the device, yes, you would have to redo the CE testing.
Anyways, I sent a mail to GCW that I might be interesting in sellng it two days ago, but didn't get any reply yet.
craigix
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You may as well just email direct to China to get it if it is just the latest Dingoo, they PM me all the time on MSN trying to get me to buy their PMPs.
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lol, I hope you ignored them.
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Maybe he's busy with family?
craigix
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I do, all the hassle and work isn't worth the small profits.
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Most people already know my feeling towards them.
Sorry guys and gals spending time with family and on the road and work of course have to pay the daily bills like everyone else
1. We contacted Ingenic when we started this project and asked them for the best developer/manufacturers they deal with in China. They gave us a small list of about 4 best they knew of. We did the researcher/ due dilegence and decided with one.
Once we picked who we wanted to help us develop this console we went to them with the desired specs and look we wanted. In all we have had 6 prototypes leading to the one we did a teaser video on and had qbertaddict test the latest one. It still needs a few tweaks hardware wise but overall I'm very very pleased with the results.
We know have a basic Linux 2.6 OS on the device and it is ok but we really wanted a better one so we are working on getting Open Dingux on the console and a complete new menu system that takes the best of d-menu and gmenu2x and combines them into one new one. We are also working on an intergated app store that will allow you to purchase commercial apps/games and free apps/games.
The items will have CE/FCC certificatons on release and the hardware is solid stable built. I'm the brain child of this and I'm working with the best hardware/software developers to make the best console we can for the open source community. This is not a Dingoo or Caanoo replacement. The reason we choose Open Dingux is because it is a stable OS and there are numerous apps/games already developed for it and porting would be a really small feat.
We have taken what the community wants in a Open Source console and have tried to put it in this console all the features people have said they want and needed. This will be the first console other then the Pandora to beat the 533Mhz barrier and provide emulations and apps that would not work/run well before such as N64 etc.
I hope this answers most of the questions if there are others please let me know if I missed one...
1. We contacted Ingenic when we started this project and asked them for the best developer/manufacturers they deal with in China. They gave us a small list of about 4 best they knew of. We did the researcher/ due dilegence and decided with one.
Once we picked who we wanted to help us develop this console we went to them with the desired specs and look we wanted. In all we have had 6 prototypes leading to the one we did a teaser video on and had qbertaddict test the latest one. It still needs a few tweaks hardware wise but overall I'm very very pleased with the results.
We know have a basic Linux 2.6 OS on the device and it is ok but we really wanted a better one so we are working on getting Open Dingux on the console and a complete new menu system that takes the best of d-menu and gmenu2x and combines them into one new one. We are also working on an intergated app store that will allow you to purchase commercial apps/games and free apps/games.
The items will have CE/FCC certificatons on release and the hardware is solid stable built. I'm the brain child of this and I'm working with the best hardware/software developers to make the best console we can for the open source community. This is not a Dingoo or Caanoo replacement. The reason we choose Open Dingux is because it is a stable OS and there are numerous apps/games already developed for it and porting would be a really small feat.
We have taken what the community wants in a Open Source console and have tried to put it in this console all the features people have said they want and needed. This will be the first console other then the Pandora to beat the 533Mhz barrier and provide emulations and apps that would not work/run well before such as N64 etc.
I hope this answers most of the questions if there are others please let me know if I missed one...
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Yeah, I wouldn't mind knowing this as well.
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lol, causality.
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Ok, I see now. Cheers, Binks.
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Thanks for being open and posting this background info despite the inital skepticism and negativity from some members here.
To me this is quite an exciting project, I'm looking forward to the next update/prototype video. Its not always convenient to carry my pandora around, this would be a nice auxilliary gaming handheld for me.
OpenDingux, eh... GameGadget killer anyone?
"Again"?
The 'again' in the first post pyramid is referring to the way that this post has unquoted comments before the quote used in the answer, which is before the quote of original question. Of course I have now answered a question before it was asked
It's them quantum physicists with their causality reversal again!So... we got an expensive clone of a chinese device?
That's something refreshing
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