Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-20 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 20, 2007, at 2:31 AM, Santiago Crespo wrote: I like the spanish term: "libre" (like in ubuntu cd-box). It's not a bad word, but unfortunately when I hear it I get an image of a guy wearing army fatigues and carrying an automatic weapon. To some extent I think choosing a branding th

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-20 Thread Santiago Crespo
El lun, 16-07-2007 a las 13:10 -0400, Ian Darwin escribió: > Calling it "the free(d) phone" to consumers (as opposed to developers) > is going to engender an enormous amount of confusion and ill-will. > Call it something else in the consumer market. The Flexible Phone. The > Does-what-you-want-

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 17, 2007, at 12:59 AM, ramsesoriginal wrote: "Teh ub3rz h4ck70r7 Ph0n3!!11oneeleven" Perfect. :') Honestly, I don't think this is something that one needs to worry about. What's going to happen if OpenMoko really becomes usable is that various vendors will adopt it in markets th

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Robin Paulson writes: > >it's nothing to do with gmail. the reply-to field has not been set on >the openmoko mail server, so replies to messages default to the >sender. this is fine in most cases, but not on mailing lists This has been discussed to death in the past, with no consensus on what prop

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Giles Jones
Digger Vermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Just oPhone > > I've always dislike the I and My stuff. Not even sure it should be branded as just a phone. Always preferred the communicator label myself :) --- G O Jones ___ OpenMoko community mail

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Luit van Drongelen
oPhone sounds great too... but not this oPhone: http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=79996a20-e2de-4757-8d22-dfc5a44acfc7 -- Luit On 7/17/07, digger vermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:59 +0200, ramsesoriginal wrote: > "The Open Phone" > "Our Phone" Just oPhone I'v

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread digger vermont
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:59 +0200, ramsesoriginal wrote: > "The Open Phone" > "Our Phone" Just oPhone I've always dislike the I and My stuff. digger ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/l

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Jim Paris
> p.s. i hate the way gmail handles this list. couldn't we have the respond-to > adress set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having the list server change the reply-to header is wrong. Please read http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful I don't use Gmail, but a quick google search tells me

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik
On 13:25:09 2007-07-17 "Robin Paulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/17/07, Mikko Rauhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ti, 2007-07-17 kello 09:59 +0200, ramsesoriginal kirjoitti: > > > p.s. i hate the way gmail handles this list. couldn't we have the > > > respond-to adress set to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Robin Paulson
On 7/17/07, Mikko Rauhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ti, 2007-07-17 kello 09:59 +0200, ramsesoriginal kirjoitti: > p.s. i hate the way gmail handles this list. couldn't we have the > respond-to adress set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hate gmail and complain to them all you want, please don't imply the l

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Mikko Rauhala
ti, 2007-07-17 kello 09:59 +0200, ramsesoriginal kirjoitti: > p.s. i hate the way gmail handles this list. couldn't we have the > respond-to adress set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hate gmail and complain to them all you want, please don't imply the list should be broken because of that. I shan't continu

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread ramsesoriginal
"The Open Phone" "Our Phone" "The Human Phone" (ok, sounds a bit like Ubuntu) "Free your Phone" (wich obviously is not the same as "The free phone". It sounds good, and is already used in the youtube ads) "More then a Phone" "Phone++" "The Phone from people to people" "The Freedom Phone" "Teh ub3r

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts -> unleash

2007-07-16 Thread Giles Jones
On 16 Jul 2007, at 22:13, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On 7/16/07, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unleash your phone. Neo 1973 : phone - and more OpenMoko : not just a phone Neo 1973 - The phone you truly own. ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts -> unleash

2007-07-16 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On 7/16/07, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unleash your phone. Neo 1973 : phone - and more OpenMoko : not just a phone -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts -> unleash

2007-07-16 Thread Eric Smith
Unleash your phone. Original Message Shawn Rutledge on Mon-16-Jul 07 8:24PM > >A consumer ad campaign is NOT the place to push the "free as in beer vs > >free as in speech" argument. The phrase "free phone" already means the > >opposite of what we want it to mean. It's done, finished, over. Move

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Shawn Rutledge
I thought of that too but don't see it as a problem. Still seems like a euphonious name to me. On 7/16/07, Marc-Olivier Barre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/16/07, Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone? > First thing I thought about when I saw yo

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Tim Newsom
OK.. Great minds think alike... Or maybe not. /grin On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:11, Shawn Rutledge wrote: How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone? On 7/16/07, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I completely agree. My idea is to make two advertisment campains: one on "maisntream media": may

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 16 July 2007 20:24:18 Shawn Rutledge wrote: > How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone? > u is often short for the Greek letter \mu (in Latex notation) which in turn is used as a sign for micro in many places. That may confuse people as it might mean microphone then? pgpPDRRoFs3Pl.pgp

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Marc-Olivier Barre
On 7/16/07, Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone? First thing I thought about when I saw youPhone was youTube... it seems a bit to obvious, sorry. __ Marc-Olivier Barre. ___ OpenMoko comm

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Shawn Rutledge
How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone? On 7/16/07, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I completely agree. My idea is to make two advertisment campains: one on > "maisntream media": maybe tv, maybe radio, flyre, poster, newspapers, > wathever. This ads would be something like: "The free

Re: Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Vincent
On 16/07/07, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I completely agree. My idea is to make two advertisment campains: one on > "maisntream media": maybe tv, maybe radio, flyre, poster, newspapers, > wathever. This ads would be something like: "The free phone, OpenMoko. > The only one with ...

Not "the free phone" (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Ian Darwin
I completely agree. My idea is to make two advertisment campains: one on "maisntream media": maybe tv, maybe radio, flyre, poster, newspapers, wathever. This ads would be something like: "The free phone, OpenMoko. The only one with " "The OpenMoko: now with builtin navigator" and so on.