Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-02 Thread Christopher Havel
*All* handheld computers are a mess. Google up the PSION Organizer II some time. My example was made the year I was born... 1986. There are two PCBs and a ribbon cable inside your average Org2, and the traces on the motherboard are positively draconian -- they have a habit of jumping from one side

Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-02 Thread Joseph Honold
A handheld QWERTY device has been my goal for EOMA68 since I found out about it. I've been looking at various LCD options and all of the RGB ones that are 3.5"-4" have low resolution (320x240, 480x320, and expensive 640x480). This lead me to look at MIPI DSI displays which are cheaper with

Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-02 Thread Joseph Honold
On 09/02/2016 09:58 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > well, do add the research that you've done to > http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/clamshell_microlaptop/ > > that's what the wiki is there for. at the same time can you please > add mention of the SEW291 3G module, and that

Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Joseph Honold wrote: > A handheld QWERTY device has been my goal for EOMA68 since I found out about > it. cool. well, do add the research that you've done to http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/clamshell_microlaptop/ that's what the

Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-02 Thread Sam Pablo Kuper
On 02/09/16 15:33, Joseph Honold wrote: > A handheld QWERTY device has been my goal for EOMA68 since I found out about > it. :) > Mouse could be implemented as a "keymouse" (like we use on Zipit, uinput > driver). Basically, hold a modifier key and use DPad to move cursor and > right/left

Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Sam Pablo Kuper wrote: > I don't know if that kind of glass is compatible with hybrid displays of > the kind I mentioned above. Nor do I know if such hybrid

Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > The Pyra [3] is supposed to be modular (having, for example, a replaceable CPU > board [4] and potentially other boards), but it isn't certain

Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-02 Thread Sam Pablo Kuper
On 02/09/16 15:33, Joseph Honold wrote: > Ultimately, I want to have cellular phone capability > (voice/data/sms) [... ] > > Pyra is nice but wouldn't be a good as a traditional cellphone > unless you put ear speaker and mic on backside of LCD/lid. Any microphones or speakers (or cameras for that

Re: [Arm-netbook] Sorry to Luke (and others)

2016-09-02 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 2. September 2016 07.43.09 chadvellac...@sasktel.net wrote: > > And I am nearly sure that it HAD occurred to me, in the past, that if a > question whose answer is likely of interest to others, can be asked and > answered PUBLICLY, then that can save time for the person answering, by