<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/18/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carlo E. Prelz</b> <<a href="mailto:fluido@fluido.as">fluido@fluido.as</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> Subject: Re: Unofficial poll: Do you want 3G in the proposed successor, GTA03?<br> Date: ven 18 apr 08 08:25:57 +0200<br>
<br>Quoting Flemming Richter Mikkelsen (<a href="mailto:quatrox@gmail.com">quatrox@gmail.com</a>):<br><br>> Two things:<br>> 1) It is not just to print the circuit board even if you had the shematics.<br>> When you have transmission lines, you also need to tweak by moving the<br>
> components, measure, move some more, measure again...and there are many<br>> other things too.<br>> 2) Nobody wants to reroute just to add a keypad. You can just connect it on<br>> usb or some other available bus.<br>
<br>I believe what I am asking may be within the plans I had read about<br>from FIC (producing a range of different products centered on the same<br>technological "core").<br><br>Doing the rerouting and the tweaking is not elementary, I agree, but<br>
FIC is in a position to produce a keyboard-equipped (*NOT* numeric<br>keypad!) GTA02.2 in a MUCH shorter time and with a MUCH smaller effort<br>than anybody else, due to both the accessibility of the circuit files,<br>and the large experience they are putting together in these months<br>
(years?).<br><br>While I am on the subject, I would suggest:<br><br>GTA02.2: Nokia E91i form-factor<br><br>GTA02.3: Nokia Communicator form-factor (double screen, double<br>keyboard, clam-shell with a much more useable QWERTY keyboard).<br>
<br>GTA02.999 (pure fantasy-land): Asus EEE form-factor. An ultra-portable<br>laptop with a GSM modem included and a small, extractable headset that<br>can be easily hand-picked when having to make a call. I am thinking of<br>
a solid cradle for a bluetooth earphone, that is automatically charged<br>while on-hook. You have your EEE-sized gizmo in your duffel bag, or<br>you are typing on it, and the phone rings (loudspeaker). You pick up<br>the earphone and answer the call. You can close the call by re-hooking<br>
the earphone (or maybe by clicking on a screen icon). Or you keep the<br>earphone on your ear and you hear the ringing sound. You can thus<br>even keep the EEE in your rucksack.<br><br>(if FIC is listening: you may want to call your colleagues at ASUS: by<br>
joining forces you could now bring to market GTA02.999 in no time!)<br><br>Software-wise: once the Openmoko interface is solid enough, so that<br>you can offer a workable interface to phone, sms and PIM-related<br>functions (contacts, agenda, to do), it is just a question to merge<br>
the Openmoko layer into, for example, the Xandros distribution that<br>Asus uses for the EEE. The new EEE 900 has a 20Gb (!) solid-state<br>memory device. There is space for all you need on your transportable<br>PC plus phone.<br>
<br>Slowly descending back to earth...<br><br></blockquote></div>
<div>Are you sure you want a neo? It sounds more like you want a nokia with android.</div>
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