On 4/16/08, Justyn Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On 15/04/2008, Carlo E. Prelz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > QWERTY keyboards and appropriate cases are, I believe, produced > > already, and can be subcontracted. There is no surprise in a QWERTY > > keyboard. > > > > There was also FIC's plan to produce *a number* of devices, based on > > the hardware that is currently being finalized. I hope that one of > > them will be a device with a real keyboard, and I think it appropriate > > for me to show that there is support for such a device. > > It would be great to see the next generation of Openmoko hardware fork > into two devices to help satisfy the more opposing types of > requirements from the community. > > One could perhaps be as small as possible, and lower cost. The other > might go for extra features like a keyboard, camera, two sim cards > etc.
I assume they don't want to redesign the whole layout. I understood that implementing dual sim support would be too much work, because it is not as trivial as I thought. A keypad would result in a lot of case design issues. I think camera + 3G would be doable and I would be happy with that. And maybe also an IR transmitter (so we can use it as an remote control) and other stuff like a thermistor would be easy to implement. I will add this to my neo when I get it:) -- Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Join the FSF as an Associate Member at: <URL:http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=5774>
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