Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-25 Thread Ivo Anjo
Heh, just chiming in to say, the freerunner packs a bit alright (especially in terms of ram), but you shouldn't compare processor frequencies (Mhz) directly, because it's definitely not comparable -- for example if I disabled one of the two cores of my current generation cpu, and clocked it at 400M

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-25 Thread Michele Renda
10 years ago (1997) I bought my first pc ( Cyrix 133 MHz - 16 Mb ram - 2 Gb HD - 1Mb video ram) and it costed 2000 Euro (and when it was they valued a bit more than today). I think a 400Mhz FreeRunner look a bit better :) Maybe someone was referring to how the Freerunner is *more* powerful tha

Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-25 Thread Mark
Ajit Natarajan ajitk at email.com wrote on Sat May 24 10:09:33 CEST 2008: -- >It would be great if someone who has used or is otherwise aware of the >feature sets of the Freerunner, HTC, and other smart phones to compare >and contr

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-25 Thread Federico Lorenzi
Quite amusing that there is an HTC Magician :) import hat, animals, threading, typing def type_(): while true: typing.typerandom() def pullhat(animal): hat.pull(animal) if __name__ == "__main__": threading.Thread(target=type_).start() pullhat(animals.rabbit) There :) On

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-25 Thread Flyin_bbb8
it seems like there are a couple of magicians around here :) On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:36 AM, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you can pull a rabbit out of a hat whilst typing on a normal > keyboard you are indeed a magician! > ___ Openmoko communit

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread john
If you can pull a rabbit out of a hat whilst typing on a normal keyboard you are indeed a magician! 2008/5/24 Federico Lorenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> If you can type as fast on a touch screen as I can on a properly sized thumb >> keyboard, you are a magician. > If you can type on a properly size

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Federico Lorenzi
> If you can type as fast on a touch screen as I can on a properly sized thumb > keyboard, you are a magician. If you can type on a properly sized thumb keyboard, as quickly as I can on a fold up bluetooth keyboard, then you are a magician. And if I can type as quickly on a fold up bluetooth keybo

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Robert Taylor
Steven Le Roux wrote: and we are talking about a "phone"... so the camera... is clearly NOT a priority for a first phone;.. fortunately there is no keyboard ;) ! or where's the point with the touchscreen... -- Steven Le Roux Jabber-ID : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Robert Taylor
Steven Le Roux wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Federico Lorenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Al Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Comparing with the FreeRunner hardware wiki page:

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Robert Taylor
Ajit Natarajan wrote: It would be great if someone who has used or is otherwise aware of the feature sets of the Freerunner, HTC, and other smart phones to compare and contrast these. I was especially worried about a posting a day or two ago saying that the Freerunner is 1990s era hardware.

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 May 2008, at 11:45, Al Johnson wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008, Ajit Natarajan wrote: It would be great if someone who has used or is otherwise aware of the feature sets of the Freerunner, HTC, and other smart phones to compare and contrast these. I was especially worried about a post

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Federico Lorenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Al Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Comparing with the FreeRunner hardware wiki page: > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware > > > > Comms: Freerunner o

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Al Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Comparing with the FreeRunner hardware wiki page: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware > > Comms: Freerunner only has GSM/GPRS triband. > Connectivity: WiFi equal, Freerunner has Bluetooth 2.1 with ED

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 24 May 2008, Ajit Natarajan wrote: > It would be great if someone who has used or is otherwise aware of the > feature sets of the Freerunner, HTC, and other smart phones to compare > and contrast these. > > I was especially worried about a posting a day or two ago saying that > the Free

Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Ajit Natarajan
It would be great if someone who has used or is otherwise aware of the feature sets of the Freerunner, HTC, and other smart phones to compare and contrast these. I was especially worried about a posting a day or two ago saying that the Freerunner is 1990s era hardware. I would like to know wh