Re: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko

2007-09-29 Thread Mohammed Musallam
I second that! - Original Message From: Pius A. Uzamere II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: List for OpenMoko community discussion Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 8:47:03 PM Subject: Re: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko IMHO, that's

Re: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko

2007-09-28 Thread Giles Jones
On 29 Sep 2007, at 01:47, Pius A. Uzamere II wrote: Once you put a crappy form factor into the market, however, you're typically finished in the long term. Remember, your competitors can iterate their software faster than you can iterate your form factor once units are put into producti

RE: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko

2007-09-28 Thread Mikko Rauhala
pe, 2007-09-28 kello 19:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: > In my humble opinion, and I know I'm going to take a lot of arrows for > this, FIC needs to halt the GTA02 work and re-form factor the design to > have a larger, glass protected screen. > > There is only about a six month window here

Re: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko

2007-09-28 Thread Pius A. Uzamere II
IMHO, that's just the sort of sentiment that, if embraced by FIC, will guarantee that this phone is not successful. If a phone ships with a closed or otherwise flawed stack, a fix is just a firmware update away. Once you put a crappy form factor into the market, however, you're typically finished

Re: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko

2007-09-28 Thread Mike
Richard Reichenbacher wrote: That's not what he meant and you know it. He meant more useable space on the screen. More pixels == "more usable space on the screen". (?) A screen with less pixels has less "usable space on the screen". Even if it's diagonal size is bigger. ___

RE: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko

2007-09-28 Thread Richard Reichenbacher
ut is text input and they'll be golden. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 5:09 PM To: community Subject: Re: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko

2007-09-28 Thread Mike
Mike wrote: IMO the neo isn't and should be trying to be schnazzy, I think you're er meant "isn't and shouldn't be" ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko

2007-09-28 Thread Giles Jones
On 29 Sep 2007, at 00:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very true, BUT... and this is a big but FIC or some other smart manufacturer has to clone the iPhone's form factor details and performance points. I have lived with my iPhone now for a few weeks and I simply LOVE it. I bought TW

Re: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko

2007-09-28 Thread Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my humble opinion, and I know I'm going to take a lot of arrows for this, FIC needs to halt the GTA02 work and re-form factor the design to have a larger, glass protected screen. The neo's screen is already bigger- it has more pixels. In any case, the neo isn't ab

RE: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones likeOpenMoko

2007-09-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ap an OSS stack on it (QTopia?) and I'd like to see FIC/OpenMoko be the first out of the gate. Alan Original Message: - From: Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:12:05 -0400 To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Apple's heavy hand an opportun