Re: What apps will be included with GTA02 phone?

2007-07-12 Thread Ortwin Regel
Pretty much depends on what the community writes I'd guess. Ortwin On 7/10/07, Jonathan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given what has been said about the GTA02 phone being targeted at end users, it will (I assume) various apps that end users expect on their phones. Have FIC and the

OPENMOKO.COM IS UP

2007-07-08 Thread Ortwin Regel
Shop is open, I just placed an order... B) Ortwin On 7/8/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new .COM site is up! http://www.openmoko.com Well spotted... and quick, too! :) Unfortunately, the store is closed. Hopefully it will open soon. Team is still working on

Re: Will the Neo have Wifi?

2007-07-08 Thread Ortwin Regel
Phase 2 in October will have Wifi. On 7/8/07, lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will the Neo have Wifi, sometime consider Wimax, a Sip client? ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Let's get some digging done!

2007-07-08 Thread Ortwin Regel
Somebody (=not me) submitted a Digg story: http://digg.com/linux_unix/NEO1973_Phone_running_open_source_OpenMoko_software_now_available Digg it now! Tell all your friends to digg it! Register at Digg if you have to! Let's get this out to people! Ortwin

Re: Get them while they're still hot!

2007-07-08 Thread Ortwin Regel
By the way, what about colors? Are there only black/white phones? Will I get a random colored one? Did I miss the choice box? I'm not too worried about this but others may be... Ortwin On 7/8/07, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Community! Today is the day that we've all been

Re: Fake Steve Rags on OpenMoko!

2007-07-01 Thread Ortwin Regel
All publicity is good publicity. Also, this is obviously satire. Ortwin On 7/1/07, denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Lefty Schlesinger schrieb: I don't recall having seen a mention of this on the list previously, but Fake Steve Jobs has taken notice of the FIC1973...

Re: An alternative gaming top case

2007-07-01 Thread Ortwin Regel
Make that four buttons so it can work as a second d-pad. That works really well on the Zodiac, DS and GP2X. Also four shoulder buttons would be nice, one for every corner. Would make it very flexible and great for 2 players on one device games. Ortwin On 7/1/07, Frederic Kettelhoit [EMAIL

Fwd: An alternative gaming top case

2007-07-01 Thread Ortwin Regel
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 1, 2007 9:44 PM Subject: Re: An alternative gaming top case To: Frederic Kettelhoit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connect the buttons with the board probably. Also the part about making some holes into the top case

Re: Graphics Accelerator needs matching joystick and keys

2007-06-30 Thread Ortwin Regel
Using the Wiimote would make more sense as it would easily connect through Bluetooth without any modifications being necessary. I'd love to see a future OpenMoko device with a d-pad and a few gaming buttons. I'm not convinced a stick would be a good idea because all I have seen have either been

Re: New Oceans

2007-06-28 Thread Ortwin Regel
750$ minus what I get for the first one used... (If I can bring myself to selling it...) That's less than a third of the iPhone! B) It'll be a great ride. Just like in the old Tapwave Zodiac times... (Anyone else made it over from there to here?) Ortwin On 6/27/07, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL

Re: OpenMokoCamp anyone (after next wave of Neo 1973's arrive)?

2007-06-26 Thread Ortwin Regel
That's probably why the topic is OpenMokoCamp anyone (after next wave of Neo 1973's arrive)?... :P On 6/26/07, Tehn Yit Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't mean to be cynical, but is there enough Neo1973 out there to have a camp? On 6/26/07, WSR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is a

Re: New wishlist item: Side-mounted touch strip sensor

2007-06-19 Thread Ortwin Regel
No, the PSP stick is crap. We don't really need anything analog, the touchscreen does that fine. What we could use are some decent, solid buttons and/or a d-pad. I could also see some applications for a Blackberry style wheel, for example volume control and scrolling. I don't think using a

Re: New wishlist item: Side-mounted touch strip sensor

2007-06-19 Thread Ortwin Regel
On 6/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ortwin Regel wrote: -snip- I could also see some applications for a Blackberry style wheel, for example volume control and scrolling. I don't think using a futuristic sensor would be a good idea because we already have an analog device

Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-13 Thread Ortwin Regel
I agree. Different needs should be addressed in different products, not everything put into one device. I understand people wanting an OpenMoko keyboard phone. I don't have any real use for buttons on a touchscreen phone, though. (Other than for gaming.) Ortwin On 6/11/07, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL

Neo1973 Update!

2007-06-05 Thread Ortwin Regel
Including more than one accelerometer doesn't really make sense I think because there are rotation sensors for detecting rotation. I have one in my DS Motion ( ndsmotion.com ) which can detect rotation around one axis. Include 3 of those (or probably a combined one) and you are good to go. In

Re: Neo1973 Update!

