<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Funny.. this is very similar to the interface we designed for the Wurlitzer Digital Jukebox remote control.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Great minds think alike, I suppose.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I like that HTC is trying to build something other than the most basic WinCE ports. I spend a lot of my day developing software on a HTC Apache, and if that phone was my daily driver, I would go insane.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But having seen up close and personal how poorly HTC designs BSPs for WinCE, I can only say I hope this device works better.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also... has anyone seen the Prada phone? The guy who did the touchscreen drivers for that phone was at an eTel dinner this year and I've got to say, I really thought the interface was quite polished. I wouldn't call it "revolutionary," but it seemed to have a lot of nice little touches to make it more delightful to use. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So I think that even if the iPhone turns out to be a financial disaster (Newton 2007?) it will at least have advanced the notion that UI for mobile devices is important for "feature phones."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Cheers</DIV><DIV>-Matt H.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Eric Heinemann wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><SPAN>Found a demo of Touchflo at <A target="_blank" href="http://www.htctouch.com/">http://www.htctouch.com/</A></SPAN><BR><BR>Looks very similiar to the way the iPhone interface works.<BR><BR><DIV style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Thomas Gstädtner <<A href="mailto:thomas@gstaedtner.net">thomas@gstaedtner.net</A>><BR>To: Oleg Gusev <<A href="mailto:oleg@crista.uni-wuppertal.de">oleg@crista.uni-wuppertal.de</A>><BR>Cc: <A href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</A><BR>Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2007 12:50:29 PM<BR>Subject: Re: New HTC Touch<BR><BR>Ok, I do not know the cheap HTC's. The one I have and need for work uses a big and mighty XScale :)<BR>Well - the 612 MHz doesn't make the dialing software of WM5 in 640x480 faster. Really unusable.<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"> 2007/6/5, Oleg Gusev <<A rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:oleg@crista.uni-wuppertal.de">oleg@crista.uni-wuppertal.de</A>>:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 18:17 schrieb Fabien:<BR>><BR>> As a former HTC customer I can only agree: hardware is great<BR>><BR>Are you joking ? This is the cheapest mass-market<BR>HTC design based on OMAP850 CPU. <BR><BR> Oleg.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>OpenMoko community mailing list<BR><A rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</A><BR><A rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community"> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> <DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>OpenMoko community mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</A><BR><A target="_blank" href="http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community">http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community</A><BR></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><BR> <HR size="1">Building a website is a piece of cake. <BR>Yahoo! Small Business gives you <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48251/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/?p=PASSPORTPLUS">all the tools to get online.</A><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OpenMoko community mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community">http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>