Salve! When you thought that I have to much Sci-Fi, or nerd/geek ideas for OpenMoko/Neo1973 than because on the reason that this are the ideas does belongs to the hardware development. Now is still the time to influence, motivate Sean/FIC to do some hardware design enhancements :)
OK, but I'm realistic that most of this ideas would be only for next and after, after next hardware generation or only for selfmade hardware hacks. Comming back to the potential of the Neo1973 just with GNU/Linux on the SoC and GSM/GPRS and AGPS - something nearly every phone has SMS. IMHO SMS has much more power than used by phones today and it is a very nice (but expencive) way to communicate with other people. Because nearly every GSM user has and use SMS, SMS will be an important protocol,I/O for OpenMoko/Neo1973 developments with the power of communicate with everybody. Of course some new smart communication ideas would be possible when every body would use OpenMoko/Neo1973 - like my chopping-community idea: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-November/000179.html Especialy in the beguinning we have to deal with the fact, that we will have the power of OpenMoko/Neo1973 - but not our friends, our partner or our family. (So it would be important that some of use will take more then one Neo1973 that some parents, some partner or friends will be beta-tester for us) To be abel to use the power of OM/Neo - we do to use the communication channels that the other use - and especialy which are easy for them to use. E.G. when we could start our browser fast, have an encrypted, compressed, payable internet connection to put some new information on our server - our friends mustn't have the same power... Beside playing with asterisk, special phone nummbers, time to pick up a call or audio-text systems SMS will be powerfull to communicate with non-OpenMoko/Neo1973 user. A SMSd on our device could allow trusted users to raise questions, SMS with a questionmark "?" (and "!") at the beguinning could be parsed and be processed in the background without our interaction (of course this SMS should be logged) ?where The answer could inform where I'm now and what I'm planing to do next hours. (Information from AGPS, routing/navigation application and my agenda) Of course normal friend would get this informaition after I saw what my system is sending and I did confirmed it. But I would allow my partner to ask my. Because she knows that I will go chopping, the first normal SMS with signalisation will be "Hey rob - I saw you will go shopping. Please buy 300g ground almond - let's bake tonight ..." When I go sometimes into the sauna - I could allow to ask frank when I go next ?sauna answer: -14.12.2006 21:00h for shure -21.12.2006 20:30h maybe ?frank tel for frank's telefon number ?cologne I will go to cologne by train on 10.12.2006 14:12h from Aachen central trainstaion. When we do have GPRS and the other not we could offer some services for our friends: ?weather Aachen today tomorrow ?train Aachen Cologne next ?routing Aachen Markt 1 to Aachen Halifax 23 ?location Aachen central trainstation ?tagged-location x:y (my informations around this position - restaurents, shopps...) ?t-loc ?help Dear Frank, you could ask my Neo1973 phone with special commands: ?where - where I'm now and next ?sauna - ?Name tel ?disco - tells you when I will go next into disco ?abo disco - will inform you every time I descide for shure to dance. ?abo end - will stop every abo for more info, please login https://robertmichel.de/frank When we do have a date and our routing program recognice a sinificant delay (traffic jam...) the partner could get a message automaticaly (SMS/voice) ===Outgoing SMS=== Sending SMS could be expensive, so becuase the Software is not developt with the interest of GSM networkoperators it can have "least cost routing" Via GSM a SMS cost me 20 Cent, 4 Cent via Internet (with my GSM number as sender ID for answers) - but Internet cost me GPRS or a data call. SMS (and outgoing SMS) should get an level of importance, with some messeages it isn't important when they be send 1-2hour laters. I don't won't to care how to send it, the SMS should be sended on the cheapest way. Fallback - when I havn't not enough prepaid for sending SMS via Internet. ==Email/SMS fallback== most people that I know does read email regulary - when I like to inform someone a email could be cheaper and good enough. "Frank - we are going to the cinema this night at 21h, will you join?" This could I sended at 14h to Frank and choose -send as email and when he didn't answer untill 17:30 send it as sms,too. So I can forget Frank that afternoon until give an answer. ==Polls== Polls to ask quick which date this week likes most of your friends most to do somethink together.... ==SMS Editor== When I have dialog with one User (e.g. Frank) I like to read all our SMS like a chat - a countinous flow And to use a normal PC for typing SMS - I like to combine the data connection idea inside this mail (it was there Internet via USB) http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-November/000405.html For change a nx client to use the Neo1973 gui on any workstations after plug the Neo1973 into the workstations USB port. Maybe on very restricted workstations it become neccessary that the nx data connection is relaied by a server - the broweser up and download trick to the Neo and on freenx client (maybe java based) can't access the USB port, but a server which route back the nx session. Sorry I can imagine that my thought sounds mad - but I fear that this will be the only working way without software installations (or root rights) on restirictive workstations :) (of course will I propose to do such data conected high encrypted and ahhhmmmm one FPGA could speed up encryption processes SCNR *G*) So this should be a very first short email about SMS to give the impression that even with SMS OpenMoko/Neo1973 will give much more power than most / other smartphones - to integrate smart ideas into the normal SMS application. Feedback and more ideas - what you would like to do with SMS, are (of course) very welcome ;) Greetings, rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
