Plenty of good points well made and also some good points not so well made ;)<br><br>The fact that FIC are keen to build a whole slew of devices about openmoko is great news and I hope that we will see different form factor phones as well as other devices.
<br><br>That said I am almost more excited about getting more openmokos out in the wild because I am sure that we are going to see a good amount of hardware hacking as well as software. If weight is an issue for some it would be interesting to see component breakdown from a weight point of view, see where the difference in weight comes from. Personally, I like weighty and am more bothered about bulky.
<br><br>Am I right in thinking that the Neo hardware designs are almost as open as openmoko? Would be interesting to see a bit of community design from that side of things. Cherry pick from current designs or something entirely new. I wonder how small you could squeeze down Neo hardware if you had a fixed battery with much smaller cover for sim and micro sd?
<br><br>I've not plucked up teh courage to take apart my ipod nano yet but I have always wondered how they get that little thing together from a manufacturing point of view. Obviously the metal case would be rubbish for a phone and there is no way I'm suggesting anything that small...
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 03/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">wim delvaux</b> <<a href="mailto:wim.delvaux@adaptiveplanet.com">wim.delvaux@adaptiveplanet.com</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;">
FWIW,<br><br>most of these 'light' phones do seem so 'fragile'. It looks like any drop<br>from pocket or table might smash them to bits. Less weight generally means<br>more flimsy devices.<br><br>I have had the NEO in my hands and although the numbers may make if sound like
<br>it is chunky it is not AND when held gives you the feeling that it is rather<br>drop-safe.<br><br>Personally I prefer 'robustness' over 'light weight'. (Hell, I still run<br>around with my NOKIA 6130 which to any modern standard looks like a brick,
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