If I get you right, you'll be doing a design for the Android device that the OEM's can use, right?
Why not? You can probably take these designs to the OHA members and may be get a couple of them interested. Good luck. Checked your website, may be you can make it a bit simple to navigate around. The "click here" doesn't take me back to the image again. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Stephen Jarman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all! I'm very excited, much like you, about the Android platform > for mobile devices - as I think it will really provide what I want in > a phone. So, in a class project where we had to design an ideal mobile > phone to appeal to the mass market, the first thing that came to my > mind was Android. I was going to base my device on Android. > > So, after a bit of thought and some effort, I came up with a basic > shape and design concept for the "first" real Android device. We > weren't really going to create one, of course, because it's just a > school project. However, I thought that I might want to share what I > have come up with with the rest of the Android community to get a > wider opinion. > > The main idea of this phone, which I have temporarily dubbed the > &threesixty (AND360), is to have no visible buttons on the front of > the device - just a large touch-screen. The &threesixty is just about > the size of a BlackBerry Curve, to give you an idea. The screen covers > the whole front of the device up until a couple millimetres away from > the edges. On the sides, there are rocker buttons, a play/pause media > button, a "profile" mode button and a camera button. There is a > compact 2MP camera on the back, as well as an LED flash, doubling as a > torch. The top holds a Mini-USB connector and a standard 3.5 mm audio > jack, as well as a power/standby button. The bottom holds the two > speakers, much like on the iPhone. > > What do you think about the 2MP camera? Would it be too small? I'm > mostly concerned for the actual size of the device, although places to > store larger photos might become a hurdle. Oh yes, I almost forgot > that the device has the option for the upgrading of memory through a > micro-SD, stored underneath the battery. > > As shown in the mock-up picture, there is a metallic strip curving > around the middle of the device, bordered at the bottom by a thinner, > white and translucent strip, which holds "colour-changing" LEDs, which > can be set to stay a certain colour when in use, or even a slowly > changing spectrum - all being set through a control panel in Android. > This could also act as the notifier LED, so that it could change > colour upon a message or event being received. > > If you would like to see the mock-up device, please visit... > http://sailing-fast.com/and360 > > Thank you in advance for all your opinions! > > Regards, Stephen Jarman > Sail Fast: sailing-fast.com > > > -- take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://mobeegal.in find stuff closer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
