Okay -- I see your perspective and I agree but I think people are calling it "a phone" because that's a convenient handle. For my 10 minute test yesterday it worked just like a phone. I dialed, it connected. It rang, I answered. Another 10 minutes and I'd probably know how to answer on the first try! I might even get my own SIM now.
Sharp learning curves are always bad even for geeks. I have a pile of GPS devices that need pretty extensive documentation. For day to day use I get by but if I put one in a box for a couple months I have to have the docs to refresh my memory. Garmin has a new touch screen device now. The UI on my eTrex Vista is well-thought out and implemented especially as a follow-on to having already learned on their earlier eMap. I can usually figure things out without docs. I wonder how they did on the new one. Topic topic??? -- oh right -- the Wiki -- one of these days I will try to work more on the Wiki. I have several of my own and I know how rambling and disconnected they can become. My 2 cents is -- OM should work hard to try to make the text search feature work better (then tell me how they did it). I have used MediaWiki for several years and its built-in text search sucks. Finding an alternative (SwishE or whatever) would be a big step in the right direction but organizing the data is also vital (and quite difficult). If I figure out the magic Mediawiki search silver bullet first then I will share it with OM. Brian On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Steven ** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You misunderstand. A PHONE should need no documentation. The Neo is > more than a phone. So, some features may need some documentation. > But the phone part of it should just work. > > But really, I'm having trouble thinking of a feature I would use > regularly that would be acceptable to require documentation. I hope I > would only need documentation if I'm actually in the code making > changes. > > -Steven _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community