RE: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-14 Thread steve
Seconded. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Taylor Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:53 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management,features assumptions Ken Young wrote

QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Ken Young
Stroller wrote: Reading these posts of the last few days it has just occurred to me that it's not Carsten we should be beating up on here. Who the heck asked for translucency and flashy animations? Management seem to be asking for this alpha bleeding rubbish, and it seems to me that we

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Ortwin Regel
Well said. Ortwin On 6/10/08, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Jun 2008, at 01:56, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: ... i am asked by product management to do things that are just not possible in vga (to do sanely/fast). ... in the end if product management want X they get X.

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Lally Singh
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Jun 2008, at 01:56, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: ... i am asked by product management to do things that are just not possible in vga (to do sanely/fast). ... in the end if product management want X they get X.

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Steven Milburn
I have used an iPhone, my wife's. The animations are pretty at first. After a while, they're just annoying. My wife gets impatient waiting for windows to get out of the way so she can get on with what she's trying to do. What's really funny is that some times the phone will do all that neat

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Robert Taylor
Ortwin Regel wrote: Reading these posts of the last few days it has just occurred to me that it's not Carsten we should be beating up on here. Who the heck asked for translucency and flashy animations? Management seem to be asking for this alpha bleeding rubbish, and it seems to me that we

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Robert Taylor
Ken Young wrote: This is especially true because if the GTA03 tries to be an iPhone clone, it will be at best a half-assed iPhone clone. The hardware just isn't competitive with an iPhone's. If the GTA03 has QVGA, will it have fast 3G networking? No. Will it have a state-of-the-art

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Raanan Elefant
I third this (if that is even how you say it...) - Original Message From: Robert Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:49:21 PM Subject: Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Mikko Rauhala
ti, 2008-06-10 kello 14:59 -0400, Ken Young kirjoitti: but surely that's just a result of the current buzz - is UI animation really a *necessity* in the long-term (or medium-term) future of the mobile phone market? This is especially true because if the GTA03 tries to be an iPhone clone,

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread David Samblas Martinez
me too --- El mar, 10/6/08, Robert Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: De: Robert Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions Para: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Fecha: martes, 10 junio, 2008

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
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Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:15:53 -0400 Steven Milburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: fyi - that animation of the window popping open and then the pause until it fills - is the application starting up. that is used to cover up the fact it takes 1 or 2 or 3 seconds to start. on the freerunner you just sit