This has been discussed before. You probably don't realise the cost of designing and tooling a moulded plastic panel. Even a low volume alloy tool, such as the one we had made for the Mk. 2 panel, costs tens of thousands of pounds. There are only 350 Mk. 1 players out there, and even if 50% of owners decided to buy a new panel (which I would doubt) we'd have to charge something like 150 pounds for the plastic, just to break even.

The cost was worthwhile for the Mk. 2 because we plan to sell a lot of them, but we still won't have the volume to start offering options. Don't forget that Nokia sell many millions of phones!

Rob