Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2008-06-27 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Friday 27 June 2008, Aditya Chadha wrote: [snip] But why? Nokia bought Symbian and open-sourced it (http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/nokia_takes_i ni.html). So, why not develop for that? I will admi that I have a strong bias here, but: The Symbian API is not

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2008-06-26 Thread Aditya Chadha
I broke down and bought GTA01, too many issues and the phone was pretty much unusable as a phone. They've changed over to using Qtopia now for the default interface though, and hopefully solved their GSM bugs but the whole process is very very design-by-committee and hence sucky. I hope FreeRunner

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2008-06-25 Thread Thaths
On Mon, Jul 9, 2007 at 12:58 PM, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone seen/used one of the FIC 1973 / OpenMoko phones? It sounds like a very viable alternative to the closed apple/att hell. Looks like non-developer devices have started shipping:

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2008-06-25 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 9, 2007 at 12:58 PM, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone seen/used one of the FIC 1973 / OpenMoko phones? It sounds like a very viable alternative to the closed apple/att hell. Looks like non-developer

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2007-07-10 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
OpenMoko and H.323 or SIP - now that's something. Cheeni On 7/10/07, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone seen/used one of the FIC 1973 / OpenMoko phones? It sounds like a very viable alternative to the closed apple/att hell. Cheers, Aditya On 7/9/07, VaibhaV Sharma [EMAIL

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2007-07-10 Thread Aditya Chadha
On 7/10/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenMoko and H.323 or SIP - now that's something. Cheeni No WiFi in v1 of the FIC1973 (GTA01), which limits VoIP capabilities... Still a nice phone to hack on. Apparently, the touchscreen is super-high rez - and you 'need to see it to

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2007-07-10 Thread Gautam John
On 7/10/07, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No WiFi in v1 of the FIC1973 (GTA01), which limits VoIP capabilities And no camera either. Like the iPhone, I'll wait for version 2. -Gautam

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2007-07-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:48:38PM +0530, Gautam John wrote: On 7/10/07, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No WiFi in v1 of the FIC1973 (GTA01), which limits VoIP capabilities And no camera either. Like the iPhone, I'll wait for version 2. I'm also waiting for October. I'm also

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2007-07-10 Thread Tim Bray
[BTW, hello all, been lurking for a while] It's not clear whether to hack on the phone you need to get the debug board and also not clear what kind of computer/OS combination you can plug that board into. So I sent OpenMoko a question a couple days ago. No answer yet. Agreed that this is a

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2007-07-10 Thread Chris Kantarjiev
On 7/10/07, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No WiFi in v1 of the FIC1973 (GTA01), which limits VoIP capabilities And no camera either. Like the iPhone, I'll wait for version 2. And 2.5G cell radio, so it will be as slow as the iPhone access that people complain about. (And the

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2007-07-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:08:23AM -0700, Chris Kantarjiev wrote: And no camera either. Like the iPhone, I'll wait for version 2. I hope for a camera in v2. 2 MPixels would be nice. And 2.5G cell radio, so it will be as slow as the iPhone access that GSM is okay. EDGE would have been