Re: dialer interface questions

2007-01-28 Thread Ben F-W
Richi Plana wrote: You'll be surprised at how big dictionaries can get and how much it bogs down the CPU when you try to compress it. If not for that, I had a whole slew of fancy ideas I wanted to implement that would make the cellphone seem as if it could read your mind with just a few keystroke

Re: dialer interface questions

2007-01-26 Thread Richi Plana
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 23:52 -0700, Jeff Andros wrote: > I hope you can give us a hand with this stuff without getting yourself > in trouble. I'm actually more concerned that I might harm the project by my involvement so I'll stay away from IMEs for a while. I'll have to find an IP lawyer who can

Re: dialer interface questions

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Andros
hmmm, I think all we're really doing is searching multiple lists... so I think a case could be made that this doesn't apply, I've got a vague idea about how some of the patent stuff works, but there's orders of magnitude more that I don't know compared to what I do. anyways, you've got a right to

Re: dialer interface questions

2007-01-25 Thread Richi Plana
I don't mean to toot my own horn (up till June of 2006, I worked for Zi Corporation as a developer), but you should really check out Qix . Unfortunately, most of that stuff is likely patented. I'm not even sure how I can go about developing for OpenMoko since I worked

dialer interface questions

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Andros
something I've been wondering about for a long time, but haven't asked: in the interface shots, it looks like the phone is looking up contacts as you type... or maybe it's just showing a list of recent/common contacts. if it's just showing a list of recent/favorite contacts, that's cool, we can