On Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:11, Ben F-W wrote: > Interesting, Gabriel: I hadn't thought of that. In the same way, > Blackberry started off as an email device, and in most people's minds > that's all it is.
I see more and more people using it as phone. Personally I find the design ridiculous (big, crufty software) and never quite understood the use of push email anyway... > As an email device, it's allowed to be a bit more > complicated and to require more of an effort to learn, because people > aren't mentally comparing it with the phone in their pocket. Exactly. > you're right: maybe the OpenMoko should enter the market as an entirely > new product category (some strong application of the GPS capability > seems appropriate), with the phone capability de-emphasised. In time, of > course, the phone capability could be played up more - and Blackberry is > indeed moving towards emphasising more normal phone functions. > It should be a PDA with GPS that just happens to have a GSM part maybe? _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
