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.
<br><br>anyways, you've got a right to be proud if you worked on this, from the little I can see on their site, it looks really tight... I hope you can give us a hand with this stuff without getting yourself in trouble.
<br><br>Thanks<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richi Plana</b> <<a href="mailto:myopenmoko@richip.dhs.org">myopenmoko@richip.dhs.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't mean to toot my own horn (up till June of 2006, I worked for Zi<br>Corporation as a developer), but you should really check out Qix<br><<a href="http://www.zicorp.com/Qix.htm">http://www.zicorp.com/Qix.htm</a>
>. Unfortunately, most of that stuff is<br>likely patented. I'm not even sure how I can go about developing for<br>OpenMoko since I worked as an embedded software engineer at Zi.<br><br>At any rate, Qix is fantastic. I'd rather not talk about it (since I
<br>might mention something not official), but do go read about it on their<br>web site and discuss how we could come up with a better interface that<br>doesn't violate their patent.<br><br>On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 23:28 -0700, Jeff Andros wrote:
<br>> something I've been wondering about for a long time, but haven't<br>> asked:<br>><br>> in the interface shots, it looks like the phone is looking up contacts<br>> as you type... or maybe it's just showing a list of recent/common
<br>> contacts. if it's just showing a list of recent/favorite contacts,<br>> that's cool, we can change it after the release, but it would be<br>> pretty sweet if the phone could look up people as you type via some
<br>> kind of lookup method(T9/start dialing a number that's stored in the<br>> phonebook/call lists and it completes it/other ideas that I haven't<br>> come up with). in other words, whether you want a phone number you
<br>> have memorized or a person's name via T9/multipress you just start<br>> typing and the list below starts getting pared down<br>><br>> my other thought is to enable the dialer to look up a phone number via
<br>> internet directories... I understand you can't make a data and a voice<br>> call at the same time, but it would be nice sometimes to see that it's<br>> some business calling... or to have the name of a previous caller
<br>> filled in after the call (wouldn't have to go "who was 602-555-8956 on<br>> monday at 12:00?").<br>><br>> I'll put these up on the wiki, but I wanted to know if there was any<br>> feedback on this.
<br>> anyways, not trying to contribute to the noise, but those have been<br>> kind of sizzling on the back burner for a while now, wanted to get<br>> them off before they burned (because that really stinks up the place)
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