I'm hoping to use it not just for in-car navigation, but also data readout. I intend to rig it to display voltage and current in my electric car. I'd like to see someone do that with an iPhone :-P
-Steven On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter, your email below is the one I've been trying to write for the > past few months. > > Like you, what got me excited about this project was NOT the possibility > of building better cellphone applications, but rather the possibility of > creating radically new uses for a general purpose, location aware, > connected handheld computer. > > I'd like a phone that syncs seamlessly with Thunderbird and the rest of > my Linux workstyle. But what really turns me on is the potential uses > that I can't even imagine yet. > > It is that innovation that I hope to see come out of this community, and > I hope that in some way I can help make it happen. > > Michael > > Peter Harrison wrote: >> I wouldn't focus on the age of the hardware at all. >> >> The real question is whether this will be a hardware platform that >> others will be able to build innovation on top of. With phone companies >> making available only applications which earn them money you have not >> really seen the same kind of innovation that we saw in the PC space in >> the early 90's. >> >> It will no doubt be a success in its own right, but what about other >> ideas... >> >> * IP phone over Wifi and integrate with Asterisk IP phone systems - >> changes to GSM outside the office. >> * In car navigation system. >> * Low cost taxi fare system. >> * Courier driver system that minimizes route time and allows dispatch to >> communicate. >> * Robotic platform and robotic control >> * Hospitals - used by nurses and doctors for prescriptions and >> observations as low cost tablet. >> >> The Neo could open up hundreds of vertical market opportunities that the >> Telco's currently have no interest in tapping. If you think that the Neo >> is simply a different kind of iPhone you are missing the point. Many >> applications may use GPRS, but may not even implement phone >> functionality. Some may not even use GSM. To me the attraction is that >> it has been designed from the ground up to run Linux, and there is a >> dedicated team working on the frameworks that will make delivery of >> these applications possible. >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
