Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-07-13 Thread Ian Darwin
Several weeks ago Sean wrote: I totally agree with your points. Please keep in mind that this was our first design. And that we are using an ID design that simply wasn't made for what this project has become. It was originally designed for a completely different usage scenario. I just came a

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-15 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Well, if that is correct, I think I'll win an award for biggest foot in mouth. Still, 492 + (500 * (1 - defect%)) isn't a very large number. I guess only time will tell. mathew davis wrote: That is very exciting news. I look forward to more from Sean sortly. How did you find that article?

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-15 Thread mathew davis
That is very exciting news. I look forward to more from Sean sortly. How did you find that article? On 6/15/07, Thomas Gstädtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some (pretty good) news: http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2007/06/15/#20070615-gta01-factory-trip 2007/6/15, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-15 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Some (pretty good) news: http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2007/06/15/#20070615-gta01-factory-trip 2007/6/15, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thursday 14 June 2007 23:45:29 Jonathon Suggs wrote: > Well as far as we know (no *official* word) the models (GTA-01) that you > have actually

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 14 June 2007 23:45:29 Jonathon Suggs wrote: > Well as far as we know (no *official* word) the models (GTA-01) that you > have actually are vaporware as far as we are concerned since they are > not going to be mass producing them in favor of rolling out the GTA-02's. Which assuming GTA-

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Ian Darwin
I understand your concern. I have at the moment 2 Neo1973 pre-production handsets in my hand. So if this is vaporware they are *really* going the extra mile to make it look convincing. Is there anything I can do to put your mind at ease? Will photos of opening it help, so you can see it really

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
I was the manager of software architecture for Gibson Audio. And among other things, was responsible for overseeing the software development for the Wurlitzer Digital Jukebox. Despite winning awards at CES as an innovative new product, management couldn't find the sweet spot in terms of man

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Well as far as we know (no *official* word) the models (GTA-01) that you have actually are vaporware as far as we are concerned since they are not going to be mass producing them in favor of rolling out the GTA-02's. Ole Tange wrote: I understand your concern. I have at the moment 2 Neo1973 pr

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Ole Tange
On 6/13/07, Duncan Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: denis wrote: > That is something I would like to know as well. The statement ist not > really clear and seems to be very misterious. I don't know. > In all honesty, has there ever been a really clear statement about this device? I'm beginning

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Robin Paulson
> On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:26, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: >> Gibson Musical Instruments, where we were designing what was >> effectively a custom PDA (don't ask.) guitar tuner? i have to admit, this caught my eye too and set me wondering. i know you said don't ask, butwhat? i'm intrig

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 14 June 2007 13:21:36 Jim Thompson wrote: > parts on them... and the software is mostly done too! > > This is the only worrisome thing to me. Nobody has seen the software. Uhm the SVN is public and people actively run the software in qemu? pgpcczpM28B9b.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 14 June 2007 12:21, Jim Thompson wrote: > Attila Csipa wrote: snip... > >> And wait, and wait. And it never shows up. Then you get back on the > >> phone and eventually you find another parts distributor. Since then, > >> I've started taking delivery dates with a pretty large grain of s

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Jim Thompson
Attila Csipa wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:26, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Gibson Musical Instruments, where we were designing what was effectively a custom PDA (don't ask.) guitar tuner? There were several delays, And wait, and wait. And it never shows up. Then you get back on the pho

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Attila Csipa
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:26, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: > Gibson Musical Instruments, where we were designing what was > effectively a custom PDA (don't ask.) There were several delays, > And wait, and wait. And it never shows up. Then you get back on the > phone and eventually you find another

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-13 Thread Bryan Larsen
Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Dnia środa, 13 czerwca 2007, Werner Almesberger napisał: Shawn Rutledge wrote: What is your favorite hardware and software for doing this? We use our own debug board. You need a special flexible cable to connect to JTAG (*), and our board has the corresponding conne

Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-13 Thread Ortwin Regel
I agree. Different needs should be addressed in different products, not everything put into one device. I understand people wanting an OpenMoko keyboard phone. I don't have any real use for buttons on a touchscreen phone, though. (Other than for gaming.) Ortwin On 6/11/07, Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL P

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-13 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On 6/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's all on the wiki. I beleive there is a page describing how to download and set up the debugger. It's standard gdb (for ARM of course) with the appropriate software (drivers?) for the Neo/USB interface card. I think the USB port shows up

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-13 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia środa, 13 czerwca 2007, Werner Almesberger napisał: > Shawn Rutledge wrote: > > What is your favorite hardware and software for doing this? > > We use our own debug board. You need a special flexible cable to > connect to JTAG (*), and our board has the corresponding connector. Debug board h

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-13 Thread michael
JTAG is basically a way to inspect and/or set each and every register on the processor, not only the registers you're familiar with from a programmer's point of view, but also registers that might hold the state of input and output pins, etc. Also since you can control each register and single ste

