Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Sergio Bessa

Just a comment abou Jabber usage.

As most of you might know there are transports that make it possible to 
connect to MSN / ICQ  through Jabber and that is being used by 
several companies to leverage IM services compatible with legacy systems.
I'm currently working with one myself :) I'm using Ejabberd as a Jabber 
server and have PyMSNt allowing our users to connect to their MSN 
contacts through our service.
What if we could have Jabber support in OpenMoko and use some sort of 
transport/relay to connect to legacy protocols? Don't you think this 
would work? This way wwe only needed one protocol implementation.


Regards,

Sergio Bessa

Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote:

Hi,

I just wanted to chime in on the discussion about IM support and text 
messaging in general. For clarity's sake I'll start a new thread with a 
relevant subject line.


First of all I'd like to say that, at least here in Finland integrated IM 
protocol support would be the killer application for a mobile phone. IM is 
pretty much ubiquitous among young people here, with MSN and IRC as the two 
major protocols used.
  That said, just slapping some kind of IM support onto a touchscreen phone 
isn't going to automatically turn it into the next must-have gadget. In fact, 
I'd daresay that people will have pretty steep expectations for something 
like this. Such as:


On the feature side:
 - Integration so that the used network platform becomes a minor detail and
   messages are organised in more relevant ways (as mentioned in this list
   earlier).
 - A UI which scales to a considerably higher number of messages and a
   considerably higher frequency of messaging events in comparison to current
   phones.
 - Support for as many messaging protocols as possible. (Jabber is nice, but
   in the real world no-one uses it and they most certainly aren't going to
   switch. I'd quess that the most important protocols are SMS, e-mail, MSN,
   IRC and AOL/ICQ, with Skype, Jabber/GoogleTalk and MMS being a bit
   less important)

On the input side:
 - An on-screen qwerty keyboard for two-thumb input in landscape orientation
 - A traditional on-screen phone keypad for one-thumb input in portrait
   orientation
 - Clear visual feedback of each keypress on both keyboards (the iPhone-style
   of showing a bigger pop-up above the button just pressed is a good starting
   point, possibly accompanied by some kind of halo effect)
 - A touchscreen and cpu which can keep up with kids' fingers (meaning
   something like 3-5 keypresses/second all with instant visual feedback)


P.S. Sorry about the earlier double posts. It seems that GMail has implemented 
a nifty new feature which silently deletes all incoming messages which have 
been sent through the same GMail account. (Thus meaning that the only way to 
see if my mails actually reach the list is to search through the archives or 
wait for someone to answer them)


  



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Re: Wikipedia update :) Re: We have alread 9 languages! :) Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Sergio Bessa

OpenMoko in Portuguese

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMoko

Regards,

Sergio

Robert Michel wrote:

Salve Krzysztof!

Great!

Krzysztof Kajkowski schrieb am Mittwoch, den 31. Januar 2007 um 22:03h:

  

2007/1/31, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Please all visit:
http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Translation
and add your name when you like to join.
  


Polnish seems to get a strong support :)

  

I deceided to volunteer to do some polish translation. I translated several
applications, my english is quite good (I use it all the time at work) and I
think I manage ;)

I also created polish wikipedia page: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMoko



Great now we do have OpenMoko in 9 languages in the wikipedia:

[[da:OpenMoko]]
[[de:OpenMoko]]
[[en:OpenMoko]]
[[es:OpenMoko]]
[[fr:OpenMoko]]
[[it:Openmoko]] - does this realy exist, please check...
[[nl:OpenMoko]]
[[pl:OpenMoko]]
[[ru:OpenMoko]]

I have updated the other languages links.

*wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo1973 
Also every language has now a Redirectto OpenMoko.

#REDIRECT [[OpenMoko]]_

And to giving a litle back to FIC, we could translate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_International_Computer 
as well :)






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OpenMoko - Giving away ideas?

2007-01-16 Thread Sergio Bessa

Hi,

I was wondering what ou guys think about someone using the ideas 
collected at http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Ideas
What if some big company, such as the one who announced a new phone last 
week, gets some of these ideas and registers them?


Sorry if I'm just making some irrelevant 'noise'

Sérgio Bessa

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