Anybody have any thoughts on this open source project, OpenMoko? I recently
heard about it. They seem to be trying to recreate the development stack for
cellular phones and PDA's but on an open source format. here is a link to
their site if anyone is interested.
On Friday 09 May 2008 08:33, David Samson wrote:
Anybody have any thoughts on this open source project, OpenMoko? I recently
heard about it. They seem to be trying to recreate the development stack
for cellular phones and PDA's but on an open source format. here is a link
to their site if
On May 09, 2008, Neil Joseph Schelly sent me the following:
I've been waiting patiently for the finished product. They've run into more
than their share of delays, but continue to make progress. When the fnished
phone (with wifi/bluetooth/accelerometers/etc) is released, I'll surely be
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've been waiting patiently for the finished product. They've run into
more
than their share of delays, but continue to make progress. When the
fnished
phone (with wifi/bluetooth/accelerometers/etc) is released,
Tom Buskey wrote:
IMO, the original Palm UI and apps still hold up very well. I've been
using Palm with Unix since I got a Pilot 1000. I have a Blackberry for
work and my wife uses an iPhone.
I keep an old Handspring Visor Pro handy, myself. I like that I can
back it up to a CF card
What happens when a multi-billion dollar corporation gets involved in Linux?
http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/openvoices/edward-screven/
I thought folks might find some of the above interesting. If not, then
please feel free to forget that you read it.
Rich
On Friday 09 May 2008 09:05, Chip Marshall wrote:
Unfortunately, I don't think OpenMoko will catch on. It's going to be
competeing with Google's Android platform, which is getting a lot more
buzz, simply because it's Google.
Isn't Android just a software platform though? Maybe I've misread.
On Fri, 9 May 2008 09:07:08 -0400
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've been waiting patiently for the finished product. They've run into
more
than their share of delays, but continue to make progress.
On Friday 09 May 2008 09:07, Tom Buskey wrote:
IMO, the original Palm UI and apps still hold up very well. I've been
using Palm with Unix since I got a Pilot 1000. I have a Blackberry for
work and my wife uses an iPhone.
That is true - I've been using Palms for nearly a decade now and
On May 09, 2008, Neil Joseph Schelly sent me the following:
Isn't Android just a software platform though? Maybe I've misread. The
interesting thing about OpenMoko is the hardware. The software ought
to be reasonably capable, but I can imagine buying an OpenMoko and
loading both the OpenMoko
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 09:45 -0400, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
On Friday 09 May 2008 09:07, Tom Buskey wrote:
IMO, the original Palm UI and apps still hold up very well. I've been
using Palm with Unix since I got a Pilot 1000. I have a Blackberry for
work and my wife uses an iPhone.
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 09:28 -0400, Brian Chabot wrote:
Tom Buskey wrote:
IMO, the original Palm UI and apps still hold up very well. I've been
using Palm with Unix since I got a Pilot 1000. I have a Blackberry for
work and my wife uses an iPhone.
I keep an old Handspring Visor Pro
On 05/09/2008 11:18 AM, Coleman Kane wrote:
I've got a Treo 680 and I've liked it pretty well. Occasionally it
resets itself (like acouple times per month), but not the kind of reset
where it loses all data, it just reboots. I got it second-hand though,
so the prev. owner might have dropped it
On Friday 09 May 2008 11:28, Mark Komarinski wrote:
On 05/09/2008 11:18 AM, Coleman Kane wrote:
I've got a Treo 680 and I've liked it pretty well. Occasionally it
resets itself (like acouple times per month), but not the kind of reset
where it loses all data, it just reboots. I got it
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Palm dropped the ball IMO when they split their hardware and software
groups apart.
I don't know if that was a cause, or just a symptom of their lack of
direction, but Palm has certainly been sinking for years and years
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Palm dropped the ball IMO when they split their hardware and software
groups apart.
I don't know if that was a cause, or just a symptom of their lack
On Friday 09 May 2008 19:33, Tom Buskey wrote:
Well, try finding WiFi in a Palm. Or any smartphone. iPhone has one
that's a nice boost in speed. I'm not sure how useful SSH or other net
apps on the Palm are w/o a wireless network,
SSH is the most used thing on my Palm after the
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They're still essentially shipping
the same code they were in 2004, with only very minor updates. Their
Palm Desktop software still isn't enterprise friendly, and also
I haven't used it in years. I sync to Outlook, jpilot,
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They're still essentially shipping
the same code they were in 2004, with only very minor updates. Their
Palm Desktop software still isn't enterprise
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