Re: community Digest, Vol 11, Issue 32: Re: keyboard, please! (Wil Chung)

2007-01-24 Thread quixote
I think I've had a change of heart. Ted Lemon and Joe Pfeiffer (and maybe others? I don't really know how to use these mailing lists well.) pointed out that a folding, separate keyboard could be the way to go. After a bit of thought, I decided they're right. Keep the phone just the way it

keyboard, please!

2007-01-23 Thread quixote
I'm a (future) user, and this phone is what I've been waiting for in so many ways. Except one. No option to buy one with a qwerty keyboard. Please, please, please re-think that. I have to do a lot of writing and emailing while away from my main computer, and the lack of a keyboard

Re: keyboard, please!

2007-01-23 Thread Mikko Rauhala
ti, 2007-01-23 kello 08:37 -0800, quixote kirjoitti: I'm a (future) user, and this phone is what I've been waiting for in so many ways. Except one. No option to buy one with a qwerty keyboard. Please, please, please re-think that. [...] How do other people feel about this? I feel

No problem - connect it via USB or Bluetooth Re: keyboard, please!

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Michel
Salve quixote! On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, quixote wrote: It could be relatively easy to add a keyboard if it was simply an added hinged component, i.e. you had much the same shape, but it would be twice as thick (and heavy) for those of us desperate to have keyboards, and it would open on the

Re: keyboard, please!

2007-01-23 Thread Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
for in so many ways. Except one. No option to buy one with a qwerty keyboard. Please, please, please re-think that. I have to do a lot of writing and emailing while away from my main computer, and the lack of a keyboard is a showstopper for me. I remember seeing one earlier comment on the same topic

Re: keyboard, please!

2007-01-23 Thread Wil Chung
for in so many ways. Except one. No option to buy one with a qwerty keyboard. Please, please, please re-think that. [...] How do other people feel about this? I feel that it is futile at this point to ask for them to re-think nontrivial design issues. What would be less futile is to make

Re: keyboard, please!

2007-01-23 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 23, 2007, at 9:37 AM, quixote wrote: How do other people feel about this? I think it'd be a nice variant, but I'm glad it's not in the base model. Bear in mind that there are some bitchen' bluetooth keyboards out there, like the ThinkOutside stowaway sierra. Depending on your

Re: keyboard, please!

2007-01-23 Thread Carlo E. Prelz
Subject: Re: keyboard, please! Date: Tue 23 Jan 07 11:14:30AM -0600 Quoting Wil Chung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I vote for touchscreen interfaces only, and feel that openmoko is going in the right direction w/ the current design. We keyboard fans have been told on this list

Re: keyboard, please!

2007-01-23 Thread Wil Chung
Haha. Well, I'd be interested to see how FIC pleases both crowds. Two separate models seem expensive to develop and design. Perhaps not? We'll have to wait til Q3/4 then. Wilhelm On 1/23/07, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: keyboard, please! Date: Tue