Re: Re[2]: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Well I guess you just can't please everyone :/ Sure you can - put a switch in the phone's advanced preferences! :') Anyway, I have always felt that with a little dress-up, the verbose startup could become reassuring rather than ala

Re: Re[2]: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: And we want the matrix screensaver too. :-) And it can't run down the batteries... :') ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Re[2]: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Jan 12, 2008 5:34 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, we left that in on purpose -- especially for the geeks. Of course, > it's > scheduled for removal in a consumer-only release (whenever that may > come) release. Well I guess you just can't please everyone

Re[2]: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Ted Lemon wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Lon Lentz wrote: >> I read the "not so happy" comments following the Gizmodo article. >> A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the >> repeated ones about the boot scroll being visible. > I thought that was weird. The

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Zitune
On Jan 12, 2008 3:12 PM, kenneth marken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > imo its a much better feature then looking at a boot graphic that never > stops > looping and wonder why it does not... > > For sure, but it seem importqnt to be able to hide the boot scroll for mass market. Not all people a

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread kenneth marken
On Friday 11 January 2008 23:20:51 Lon Lentz wrote: > > I would recommend everyone go read Wired's article on the story of the > iPhone development. Read about how well their prototype did. Hint: The > iPhone didn't magically appear as a finished project out of thin air by > shear will power. The

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread kenneth marken
On Saturday 12 January 2008 07:26:18 Ted Lemon wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Lon Lentz wrote: > > I read the "not so happy" comments following the Gizmodo article. > > A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the > > repeated ones about the boot scroll being visible.

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Jan 12, 2008 7:42 AM, Jeff Andros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > agreed... plus how often does a consumer ready phone get rebooted? last > time I did mine was to swap the sim card into my neo > In my experience it is like this: Nokia phones needs to be rebooted every week. This has bee

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Ken Smith
On Jan 11, 2008 12:21 PM, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Lon, > > Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and > apparently even more have appeared: > > http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on > http://takezero.net/3g-and-m

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Jeff Andros
On Jan 11, 2008 11:26 PM, Ted Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Lon Lentz wrote: > > I read the "not so happy" comments following the Gizmodo article. > > A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the > > repeated ones about the boot scroll bein

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Lon Lentz wrote: I read the "not so happy" comments following the Gizmodo article. A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the repeated ones about the boot scroll being visible. I thought that was weird. The boot scroll is one of my fav

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Lon Lentz
Thanks, Michael. That was what I was looking for. Geek tech sites covering you guys at the show. I read the "not so happy" comments following the Gizmodo article. A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the repeated ones about the boot scroll being visible. I would re

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Jan 11, 2008 2:17 PM, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The comments are.. not so happy. :/ Yeah it didn't make a good impression to show the boot messages, and a buggy crashing version of the UI. It really doesn't make sense, in that the rest of us are getting better results with the

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/11/08, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Lon, > > Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and > apparently even more have appeared: > > http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on > http://takezero.net/3g-and-mobile-news/han

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 11 January 2008 21:21:41 Michael Shiloh wrote: > Hi Lon, > > Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and > apparently even more have appeared: > > http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on > http://takezero.net/3g-and-mobile-news/

Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Lon, Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and apparently even more have appeared: http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on http://takezero.net/3g-and-mobile-news/hands-on-with-fics-openmoko-powered-freerunner-2 http://youtube.co