Re: Dot'n reply above quote

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Bohme
Yocto wrote: One more thing I like with other mailing lists. They start their subjects with a token describing their mailing lists in square brackets. This allow to quickly sort / filter the incoming mails. Examples: [jQuery],[Qemu-devel], [ECOS], [Rtai], [vlc] It would be nice

Re: porting PalmOS apps?

2007-01-21 Thread Paul Bohme
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Is anyone looking into the difficulty of porting old PalmOS applications to OpenMoko? There are a few of them that I'd really hate to lose (the Pilot-DB flat-file database and the Timing multiple timer are two I use a lot, and haven't seen any equivalent Linux programs for).

Re: Alternative input, like Dasher

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Bohme
Derek Pressnall wrote: One of my favorite alternative inputs is a system callec QuickWriting (I've also seen it called qwikscript, qwikscroll, etc). The concept is that you have the alphabet aranged in groups along a circle, where the circle is divided into eight sections. Each section

Re: Idea: Human screenning

2007-01-16 Thread Paul Bohme
Ole Tange wrote: On 1/15/07, Paul Bohme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Crossland wrote: On 15/01/07, Gervais Mulongoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, until the phone spam operators start using basic voice recognition and to defeat the simple riddle :p Spammers don't do email address de

Re: Idea: Human screenning

2007-01-15 Thread Paul Bohme
Dave Crossland wrote: On 15/01/07, Gervais Mulongoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, until the phone spam operators start using basic voice recognition and to defeat the simple riddle :p Spammers don't do email address de-obfuscation because it takes too much processing time; I can't see them

Re: keyboard / keypad idea

2007-01-15 Thread Paul Bohme
Derek Pressnall wrote: Since devices like the neo 1973 and the iphone don't have a keypad, I thought of an idea that could provide a close substitute. How about making a screen protector type of overlay that is transparent at the top, but the bottom section would have raised bumps in a keypad

Re: Fwd: OpenMoko in my area?

2007-01-15 Thread Paul Bohme
Mike wrote: Marcel de Jong wrote: ps. I really don't like the fact that 'reply' doesn't work on this mailinglist. I have to add the mailaddress myself. (this is the only mailinglist that I know, that does that this way) You'll want to be careful here - is an odd thing that people get really

Re: MicroSD Wifi ?

2007-01-15 Thread Paul Bohme
Grahame Falvey wrote: On 15/01/07, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grahame Falvey writes: Is the microSD slot accessable while the phone is operational? Or does one have to remove the battery and hence power down the device in order to swap out the card? As far as we know, it requires

Re: iPhone vs. Neo1973 comparison

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Bohme
Jon Phillips wrote: I guess this is the perfect example of where you need infrastructure up on the openmoko.com website. I think having http://wiki.openmoko.org sooner rather than later would be good, otherwise, the community is already routing around this and putting content here and there...

Lightweight 'navigational' app? (Was Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?)

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Bohme
Sven Neuhaus wrote: Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: We have two more kits that will be available (in addition to the standard kit): A Car Kit and a Hacker's Lunchbox. Car kit? Please tell me it includes car navigation software... :) This screen (not to mention the GPS) is just screaming for maps to

Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Bohme
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On 1/10/07 12:47 AM, Sven Neuhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something is seriously wrong if they can't present a working unit the same month they were originally going to ship them. Didn't they talk about shipping units to a few devs in December? I wanted to

Re: Idea: Vibrator as keyboard click

2006-12-30 Thread Paul Bohme
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: That's a nice idea. I wonder a) whether the softest movement we can do with the vibrator that would still not be interfering with operating the device and b) how much power such an option would suck. Was wondering this (b) myself, but doesn't seem like it would

Re: Internal flash size

2006-12-20 Thread Paul Bohme
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 15:31, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: It is easy to find 2GB usb sticks on market for 20 EUR. FIC Phone will get 64MB (preliminary specs)... Can it get more? 512MB or more with good partitioning (/ + /home) would be nice I would second

Re: FCC status for FIC Neo1973?

2006-12-13 Thread Paul Bohme
Jeremy wrote: I'm no expert at all, but I do know that when we were designing a device with a Kyocera m200 CDMA data module (http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/m2m-business/index.htm), the module itself was carrier (Sprint in our case) approved and FCC approved, but once we incorporated it into

Re: FCC status for FIC Neo1973?

2006-12-13 Thread Paul Bohme
if the one in the neo1973 does not... Sean or anyone who knows... Is configuration by sms possible with this phone? Can we override it with a gui? Or ony by the gui maybe? --Tim On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:19, Paul Bohme wrote: Jeremy wrote: I'm no expert at all, but I do know that when we were

Re: Shiny geek toy?

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Bohme
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On 12/7/06 12:00 PM, Christopher Heiny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we really want a shiny geek toy? Something that is super cool and technologically advanced, but only nerds will want to hack on? Or should we be working toward a solid OpenSource platform that will