Re: Apple is going to beat all competitors

2007-09-08 Thread Fabien
On 9/7/07, Nkoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 that

Re: Reason for openmoko - bugsafe?

2007-07-15 Thread Fabien
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

Re: Reason for openmoko - bugsafe?

2007-07-15 Thread Fabien
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

Re: [France] Grouping orders,

2007-07-09 Thread Fabien
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

Re: Brainstorm: less functionality per device, more devices

2007-07-03 Thread Fabien
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

Re: the keyboard on the competition

2007-06-28 Thread Fabien
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: the

Re: Stylus, the iPhone, and multi touch screens

2007-06-28 Thread Fabien
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 directly

Re: Openmoko Usability

2007-06-28 Thread Fabien
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

Re: Development on OSX

2007-06-28 Thread Fabien
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

Re: UI ideas/questions or can we animate things as smooth as iPhone?

2007-06-11 Thread Fabien
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

Re: UI ideas/questions or can we animate things as smooth as iPhone?

2007-06-07 Thread Fabien
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

Re: UI ideas/questions

2007-06-06 Thread Fabien
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. What

Re: New HTC Touch

2007-06-05 Thread Fabien
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

Re: Ruby for OpenMoko - got it small

2007-05-29 Thread Fabien
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.net]? -- Fabien

Bluetooth questions from a bluetooth guy [Was: collaborating on bluetooth audio]

2007-01-15 Thread Fabien Chevalier
:-( ) 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'm gonna purchase the hacker's