Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-20 Thread Marc Verwerft
You want one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/ ? Marc. On 1/20/07, Josef Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:07:40PM +0100, Torsten Röhl wrote: Why - QWERTY keypad ? we have a wide screen 2,8 inch and i love the new iphone concept without qwerty

Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-20 Thread Attila Csipa
On Saturday 20 January 2007 10:19, Marc Verwerft wrote: You want one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/ ? I tried one of those, five stars for coolness, one star for usability, especially for our EMACS friend, it's not exactly meant for heavy typers. You're likely better

Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-19 Thread Jacob Peterson
Ough! I just can't imagine how to use emacs with this new iphone concept. While this new concept is a fine thing for a phone, I'd like to be able to do _real_ work with it. I'm a developer, so my main tool is emacs, but there are more tasks (e.g. email/mail) where a kbd would be usefull. With

Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-16 Thread Dane Jensen
On Saturday 13 January 2007 13:0 PS I have an unrelated question. I see that FIC produces laptops (the contact for clients here in the Netherlands is someone in the UK). I expect you are a user of these laptops. Do you have a good experience? I was very upset when, at the moment of buying my

Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-15 Thread Carlo E. Prelz
Subject: Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone Date: sab 13 gen 07 07:40:39 + Quoting Sean Moss-Pultz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 1/12/07 3:23 AM, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is: are there plans for FIC to produce a

Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-15 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/13/07 9:03 PM, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know if FIC is bound by the same idiot rules, or I can purchase a portable with a clean hard drive? I might be interested in a GR3 model. This is totally out of our control. These kinds of rules are company-to-Microsoft,

Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-15 Thread Torsten Röhl
Am Montag, 15. Januar 2007 15:44 schrieb Andreas Kostyrka: * Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070115 15:35]: On 1/12/07 3:23 AM, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is: are there plans for FIC to produce a QWERTY keyboard model with native openmoko? (Possibly with wifi

Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Torsten Röhl writes: Why - QWERTY keypad ? we have a wide screen 2,8 inch and i love the new iphone concept without qwerty keypad. I hope that the next neo1973 generation phones are also iphone like (without qwerty keypad) ... i think a neo1973 next generation phone with qwerty keypad is just

A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-12 Thread Carlo E. Prelz
Subject: OpenMoko ON the iPhone Date: Fri 12 Jan 07 10:19:36AM + Quoting Kenshin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If someone does indeed get Linux running on the iPhone, can we also expect to have the freedom to install anything we want, including OpenMoko? (it's FOSS right?) I have

Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-12 Thread Justyn Butler
I realise this in no way answers your question, but this mini bluetooth keyboard http://www.freedominput.com/mainsite/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=12Itemid=30 seems similar in size to what you get on communicator-style phones of which you speak. It would certainly be no good for

Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-12 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
Another possible entry device for walking might be the frogpad: http://www.frogpad.com/ Andreas * Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070112 12:24]: Subject: OpenMoko ON the iPhone Date: Fri 12 Jan 07 10:19:36AM + Quoting Kenshin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If someone does indeed

Re: A FIC phone with a real keyboard - Was: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-12 Thread Atlasz
You see, here is a difference in needs. There is no way a phone could contein a QUERTY keyboard with buttons big enough for my fingers so I'm trying to avoid even seeing that kind of phone:-) Anyway a 5 direction key would be nice to have.. Carlo E. Prelz wrote: Subject: OpenMoko ON the