Re: imagine: [a lot of things]

2006-11-22 Thread collin
Quoting Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/22/06 2:38 AM, Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been playing with http://live.gnome.org/GeoClue lately, which is pretty neat stuff. Having a dbus service that has your positition (altitude, velocity, heading, etc) would be a good start

Re: A marketing angle

2006-11-22 Thread Ben F-W
Stefan Schmidt wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 17:12, Ben F-W wrote: Stefan Schmidt wrote: Nothing. It's exactly what FIC want. Could you explain this? How would it benefit FIC for a rival manufacturer to take a program developed for the OpenMoko platform and adjust it to work on

Re: A marketing angle

2006-11-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:34, Ben F-W wrote: Taking account of this, I wonder if it would be possible/useful to be able to 'skin' the user interface? Not just in a visual way, but so that people could switch their phone from operating like a Nokia to operating like a Motorola to a Sony

Re: A marketing angle

2006-11-22 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 21:34, Ben F-W wrote: Stefan Schmidt wrote: Porting the apps from OpenMoko over to Qtopia is a real pita. No new kernel features, X instead of framebuffer, gtk instead of qt. Writing it from scratch seems easier for me. Ah, now I understand what you mean!

Re: A marketing angle

2006-11-22 Thread Michael Lauer
For example - I'm not hearing much about middleware in the OpenMoko API - how different applications can collaborate, create metadata (e.g. for usage-prediction), and share resources or data - I suspect (although I'd love to be wrong) that there isn't much support for such things.

Re: A marketing angle

2006-11-22 Thread Ben F-W
Stefan Schmidt wrote: Ah, now I understand what you mean! Nice. (/me makes another dash on his explain-people-the-open-source-way-of-thinking list). ;) To be fair, we're now some way from your original comment. We've gone from rival companies copying GPL'd programs is exactly what FIC

Maybe two phone calls via 9.6 kbit/s data call possible Re: encrypted phone calls ; )

2006-11-22 Thread Robert Michel
Salve! Robert Michel schrieb am Donnerstag, den 23. November 2006 um 02:11h: But to stopp your/our BT yelling, I will do it already now: Sorry, I wanted to focus on the core potential of this phone and what does me let not sleep? ;) So excuse me - but this idee must be free: If the phone