Re: How about a slim Openmoko design?

2007-08-22 Thread Jørgen P. Tjernø
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dev Anand wrote: Moto Razr was slim and even slimmer on features but caught on because of the design. If one could have the openness of openmoko and make it a slim elegant design it will be a killer. What say? FIC/OpenMoko has said they will

Re: How about a slim Openmoko design?

2007-08-22 Thread Jeff Andros
On 8/18/07, Dev Anand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moto Razr was slim and even slimmer on features but caught on because of the design. If one could have the openness of openmoko and make it a slim elegant design it will be a killer. What say? I like the idea of going slim for future devices,

Re: How about a slim Openmoko design?

2007-08-22 Thread Dev Anand
Open Source = Choice, Freedom, Alive Slim Design = EDCability ( and currently lack of features) Open Source + Slim Design = Choice, Freedom, Alive and EDC The problem with my current phone's software is that I am stuck with what I bought. I cannot use applications other than what was shipped

Re: How about a slim Openmoko design?

2007-08-22 Thread Shawn Rutledge
I think less PDA is the wrong direction to go with this product. Future versions ought to be more iPhone-like in form factor (as slim as they can make it, and frameless or at least nearly, with a high ratio of screen real estate to overall size). As for hardware hacking, I doubt that most of us

Re: How about a slim Openmoko design?

2007-08-22 Thread ian douglas
Shawn Rutledge wrote: A lot of people say they want a plain old telephone without so many features, but it doesn't seem very interesting to me, and I'm not sure if they really want that either I've used various cell phones since 1996 and now seeing that it's nearly impossible to buy a phone

Re: How about a slim Openmoko design?

2007-08-22 Thread Dev Anand
I think by Slim Design = EDCability ( and currently lack of features) I may have *mistakenly* suggested that I would be happy with a compromise on features. No, quite on the contrary what I wanted to suggest was to have all the features in as small dense elegant package as possible. But,

How about a slim Openmoko design?

2007-08-20 Thread Dev Anand
Moto Razr was slim and even slimmer on features but caught on because of the design. If one could have the openness of openmoko and make it a slim elegant design it will be a killer. What say? ___ OpenMoko community mailing list