Hold on chaps.
Every phone I have bought since I started using them (circa 98 - late
starter, I know) has been heavily subsidised or more recently free. In fact
in the UK it is hard to pick up a decent contract (plenty of minutes/texts
and free internet) without getting a free phone. I tried
I also share your concerns. Some years ago I switched from a Motorola phone
to a Nokia phone right because (at that time, at least) the Nokia UI was far
superior in features and intuitiveness. Even today I would never, ever buy a
Motorola! To me, GUI usability is probably the most prominent factor
Hi, about all the UI stuff:
I have never seen an original Motorola UI, everybody I know over here has a
Motorola with Vodafone and Vodafone replaces the UI on each model by it's own,
So the people who have a Nokia/Motorola/BenQ-Siemens all have the same UI if
they have Vodafone (it was the
2007/6/6, Fabien [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
To me, GUI usability is probably the most prominent factor of success in a
product when it comes to sales.
To me, it ought to be, but facts prove that it isn't: I've almost never
heard a marketing speech focused on this (except for iPhone); and if it were
Hold on chaps.
Every phone I have bought since I started using them (circa 98 - late
starter, I know) has been heavily subsidised or more recently free. In
fact
in the UK it is hard to pick up a decent contract (plenty of minutes/texts
and free internet) without getting a free phone. I
I've had a whole series of Sony-Ericsson phones.
Ignoring the smart phones for a second there has been a real progression and
positive trend in their UI's. They certainly have taken on board user
feedback. All of my issues with the K750i were gone in the W880i - right
down to making Text the
We're (hopefully) soon going to have a wonderful device in hand, with
unprecedented capabilities. I don't know well FIC, but they probably don't
have the weight of neither Motorola nor Apple in order to market the product
regardless of its actual performance. So, in order for the Neo to be a
On 6/6/07, Casper van Donderen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you still edit that main panel [...] because the color of choice at
the moment is orange [...]
I think that when we talk about UI, we don't primarily think of skins and
colors: these rather fall in the bells whistle category. What
Hello,
I think somekind of guidelines for developers are needed. Perhaps
FIC could release their own ones, and some external read could help:
Palm guidelines:
http://www.access-company.com/developers/documents/docs/ui/UIGuide_Front.html
Nokia usability site:
2007/6/6, Fabien [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
And I think openmoko can lead to real improvements in this domain, if:
[...]
- some people with the right social skills make the UI improvement effort
run smoothly.
iPhone is fascinating because it's GUI is so responsive and so smooth.
Unfortunately,
Hello,
I am not sure if it is a graphical framework problem after seeing how
smooth Canola[1] is in a Nokia 770 device:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV-HtJcIW-I
best regards,
[1] http://openbossa.indt.org.br/canola/
2007/6/6, Tomasz Zielinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2007/6/6, Fabien [EMAIL
Hi,
An alternative could be DirectFB, it was designed specifically for
embedded systems, there is no overhead with any protocol or other things.
GDK has a DirectFB backend, so there is no problem running GTK+ apps over it.
It isn't easy to say how much the perfomance could improve, but it could
On ke, 2007-06-06 at 14:52 +0200, Tomasz Zielinski wrote:
As we know, much less powered machines (like 7MHz Amiga with Workbench
and even 1MHz C64 with Geos) had enough resources to provide rich and
usable user interface. I mentioned PalmOS some time ago - it executed
programs in-place so most
As I understand it the new GTK mobile initiative will really be focusing on
performance on mobiles. I don't think the software is there yet, or the all
of the hard ware. Personally I'm not too concerned with the speed of the
GUI... yet.
That and it sounds like the next hardware revision will
You asked for it and you got it...
Here is a link to a frontpage slashdot article.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/06/1327238
It links directly to this page
http://www.hothardware.com/image_popup.aspx?image=big_fic2.jpgarticleid=979t=a
Just thought that I would share.
nice picture. That get's me all sorts of excited for the phone.
On 6/6/07, Jonathon Suggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You asked for it and you got it...
Here is a link to a frontpage slashdot article.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/06/1327238
It links directly to this page
Thanks for the link to Rapidobject. Looks like a nice idea. They
charge 1.9euro's per cubic centimeter (31 euro's per cubic inch),
while
techshop.ws charges $10 per cubic inch for 3D printing (plus membership fee
that gets access to lots more tools). They also seem to be in Germany rather
than
On 6/6/07, el jefe delito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hardly think that my parents, or anyone else who may have a passing
interest in a sweet phone, reads Slashdot. My friends don't read it. Even
those who do read Slashdot seem to know little about the phone (read the
comments in the article).
On 6/6/07, Sven Neuhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could just whip one up in a CAD program and make it available at a
3D-printer store like http://www.rapidobject.com/ for everyone to order.
Wow that's a cool service! Is there anything like that in the US?
Hello, All. I'm new. My name is Allan Straub.
Last night, on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert performed a long protest
about how he had not yet been given a free iPhone - something to which he, as a
celebrity, is apparently entitled. The thought struck me that a free Neo1973
running
I can just see it, Stephen Colbert holding up this Commie Pinko phone,
probably built in North Korea, by those anti-American free software
people. Could be quite humorous...
Peter
Hello, All. I'm new. My name is Allan Straub.
Last night, on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert performed a
I agree with everyone's comments so far...
But i'm a big Stephen Colbert fan (i saw the show where he complained)
and it would be a rather LARGE feather in OpenMoko's cap if we could
get one to him before Apple got an iPhone to him.
Even warts and all he could still tout it as the marketplace
Interesting. Can I hear more supportive or counter arguments?
What do the others think?
Depends on the technical bottleneck, which i am in no position to
determine. Is GDK inherently unsufficient too ?
I am very curious about the potential of the webkit gdk qt ports, i
hope to benchmark them
dear list,
with a scheduled delivery date in 2007 I am a wondering what is going on in
terms of software development. If this is at all realistic, the applications
should be operational now. Instead, we read about the UI and its framework
which sounds rather basic to me.
But perhaps there is a
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