ian douglas wrote: "I don't want to start another thread like the other guy did a few months back bout "convince me to keep my Neo" but now I've got two major strikes against me using this phone. What's next?"
Ahhh...There's nothing like achieving infamy to start my morning off right. Seriously though, this is VERY bad news for western hemisphere participation in the OpenMoko project. I will repeat my earlier exhortation to FIC and the project: The Apple iPhone *HAS* changed the public's perceptions of what a small, personal communication enabled pocket computer is capable of doing and how it can make their lives easier and keep them up to date and in touch with all that interests them. And after using mine for 60 days now, I am *CONVINCED* that Apple has hit upon a nearly perfect form factor and device interaction model. The centered, 4.5" Diag *Finger Touch* screen with one thumb width of grip space on either end of a basically rectangular device is a "Golden Form Factor". Yes, there are things I would change and things I would add and I am compiling a list, and YES, the fact that this thing's software is NOT open source makes me nuts! Once more with feeling now: In my humble opinion, FIC needs to scrap the GTA01/02 form factor and redesign it to closely match the iPhone's front face. This would give MORE room inside for the boards and battery than the current "stretched doughnut" design. At the very least, if FIC is seriously going to put the GTA02 into production, they should start a separate design team on an iPhone clone project immediately. And for Tiny Tim's sake, let's use that extra room to enable all four bands this time, OK? Ahhh... Infamy. Alan Original Message: ----------------- From: ian douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:53:17 -0800 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Community update: The 850 MHz issue Agreed, I'm in California as well, and though I bought a pre-paid T Mobile card, it doesn't work either because of the 3G issue. It would seem the 850 issue plus the 3G issue has just 'bricked' my Neo (in a metaphorical sense) without me writing a single line of code. And given that the GTA02 will have the same 850 issue, plus that we haven't heard any new news on the 3G firmware upgrade for quite a while, my dream of developing for the Neo is starting to fade away. (Michael informed us back on Oct 13th that they were just working out the 'distribution terms' for giving us a firmware patch -- what's the status?) I don't want to start another thread like the other guy did a few months back bout "convince me to keep my Neo" but now I've got two major strikes against me using this phone. What's next? -id Tupshin Harper wrote: > FWIW, I was planning on buying a GTA02 as soon as its available, but no > 850 is a deal breaker since I would be using it on AT&T's network in > California. I would certainly be willing to buy it without 900MHZ > support, though. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
