<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> The current OpenMoko compromise is not suitable for running a spreadsheet<br>
> application or a word processor.<br>
<br>
</div>For you maybe, but Abiword and Gnumeric are working fine for me.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>True, that's my own opinion. I think the display is too small and the input method<br>is too hard. But I must confess; I generally don't use anything other than Emacs<br>
and Eclipse for anything close to word processing and one of the things with emacs is that you really need a keyboard with it.. :-P<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> If you want those applications then you<br>
> need to have some sort of keyboard. When the Ilume keyboard is active<br>
> you only have perhaps 60% left of the screen. That means your application<br>
> only have _half_ a VGA display. This practically eliminates the pro that<br>
> people here have been bringing up, the full VGA display.<br>
<br>
</div>The Psion's only half-VGA and it works fine there. The Psion does make better<br>
use of the screen space, but that's an application issue.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>Which means that you would still be happy if you had a slightly bigger display<br>and a slightly thicker stylus, right? Maybe even happier if you could use both<br>your thumbs to push buttons on the on-screen keyboard. (For shift/alt keys etc. But of course, that could be solved by adding a couple of more real buttons..) <br>
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> If you think I'm wrong, could you please tell me in which situations you<br>
> really<br>
> could use application X or Y on your OpenMoko? And I mean in a situation<br>
> where you would not have easy access to your EeePC in your back-pack.<br>
<br>
</div>Exactly the same situations where I use them on the Psion, probably more<br>
because I would carry it in situations where even the Psion is too big. When<br>
I first got the Psion I found myself using it in many more situations than I </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">had expected, simply because it was there and it worked.</blockquote>
<div><br>OK, that's a convincing example to me. But I'm not convinced that a capacitive<br>screen+stylus would prevent you from doing the same things. The iPhone has<br>a bigger display but is in total smaller than the OpenMoko, and correct me (again) if I'm wrong, but aren't there some sort of word-processor for the iPhone too?<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> On the other hand, if you add a multi touch capable LCD panel, then you<br>
> would<br>
> enable software developers like myself to develop a whole range of new<br>
> applications that are _not_ possible on a desktop or on the current<br>
> OpenMoko...<br>
> Applications that you will never see on the current OpenMoko.<br>
><br>
> (I'm still not ruling out the possibility of a multi touch enabled<br>
> resistive screen,<br>
> but I never heard of such a thing...)<br>
<br>
</div>I've never seen a commercial one, but I don't think it presents too many<br>
technical hurdles. unfortunately Openmoko aren't big enough to push a<br>
manufacturer to make such a thing, unlike Apple.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>True, which means we will probably never see a resistive multi touch enabled<br>screen on an OpenMoko...<br><br> Best regards<br> Anton<br>