Hi Patrick On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Patrick Beck <pb...@yourse.de> wrote: > Am Samstag, den 19.03.2011, 20:40 +0800 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz: > > Hi Patrick > > > > What would you like to hear in an official statement? > > > > We are very focused on making WikiReader a retail success. We sent a > > newsletter out in January talking about our progress: > > > >http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b982f5bdf55759b5b47661379&id=17f3fdc0f8 > > > > 3 times a year (quarterly) we update WikiReader's content. Usually > > with new languages and added Wikis (beyond just Wikipedia). > > i have not seen such a newsletter so it was a mistake by me. But i have > not found it on http://thewikireader.com/a/blog/
We also announce this type of stuff on twitter (@wikireader) if you don't want to subscribe to the newsletter. > > Believe it or not, WikiReader is expensive to build. The quality is > > extremely high quality. We specifically designed it to last for a long > > time on very simple AAA batteries. This required special components > > that aren't commonly used in electronics these days. > > I know its not so easy and cheap, but you have hard competitors on the > smartphone market. I own a Wikireader so i like the idea :) My father is > very happy about it. His only problem is the display, because it has no > background light (i know the battery). We hope to improve the screen one day. I feel your father's pain. > I don't know if the problems are solved in a new version (i have to look > for a update). My last problems was. > > - Table of contents would be very nice > - the overview block from the wikipedia (where population, president, > etc. are listed. For example in a article about a country) > - kinetic scrolling is a bit messy to see where you are on a black/white > display ;) We tried to simplify the layouts of Wikipedia a bit for device since many of the overviews are 3-4 pages of scrolling on our little screen. I don't think we'll get to those features soon. Although they are on our list. Are you programmer yourself? Our code on http://github.com/wikireader. > So last but not least. My question about a official statement. How looks > the future? I hope i can buy the third Openmoko device after Freerunner > and Wikireader :) Thanks for your kind words. We'd love to make a lot more devices for you all. But our resources are tight these days. We are working on a third device. But it's only in the early prototype stages. WikiReader is going to occupy the majority of our time for a while. We really want to make it a retail success. Take care. Sean _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community