I couldn't agree more on the first two items. I would however up e-mail to number 2 and include Groupware (calendar, notes, ....) and texting (SMS or IM) in the top list. GPS is important to me/our effort but not as high a priority as mail, calendar & texting. A dev environment for corporate apps as well but that could be a parallel effort.
Rich On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 15:37 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I dont mind having a FIC NEO 1973, phone that I can only call with and > receive calls initially. > No problem. I think FIC & developers underestimates this. there a re a > lot of us in companies want to use the phone platform for other markets > anyway. > Open Source is the only way we can create derivative applications for it > to even distribute with our products. > > If the hardware is fixed right now and will not be upgraded severely, it > would be great to have one now and continually upgrade and add software > as it develops. > This is anyway how most open source folks work and it is part of the fun. > > As Steve Jobs said in his keynote speech with the release of the iphone, > "making a call is the killer app" > He is right and we must not forget that. > > I think you guys need to get this out asap. > The only reason I do not buy the iphone right now is because it does not > have GPS. > > To me there are three killer aps in order of importance > 1) Make a call (thanks Steve you're right) > 2) GPS > 3) Open source. > 3) Internet/mail etc. > > L Venter > MMRI > > Ian Stirling wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What is the latest release date for the FIC NEO 1973, and where will > >> I be able to buy it? > >> I am holding off on company cellphone purchases until I see what the > >> neo can do as my company is Unix only which makes it very attractive. > >> If it will take till next year it will be lights out and I will buy > >> something else. > >> > > > > For end-users, it's still September. > > For developers, a couple of weeks, hopefully. > > This will _NOT_ be a workable phone you want to distribute to > > employees in a couple of weeks. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- GPG/PGP Key Id: 1B257AEC from pgp.mit.edu Remember, all Windows machines are, by definition, fault tolerant. They run Windows don't they!!
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