Re: OpenMoko - We Need HYPE, and we need it yesterday!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florent THIERY said the following on 05/06/07 00:33: > I mean, a neo looks like a great device, but so far it's mainly a > regular "smartphone"; if the project continues to improve, one day the > neo will do what linux is best at: full network integrat

Re: OpenMoko - We Need HYPE, and we need it yesterday!

Jim Thompson wrote: > Comments don't sell phones, applications do. > > Once we have functional hardware, we can create better software, and the > combination of these is far better than any amount of hype or PR. Agreed. The iPhone will be available in about a month with a selection of polished an

Apple iPhone ads

Apple have released a few ads for their OpenMoko competitor, the locked down iPhone. Direct links: http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/iphone/how_to/apple-iphone-how_to_640x496.mov http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/iphone/never_been/apple-iphone-never_been_640x496.mov http://movies.app

Re: Neo1973 Update!

Florent THIERY wrote: > Just a thought: on macbooks, apple uses the hard drive's acceleration > sensors (normally, safety function) as input device. Wanna tilt your > neo? :) Someone wrote a programme that'll emit star wars light saber noises when you swing your laptop around. It'd be cool to have

Re: information efficient text enty using dasher

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Flemming Richter Mikkelsen said the following on 30/05/07 14:21: > Just one more thing > > On my laptop I have this little joystick button in the middle of the > keyboard. If we could get a button like that on the side of the neo > phone, dasher w

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

el jefe delito said the following on 01/05/07 15:03: > Video would be a bit essential I would think... if an iPod can do it, > shouldn't a mini computerphone be able to? AFAIK the video iPods have hardware decoding chips, so the iPod isn't decoding the video. Which is why they can only play certa

Re: OpenMoko light web server

Matthew S. Hamrick said the following on 16/04/07 18:11: > At first people rejected the idea as being "silly." I mean seriously, > why would you ever want to put a web server on an embedded device, right? One of the advantages of web applications vs desktop applications is that you can make some k