On 9/7/07, Nkoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> It just occurred to me that Apple's price cut may have nothing to do with
> lagging sales [...] $399 iphones are highly detrimental to the success of
> the Neo1973.
>
They're after Google, not Neo IMO. Can you remember of any free software
product th
On 7/15/07, Rodolphe Ortalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Technically yes.
However, legally, they cannot do this *arbitrarily*.
technically / legally / arbitrarily: technically it's doable, we agree;
arbitrariness can be debatted in courts indeed, if you ever get to a court.
But the main concern
Just to (hopefully) clarify: I've read, probably from some very unreliable
internet source, about a scheme where police make the carrier uploads an
"improved" firmware over the air, which turns the phone into a microphone,
even when not calling; it changes the shutdown function into a "pretend to
I'll be interested *if* the GTA02 is to be delivered as a board only. If
not, or if you want to order before it's known whether the board-only
version will be offered, don't wait for me...
On 7/3/07, Foucault de Bonneval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Openmokogeeks,
will it be possible for F
If you want, say, phone, music and camera capabilities:
- either you have plenty of pockets, then you buy a proper camera, a proper
phone and a proper mp3 player
- or you don't want to carry an extra 2kg in your pants, then you buy an
all-in-one device; then compactness is a must.
For many featur
There are regularly reports about development on OSX in the mailing list,
all of these being failure reports AFAIK. The modified qemu sources need
GCC3, not GCC4, and OSX's GCC3 is broken.
If you manage to setup an SDK on OSX, be sure to spread the word on the
mailing list and the wiki, many peop
On 6/28/07, Mathias Rüdiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Impression form running Openmoko with qemu
These are extremely precious and constructive feedback, I think their place
is on the openmoko wiki.
We need to gather, resume and address these kind of feedbacks, so that user
experience will i
On 6/28/07, Cailan Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does the multi-touch screen make this easier somehow?
It might help a bit in corner cases, but what really makes or breaks it is a
proper, global thinking of the user experience (which is generally not the
same, and even sometimes directl
On 6/28/07, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
someone on this list had a similar idea for enlarging number keys i
think, they would appear or resize depending on context iirc?
http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/keyboard_large.html
That's shiny and beautiful, but of limited use: th
Following the "there's much more than GFX effects in a usable UI", here's an
interesting blog post:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000883.html
It's not about embedded devices GUI, rather about desktop apps vs. web apps.
However, mutatis mutandis, it drives another nail in the same cof
On 6/7/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tomasz Zielinski wrote:
> If with GTK/Matchbox we cannot achieve such rich, fluid and, erm...,
> fluid GUI as iPhone, maybe it's not too late to drop GTK and choose
> other framework, designed for mobile devices and running quick
> fra
On 6/6/07, Casper van Donderen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you still edit that main panel [...] because the color of choice at
the moment is orange [...]
I think that when we talk about UI, we don't primarily think of skins and
colors: these rather fall in the "bells & whistle" category. W
On 6/6/07, Michele Manzato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Due to bad UI] Even today I would never, ever buy a Motorola!
I never personally owned a motorola, but it's far from being the first time
I hear rants about their poor usability indeed. I also agree that Nokia
produces rather well designe
Open source software hasn't exactly a great record, when it comes to GUI
usability. The only graphic OSS application with outstanding usability I can
think of is Firefox, and it took them a couple of netscapes and mozillas and
forks and rewrites, all in all a decade, to get there. When you ask bet
On 6/5/07, Thomas Gstädtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hm, looks fat and ugly, but I'd like to have that navkey on the neo. :)
HTC builds good devices - if they weren't win mobile powered.
As I say often, win mobile isn't usable for phones.
As a former HTC customer I can only agree: hardware
enty of libs in Ruby suited to the applications you
have in mind, the platform is more important than the language. But what
Ruby libs would you plan to leverage in your typical openmoko application?
Would it be hard to find good alternatives on luaforge [
http://www.luaforge.n
ertized in the apps
list :-( )
Some other questions that i would be very happy to have answers for :
* Which bluetooth chip will you use? Which version (1.2 or 2.0 ?)
* Which profiles to you intend to support in the initial release ?
Cheers,
Fabien
PS: Of course, as soon as the Neo is out, i'
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