Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer writes:
>Let's distinguish two types of popup-dialogs:
>
>a) informative (i.e. battery low, incoming sms, sms sent)
>b) confirmative ("Mickey calling. Answer / Ignore / Reject?", "Do you
>want to remove all contacts?")
>
>Right now, we're leaning towards (ab)using the bottom status bar (in
>openmoko-language called 'footer') for informative dialogs and using
>half screen (480x320) popup dialogs for confirmative.
>
>What do you think?

Off the top of my head, sounds good.