[Shr-User] Aurora

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:47:46PM +0200, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
> Hi Corey,
> 
> > On Monday, May 16, 2011 09:02:58 AM Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> >> NOTE: Cross-posted to three mailing lists, please keep it that way, if
> >> you want to reply.
> >> 
> >> Aurora is supposed to be something we call a "featurephone client" –
> >> featurephones being those things we used for telephony before 
> >> smartphones were invented.
> >> 
> > 
> > Could you please elaborate a bit further for those of us who are 
> > unsure of the specific functional differences between a "featurephone" 
> > and a "smartphone"?
> 
> For sure. Featurephone vs. Smartphone is resembling the difference
> of, lets say, a Sony Ericsson K700, and an iPhone.
> 
> On the K700, the whole OS is designed around the telephony. While it
> has additional "features", it doesn't allow you to install native applications
> (well, yes, there are some Java applets, but these don't count as they
> are not at all integrated into the system and they can't access the phone
> databases nor talk to each other) – it sells because of the quality of the
> telephony.
> 
> On the iPhone, the whole OS is designed around the idea of a mobile
> computer that allows you to perform a vast variety of tasks. You can install a myriad
> of apps and only a very minor percentage of these apps have anything to do
> with telephony. The telephony is a "feature" among many others. In fact,
> telephony is pretty lousy on an iPhone, but that's ok, because it is not the
> feature that sells this device.
> 
> Bottom line: feature phone is less flexible, comes with everything preinstalled,
> and is designed around the telephony.

There is nice description of feature phone and smartphone in Chapter 2
http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/papers/gsm_phone-anatomy-latest.pdf
but I guess this doesn't help much to imagine "featurephone client" :)

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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