There was a video showing Maddog Hall wearing one around his neck.
Besides I found the design very stylish.
The usual route of conversation goes like this:
whats this...?
me: openmoko
... takes it like iphone...
me: it's not an iphone...
touchscreen...
me: and it runs on linux
..? and i
i had a similar conversation at radio shack trying to get the headset
to phono adapter. i had put the phone on the counter to test if the
wire worked.
radio shack employee 1: is that the new htc?
me: nope
radio shack employee 1: what is it
me: its an openmoko. it runs linux
radio shack employee
I think that is little heavy for my neck?
Mile
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
mic...@vanille-media.de wrote:
It has been designed for the asian market, where it's pretty fashionable to
hold your phone with a strap around the neck.
:M:
Hi ,
some of my collegues at work ask why the neo looks like a beer opener .
Was this part of the design ?
Cheerio's
Blokkie
PS: where should the stylus be inserted ? In the empty beer bottle ?
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PS: where should the stylus be inserted ?
on the left hand side there is a small hole, just above the speaker.
You can insert the stylus there, but it might take considerable force.
Kind regards,
Ed
In the empty beer bottle ?
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it would be nice hardware mod
might catch on in the land of beer...
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:41 PM, blokkie blok...@h0m3.be wrote:
Hi ,
some of my collegues at work ask why the neo looks like a beer opener .
Was this part of the design ?
Cheerio's
Blokkie
PS: where should the
some of my collegues at work ask why the neo looks like a beer opener .
Was this part of the design ?
nope. the busboy fell down the stairs and nobody noticed until after
several hundreds of units were produced already.
PS: where should the stylus be inserted ? In the empty beer bottle ?
Ed Kapitein wrote:
SNIP
PS: where should the stylus be inserted ?
on the left hand side there is a small hole, just above the speaker.
You can insert the stylus there, but it might take considerable force.
Kind regards,
Ed
In the empty beer bottle ?
Someone asked me if it was a
It has been designed for the asian market, where it's pretty fashionable to
hold your phone with a strap around the neck.
:M:
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Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2009 16:32:17 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer:
It has been designed for the asian market, where it's pretty fashionable to
hold your phone with a strap around the neck.
Although I'm not from Asia, I like the design. It's not like all the other
fancy mobiles with.. ehh...
blokkie wrote:
some of my collegues at work ask why the neo looks like a beer opener .
Was this part of the design ?
Seems that those designers didn't get out much - they missed this
obvious feature.
As far as I know, the case design predates Openmoko. I've heard that
it was originally made
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