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-13 Thread Werner Almesberger
Shawn Rutledge wrote: > used for "system exploration" when there are multiple devices on the > bus. We only have the Samsung MCU in the JTAG chain. > What is your favorite hardware and software for doing this? We use our own debug board. You need a special flexible cable to connect to JTAG (*),

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-13 Thread Shawn Rutledge
Would you post more details about this please? I have used JTAG for programming Atmel micros but am not yet very familiar with how it is used for "system exploration" when there are multiple devices on the bus. What is your favorite hardware and software for doing this? On 6/12/07, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-13 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Duncan... Let me just add to what Sudharshan said... There is a stunning amount of variability in the mobile device supply chain. I used to work for Gibson Musical Instruments, where we were designing what was effectively a custom PDA (don't ask.) There were several delays, including abou

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-13 Thread Sudharshan S
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 09:26 -0400, Duncan Hudson wrote: > In all honesty, has there ever been a really clear statement about this > device? I'm beginning to feel (as was eluded to in others' posts months > ago) that this is vaporware, and that we are just being strung along. > Flame me all

Re: R: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-13 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 13/06/07, Michele Manzato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Seghers Wrote: > Jonathon Suggs wrote > > There will always be complainers, that is just life...ignore them. > > It is, indeed, the complainers that I was commenting on. The one > that I quoted was complaining that stuff was being hidd

Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-13 Thread Duncan Hudson
denis wrote: That is something I would like to know as well. The statement ist not really clear and seems to be very misterious. I don't know. In all honesty, has there ever been a really clear statement about this device? I'm beginning to feel (as was eluded to in others' posts months ago)

R: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-13 Thread Michele Manzato
John Seghers Wrote: > Jonathon Suggs wrote > > There will always be complainers, that is just life...ignore them. > > It is, indeed, the complainers that I was commenting on. The one > that I quoted was complaining that stuff was being hidden from us > because FIC is working on new specs and hasn

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-12 Thread michael
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Joe Friedrichsen wrote: On 6/12/07, Rod Whitby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OpenMoko (the registered organisation, separate from FIC the company who is creating the first piece of hardware designed for the OpenMoko software) never promised open hardware. They promised

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-12 Thread Rod Whitby
Joe Friedrichsen wrote: > Given that this phone is meant to be opened and tinkered with I'm not sure that that is actually the case. (Sean, please correct me if I am wrong in the following - I will be pleasantly surprised if you are able to do so). Yes, the OpenMoko software is meant to be fully

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Joe Friedrichsen
Michele Manzato wrote: Don't get me wrong, I can guess (some of) the reasons behind the plain words. But then I wonder whether there is really any transparency in the development of Neo/OpenMoko? I can sympathize with you to an extent. I fully support the concept and goal of OpenMoko. If I didn

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-12 Thread Werner Almesberger
Joe Friedrichsen wrote: > Yes, most of the hardware designs and schematics aren't distributed, Actually, I hope that we can release at least schematics of the debug board and the immediate surroundings of the MCU. There seems to be a lot of red tape surrounding all this, though :-( > but there ar

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-12 Thread Joe Friedrichsen
On 6/12/07, Rod Whitby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OpenMoko (the registered organisation, separate from FIC the company who is creating the first piece of hardware designed for the OpenMoko software) never promised open hardware. They promised open software (the OpenMoko software, which is being

OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-12 Thread Rod Whitby
kenneth marken wrote: > but the neo seems to be designed from day one to be made from virtually > of the shelf parts. FIC is just the hired factory (like how apple do for > their stuff or microsoft does for the xbox's), they hold no copyright or > patent on the neo iirc. so if FIC comes up short, o

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread kenneth marken
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Milan Votava writes: You are all going to become slaves of capitalists (Sean on behalf of FIC). Better to support guys from xda-developers.com (like cr2) to make machines like HTC Universal a real free phones Better to work on a machine in spite of the manufacturer ra

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Milan Votava writes: > >1/ 99% of this thread is about an unrealistic things to be >implemented on a non existent (underpowered) device. Who in the World >cares about things being discussed in this thread? People wants to >use their pones, to make calls, send sms/mms/emails. I'm being tired >to

RE: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Milan Votava writes: >You are all going to become slaves of capitalists (Sean on behalf of FIC). > >Better to support guys from xda-developers.com (like cr2) to make >machines like HTC Universal a real free phones Better to work on a machine in spite of the manufacturer rather than with the m

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Robin Paulson
On 6/13/07, Milan Votava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (sorry for my english) I'm subscribed for this this thread for about 6m now. I don't want to be rude but: why so long? you must be interested or you would have long since left 1/ 99% of this thread is about an unrealistic things to be why

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 01:42 schrieb Robin Paulson: > > are we duplicating work? familiar is 6+ years old, i'm sure they must > have some good ideas that can be used? maybe we can make openmoko a > fork from their project? > Robin, please read down to the bottom of the status page. All moder

