the fr was designed with the outspoken idea of finger friendliness, or rather, only to be operated by finger only. while the idea as such sounds appealing, for a lot of people it is not really the way to go: - as you said, stylus is far more precise - stylus allows more efficient use of screen real estate since active areas like buttons or icons can be much smaller - finger includes a lot of dirt on the screen, let alone dust which in turmn may cause scratches (more easy than a stylus at least)
the quest for a stylus holder has accompanied the fr at least since the begin of mass deployment and there was some hope in the beginning, when everybody spoke of designing a new casing, someone would come up with a casing including a holder. so far, not a single case has shown up, thus no holder either. some people use a triangular stylus tied to the lanyard hole, which makes at least sure, the stylus is always there and doesn't get lost, maybe the wiki has some pictures and addresses, where to get those. additionally, i seem to recall that someone (concerning the lanyard hole) siad, the casing's design was made originally for some kind of device for the peking olympics, most likely not for a multipurpose device like the fr and far less for anything besides finger operation --- not sure, if that's correct, though. so, to make it short: - the missing holder is missing by design - the availability of the design files should enable everbody, who knows how to, to create its own design and, susbsequently, casing - maybe a successor/offspring of the gta-core project will address that _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
