Plenty of good points well made and also some good points not so well made ;)
The fact that FIC are keen to build a whole slew of devices about openmoko is great news and I hope that we will see different form factor phones as well as other devices. That said I am almost more excited about getting more openmokos out in the wild because I am sure that we are going to see a good amount of hardware hacking as well as software. If weight is an issue for some it would be interesting to see component breakdown from a weight point of view, see where the difference in weight comes from. Personally, I like weighty and am more bothered about bulky. Am I right in thinking that the Neo hardware designs are almost as open as openmoko? Would be interesting to see a bit of community design from that side of things. Cherry pick from current designs or something entirely new. I wonder how small you could squeeze down Neo hardware if you had a fixed battery with much smaller cover for sim and micro sd? I've not plucked up teh courage to take apart my ipod nano yet but I have always wondered how they get that little thing together from a manufacturing point of view. Obviously the metal case would be rubbish for a phone and there is no way I'm suggesting anything that small... On 03/05/07, wim delvaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW, most of these 'light' phones do seem so 'fragile'. It looks like any drop from pocket or table might smash them to bits. Less weight generally means more flimsy devices. I have had the NEO in my hands and although the numbers may make if sound like it is chunky it is not AND when held gives you the feeling that it is rather drop-safe. Personally I prefer 'robustness' over 'light weight'. (Hell, I still run around with my NOKIA 6130 which to any modern standard looks like a brick, but I lost track of how many times it dropped on the floor) W _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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