Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Christoph Pulster wrote: Pulster - Wikireader with 8 GB card - 109 eur Medion - Wikireader with 4 GB card - 80 eur A 16 GB microSD card is 19 eur. This pushes me out of business. This is an opensource community where people work and help together. So I'd vote to buy the next WR from pulster and not from conrad and give him the 9 EUR to keep his nice shop running. BTW: After your third order you will get a barrel of red wine from him for christmas! This is (almost) true, as I experienced it myself. What I do not understand is, why you focus on online markets. Here in Germany Medion sells via conrad.de - a mayor electronic online shop. The Wikireader is a classical offline device aimed to non- computer geeks. Some educational projects of developing countries should be the right address. Politically yes, economically maybe not. conrad is a man's toy shop and many people buy things simply because they can have it, not because they need it. The One Laptop Per child project imo suffers from the same idea. If they would offer their product to the mass market, they would sell much more and finally could drop their price this way for developing countries. (But I'm not a business man...) Alex. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
OT: OLPC hw distribution [Was: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?]
Em 20-03-2011 12:25, Alexander Lehner escreveu: The One Laptop Per child project imo suffers from the same idea. If they would offer their product to the mass market, they would sell much more and finally could drop their price this way for developing countries. I think the OLPC project shoot themselves regularly on the foot by making it very hard for geeks to get the devices (or even upgrades, once they get one). This causes a huge barrier to entry of people with the skills to help. Rui ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
[QtMoko] Hebrew keyboard
Hello everyone, I made a Hebrew predictive keyboard for QtMoko as I couldn't find one. You can use it by pasting it into /opt/qtmoko/etc/default/Trolltech/PredictiveKeyboardLayout.conf. The first line needs to be [Boardnumber], e.g. [Board6] if you already have 5 keyboards. # utf8 is broken, use http://www.industrialtrainer.com/Unicode.shtm # Hebrew keyboard Type=Other Rows=!?'\x05E7\x05E8\x05D0\x05D8\x05D5\x05DF\x05DD\x05E4,\x05E9\x05D3\x05D2\x05DB\x05E2\x05D9\x05D7\x05DC\x05DA\x05E3,,\x05D6\x05E1\x05D1\x05D4\x05E0\x05DE\x05E6\x05EA\x05E5. I replaced the symbol / from the original Hebrew keyboard by the symbols ! and ? which I use more. Feel free to change the keyboard to suit your needs. I also made a very small German keyboard with all the special letters. Feel free to use and modify it. # utf8 is broken, use http://www.industrialtrainer.com/Unicode.shtm # German letters Type=Other Rows=\x0E4\x0F6\x0FC\x0DF,\x0C4\x0D6\x0DC Best, Alon. -- View this message in context: http://openmoko-public-mailinglists.1958.n2.nabble.com/QtMoko-Hebrew-keyboard-tp6189612p6189612.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?
Hi Sean, it's great to hear from you :) 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=b982f5bdf55759b5b47661379id=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/ 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). 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 ;) 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 :) with kind regards Patrick signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
