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.
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