2007-06-03 Thread Ortwin Regel
Sounds great! Now I have to figure out if I wait for phase 2 or get a phase 1 device ASAP and upgrade later... I really need a phone NOW but I also need a phone with Wifi, Accelerometers and more raw power! B) Ortwin On 6/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I got some

Re: Phone Call Security

2007-06-02 Thread Ortwin Regel
IIRC there has been lots of discussion about this a few months back. Take a look at the mailing list archives or the wiki if you can find it! On 6/3/07, Zack Shivers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious if there are any methods of on-the-fly voice encryption that could be used for secure

Re: Salesman neo1973

2007-05-24 Thread Ortwin Regel
Never say yes on the phone or you might already have agreed to a contract... :-/ On 5/24/07, Dean Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cute story Andrew however can I make another suggestion - you should have said yes I would like to upgrade to your carrier sir. The mobile handset that I would

Re: Size and weight considerations for future Openmoko devices

2007-05-04 Thread Ortwin Regel
My experience was very different. My Tapwave Zodiac (best portable thing ever made... *sigh*) had awesome stereo sound, even without headphones. It's also quite noticable with other devices whether they have stereo sound or not. The problem with the 1973 is that it will probably be rotated a lot.

Re: picture viewer

2007-04-21 Thread Ortwin Regel
moves for doing one thing and reverting the result. Another advantage would be, that one is not forced to use more than one finger at the same time. Regards Karsten Ortwin Regel wrote: Interesting... However, what about zooming out again? Also this would take too much time while possibly being

Re: picture viewer

2007-04-20 Thread Ortwin Regel
and right/bottom, as well as pulling up a context menu for center taps. That context menu may still include zoom levels, but would have other options also, like sending the pic to someone else, copying, deleting, etc. --Steve On 4/19/07, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dragging motions

Re: picture viewer

2007-04-20 Thread Ortwin Regel
Interesting... However, what about zooming out again? Also this would take too much time while possibly being too fast for my grandparents. Holding the second tap is a bad idea but dragging it around might be a good one. All in all, how about this: drag finger -- drag viewable area tap, then tap

Re: picture viewer

2007-04-19 Thread Ortwin Regel
Dragging motions to the left/right could display the next/last picture. Maybe even better: Only require a single touch at the left or right side of the screen. Makes the screen last longer and is faster. Left and right would be two sides each because the phone could be held upwards and sideways,

Fwd: Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person

2007-03-28 Thread Ortwin Regel
Don't forget that phones have vibrators. They could be used in cunning ways with a relatively simple UI to provide feedback and thus usability of touchscreens for even completely blind people. On 3/27/07, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 March 2007 10:23:08 Bartlomiej

Re: A new approach to Re: Itch3: Anti-lost/theft protection

2007-03-02 Thread Ortwin Regel
The thing has bluetooth so it should be able to connect to the Wiimote. Using one instead of an internal accelerometer makes sense, because when you move your phone around, it's hard to keep looking at the screen. Ortwin On 3/1/07, adrian cockcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to

Re: About March Release

2007-02-19 Thread Ortwin Regel
Not 5 phones, 6 devices. On 2/19/07, Jason Elwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a thread on this list awhile ago that said that changes could be made to the hardware should a problem be identified. Sean did say however that they will be offering upgrade incentives on the new hardware.

Re: About March Release

2007-02-19 Thread Ortwin Regel
Nobody knows anything about the other five, yet... ;) On 2/19/07, el jefe delito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not 5 phones, 6 devices. All available in September?? ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Neo 1973 Featured on gizmodo.com

2007-02-15 Thread Ortwin Regel
Digg it: http://digg.com/gadgets/First_Look_the_Anti_iPhone_OpenMoko_s_Neo1973_Linux_Powered_Smartphone On 2/15/07, William Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenMoko`s Neo 1973 featured as the Anti-iPhone http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/smartphones/first-look-the-antiiphone-openmokos-neo1973-236841.php

Re: Neo1973 video (was Re: What would be a realistic but challenging level for Bryce announced trophy money for video playback on the Neo1973? Re: h.264 format is now open?)

2007-02-04 Thread Ortwin Regel
Since you're going to have to reencode your videos for OpenMoko anyway, they could easily be prerotated in the process. That's what we were doing on the Tapwave Zodiac until the amazing people from CoreCodec worked their magic. On 2/4/07, Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikko Rauhala

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-31 Thread Ortwin Regel
It's not difficult to understand but I think it's not a very intuitive idea. Ideally future OpenMoko devices would have multitouch which would get us very intuitive zoom and movement along the map. Using an accelerometer to control something is a good idea for the Wii where you have the

Re: Phone enhancements

2007-01-27 Thread Ortwin Regel
I just saw you use your phone while driving! No, officer, I was only checking my blood alcohol level! Great... :D Also, I wonder what the German law has to say about using a breathalyzer while driving... On 1/28/07, Bryce Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh don't get me wrong I completely agree

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Ortwin Regel
so software is easy to buy but they take advantage of that by ripping off developers. On 1/26/07, Mikhail Gusarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Twas brillig at 01:17:56 26.01.2007 UTC+01 when Ortwin Regel did gyre and gimble: OR I share your opinions but try to tell that to some OR developers

Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-25 Thread Ortwin Regel
can work. However, that makes a central marketplace even more important: It has to be easier to find a legal copy of the game than to find a pirated one. On 1/26/07, Marcel de Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ortwin, On 1/25/07, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like open source

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Ortwin Regel
I'll risk it anyway... Guess it'll be a rough ride, then, but I'm up for that. Can't wait another six months for the phone of my dreams. :P On 1/26/07, Marcel de Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/26/07, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcel de Jong writes: On 1/26/07, Michael 'Mickey'

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