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

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: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-15 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Friday 12 January 2007 05:32, Gervais Mulongoy scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: another solution to that could be the use of scalable graphics the way its done with svg or the way it is done in enlightenment. That sounds like a much better solution than the monoculture

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

OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-12 Thread Kenshin
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?) Hurray for the BlueTooth Buuuh for not having a 2 MP camera -_- Unfortunately for me, it seems neither of the phones suites my needs

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: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-12 Thread Tomasz Zielinski
2007/1/12, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the good news is that it can be generic enough to handle these different devices... The bad news is they all have different screen resolutions, so application for different screen size will loose 95% of functionality, regardless of applied

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

2007-01-12 Thread Justyn Butler
with the ultra-high res screen of course :-) ), one to suit every need, and all running the fantastic OpenMoko platform. Justyn. On 12/01/07, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: OpenMoko ON the iPhone Date: Fri 12 Jan 07 10:19:36AM + But I am used to have a phone

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

Re: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-12 Thread Gervais Mulongoy
another solution to that could be the use of scalable graphics the way its done with svg or the way it is done in enlightenment. On 1/12/07, Tomasz Zielinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/1/12, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the good news is that it can be generic enough to handle these

Re: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-12 Thread Jon Phillips
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 08:32 -0500, Gervais Mulongoy wrote: another solution to that could be the use of scalable graphics the way its done with svg or the way it is done in enlightenment. Exactly, this is one great solution and the way Apple and Microsoft are moving (also, why I am developer on