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By: Free Mobile Phones And Low

Free Mobile Phones And Low — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:50:34 +0000

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By: flyingfischer

flyingfischer — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:11:46 +0000

Hey, the OpenMoko is fun! Thanks for all the good work your doing! And it always was clearly declared as an developper-model. So please don’t expect it to be the new Nokia whatever… These phones, although miles ahead, can’t compete at all with the OpenMoko. It’s the four letters before Moko taht make the difference…

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By: mickey

mickey — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:25:32 +0000

@F30: Plans yes, but there is a certain limit of things we can work on in parallel Besides, going to UMTS is also pretty expensive due to the increased licensing costs.

By: F30

F30 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:04:02 +0000

OK, a camera will come earlier or later. I’m happy to hear this.
But the other important point for me is UMTS (respectively other standards). Are there any plans ripe for decision?

By: Esben Damgaard

Esben Damgaard — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:53:21 +0000

I’m appalled that people flame you because of not finished software. I think you all said it clear enough that it would work for proper use yet. I’m quite happy with mine even though I can’t use it as a phone yet. It already has a lot of other possibilities for a developer.

And by the way.. I wouldn’t call the phase 1 “prime time” Wait for that when the final version is there.

@nacer
The phone will certainly have synchronization features. One of my projects is to get syncevolution ( http://www.estamos.de/projects/SyncML/ ) to work on OpenMoko, so we can sync with Google Calendar. Hmm. Linux is nice

By: nacer

nacer — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:01:15 +0000

hi,
I will waiting the needed time for have a good product .

Do you plan to support the syncml protocol for sync address book and calendar ?

By: Asher Pat

Asher Pat — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:54:14 +0000

@Mickey: great many tks for patience with my questions.

Good Luck, I will be waiting!

But pls, improve/update OpenMoko.com, it does not look very good and is rarealy updated. I am not an Open Source person, but I wud say that following the rationale of Open Source, the site shud also be “open” and give “up to the minute” info on the status of product.

tks, that’s all!

By: Mickey

Mickey — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:26:09 +0000

@Asher: This is what we did with GTA01 and the masses were flaming us because gsmd (and other stuff) was not ready for prime time…

As for the camera, for GTA01 and GTA02 the case was already finished. Changing tooling (for a new case) is _very_ expensive. Besides, once you put a camera in, you run into a lot of mechanical problems first, and after you solved them, you need high quality software to make up for the low quality of mobile phone cameras. We need do this step-by-step. A camera is on the wish list for future models.

By: Asher Pat

Asher Pat — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:59:02 +0000

@Mickey: I hope you are right, as it will mean I will be able to get it in late november.

BTW - it seems as the issues you have is with the development of the software, so why do you have to wait for full resolution? why not sell the hardware with the most rudimentary phone apps, let the masses buy this unbelievably sexy product and then download the final software?

Also, I am not a real expert and may have missed the explanaiton, but why no camera?