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Robin Paulson
damn, wrong address, sorry oleg. repost. twice can someone at openmoko fix the auto-generated reply-to fields on this mailing-list? every time this gets me On 6/13/07, Oleg Gusev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HTC phones are commodity hardware that anybody can buy right here and right now. Linux on

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Milan Votava
(sorry for my english) I'm subscribed for this this thread for about 6m now. I don't want to be rude but: 1/ 99% of this thread is about an unrealistic things to be implemented on a non existent (underpowered) device. Who in the World cares about things being discussed in this thread? People

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 00:31 schrieb Steven **: > > Seems like xda-developers.com is focused on reverse engineering cell > phones. Specifically because the company that made those phones wouldn't > give them the information. And that's better than FIC how? > HTC phones are commodity hardware

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Milan Votava
(correction) Because is clear who is a foe and who is a friend Sorry, you are already too blinded to understand... At 00:31 13.6.2007, Steven ** wrote: Seems like xda-developers.com is focused on reverse engineering cell phones.  Specifically because the company that made those phones wouldn

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Milan Votava
Becose is clear who is a foe and who is a friend Sorry you are to blinded to understand... At 00:31 13.6.2007, Steven ** wrote: Seems like xda-developers.com is focused on reverse engineering cell phones.  Specifically because the company that made those phones wouldn't give them the informa

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Steven **
Seems like xda-developers.com is focused on reverse engineering cell phones. Specifically because the company that made those phones wouldn't give them the information. And that's better than FIC how? FIC is giving us the information! How is that bad? -Steven On 6/12/07, Milan Votava <[EMAIL

RE: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Milan Votava
You are all going to become slaves of capitalists (Sean on behalf of FIC). Better to support guys from xda-developers.com (like cr2) to make machines like HTC Universal a real free phones Milan At 22:51 12.6.2007, you wrote: Jonathon Suggs wrote > However, suggesting that people > shoul

RE: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread John Seghers
Jonathon Suggs wrote > However, suggesting that people > shouldn't be expressing their interests about features no matter how > niche/picky/whatever is just plain wrong. I specifically said, in my summary paragraph: >>By all means give them feedback, tell them your desires, etc. But please >>don

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Jonathon Suggs
First, the mailing list is to be used for ideas and communication. You are absolutely correct that FIC will have to make the final decisions about what is and isn't included. However, suggesting that people shouldn't be expressing their interests about features no matter how niche/picky/whate

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Christopher Tokarczyk
I agree definitely with the parts that I excerpted below from what John said, and would further like to point out what I personally see as one of the major strengths of this project: To show the world and other device makers that there can be a market for open mobile devices/phones. Of course this

Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread John Seghers
> Michele Manzato wrote: > > Don't get me wrong, I can guess (some of) the reasons behind the plain > words. But then I wonder whether there is really any transparency in the > development of Neo/OpenMoko? One of the things I've seen while lurking on the list is the propensity for people to want

Re: R: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-12 Thread Peter A Trotter
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Sean Moss-Pultz Inviato: lunedì 11 giugno 2007 19.01 A: Miguel A. Torres Cc: community@lists.openmoko.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics > [snip] > > Believe me when I say that we are working on new stu

R: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-12 Thread Michele Manzato
rg; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics > [snip] > > Believe me when I say that we are working on new stuff that will > address these issues. I have been quiet for the past few months > because of some major internal re-allocations and new events. > Withi

Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 11 June 2007 19:00:42 Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > I totally agree with your points. Please keep in mind that this was > our first design. And that we are using an ID design that simply > wasn't made for what this project has become. It was originally > designed for a completely different us

Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-11 Thread Tomasz Zielinski
2007/6/11, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Believe me when I say that we are working on new stuff that will address these issues. I have been quiet for the past few months because of some major internal re-allocations and new events. Within about a month we should be more or less finished a

Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-11 Thread denis
Krzysztof Kajkowski schrieb: > 2007/6/11, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Believe me when I say that we are working on new stuff that will >> address these issues. I have been quiet for the past few months >> because of some major internal re-allocations and new events. Within >> about a

Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-11 Thread Krzysztof Kajkowski
2007/6/11, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Believe me when I say that we are working on new stuff that will address these issues. I have been quiet for the past few months because of some major internal re-allocations and new events. Within about a month we should be more or less finished a

Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-11 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Sean Moss-Pultz writes: > >On Jun 11, 2007, at 6:36 AM, Miguel A. Torres wrote: >> >> * Integrated keyboard and directional pads are not mere luxuries, >> but necessities. They allow for safe one hand operation while >> reducing touchscreen stress. Touchscreens are fragile (get >> scratched e

Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-11 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
[I'm CC'ing the community list because there's lots of points here that go well beyond hardware.] On Jun 11, 2007, at 6:36 AM, Miguel A. Torres wrote: Hi, Like many of you, I'm following the project with great enthusiasm. This will surely demonstrate companies in the sector that open sou