Alan Johnson <a...@datdec.com> writes: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett > (freephile)<g...@freephile.com> wrote: > > Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with > > purchasing some computer equipment. I'm wondering what hardware, > > software and combination people like the best for working seamlessly > > One of these (http://www.openmoko.com/product.html), a portable HD and > a couple of USB KVM docking stations?
There are, actually, already products specifically for this sort of thing: Celio's REDFLY <http://www.celiocorp.com/>. OLO <http://olo-computer.com/> shows a similar idea wherein an iPhone would dock into a shell that looks like a laptop, but with the iPhone in place of (and becoming) a touchpad. I'm not really clear on how the REDFLY devices work, but maybe they could be used with the FreeRunner. > Maybe not, but some day. Then again, maybe now depending on the > kind of work and the if it can support USB video adapters. My guess is that the USB 1.1 isn't quite fast enough to support any particularly high-resolution/-framerate graphics (ditto for the HDD). QVGA, maybe? But the *inbuilt* display is a full, beautiful 640x480, so you might be better-off just putting a big Fresnel lens in front of it. :) Keyboard and mouse, however, are quite do-able--either via USB (with a slave-to-master converter for the port on the FreeRunner) or via bluetooth. > Still how cool is that phone?! I've had one for about six months now, so I can say firsthand: it's *wicked* cool :) Though I have to admit that, most of the time, I use it as `just a mobile phone' and alarm-clock (ffalarms is *awsome*); occasionally I use Pidgin on it, or a web-browser, or TangoGPS (I'm somewhat of a an `old-school', map-reading navigator, so TangoGPS provides just the sort of sort of thing that I like). I've read my e-mail on it using Claws, a few times. It *is* also a lot of fun to to develop for a platform like this, though (I've got ~1.5 projects in the works with it, right now). Anyone else have one? Anyone else doing anything neat with it? (has everyone who /doesn't/ have one yet seen the `A6 blowout sale' going on at the openmoko.com store?) -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/