On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:47:46PM +0200, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote: > Hi Corey, > > > On Monday, May 16, 2011 09:02:58 AM Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > >> NOTE: Cross-posted to three mailing lists, please keep it that way, if > >> you want to reply. > >> > >> Aurora is supposed to be something we call a "featurephone client" – > >> featurephones being those things we used for telephony before > >> smartphones were invented. > >> > > > > Could you please elaborate a bit further for those of us who are > > unsure of the specific functional differences between a "featurephone" > > and a "smartphone"? > > For sure. Featurephone vs. Smartphone is resembling the difference > of, lets say, a Sony Ericsson K700, and an iPhone. > > On the K700, the whole OS is designed around the telephony. While it > has additional "features", it doesn't allow you to install native applications > (well, yes, there are some Java applets, but these don't count as they > are not at all integrated into the system and they can't access the phone > databases nor talk to each other) – it sells because of the quality of the > telephony. > > On the iPhone, the whole OS is designed around the idea of a mobile > computer that allows you to perform a vast variety of tasks. You can install > a myriad > of apps and only a very minor percentage of these apps have anything to do > with telephony. The telephony is a "feature" among many others. In fact, > telephony is pretty lousy on an iPhone, but that's ok, because it is not the > feature that sells this device. > > Bottom line: feature phone is less flexible, comes with everything > preinstalled, > and is designed around the telephony.
There is nice description of feature phone and smartphone in Chapter 2 http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/papers/gsm_phone-anatomy-latest.pdf but I guess this doesn't help much to imagine "featurephone client" :) -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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