Re: applied sci-fi (was Re: New Open Hardware company)

2009-07-25 Thread pike
Hi


 Okay, that's a far-out idea. Something closer to home: if you don't need
 video telephony, you don't need rapidly updating color images. So, put
 e-paper into those phones. Maybe even the well-established grayscale type.
 It probably still updates quickly enough that you could even doodle on it.

I've been trying to prepare my openmoko as a
'hitchhiker guide to the galaxy' - using
the lonely planet in pdf format. but it
didnt really cut edge :-/

 I've always been amazed by the 1-on-1 nature
 of phone calls.
 
 Oh, that's been solved already. Even GSM supports multi-party calls.
 

strange, i've never seen it in day-to-day usage.
can't do it on my phone afaik ?

 'ok sue, lets ask him - tuut - hi 
 john, its sue and dan here, we had a question' 
 
 'how did you do that, dan ? oh, i've an open phone'.


cu
*-pike

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Re: applied sci-fi (was Re: New Open Hardware company)

2009-07-25 Thread Werner Almesberger
pike wrote:
 strange, i've never seen it in day-to-day usage.
 can't do it on my phone afaik ?

It's certainly one of the more obscure features :) You should be
able to use it by making the first call, then call the next party
and join the calls, and so on. Not sure if any of the Openmoko
distros support this.

- Werner

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