I made a case mockup a little while ago. But I never had time to create a 3D model.<br><br>I came across a few problems while I designed the case:<br><br><ul><li>The Freerunner doesn't have any buttons on its front. In addition to that, the borders left and right from the display are pretty large (around 0.8 cm/0.315 inch). Everytime I looked at my mockup, I thought it's looking some kind of strange. It's really hard to get a good design if you only have a display and nothing more.</li>
<li>Another problem that was resulted by the one above was that every mockup I made looked either like the iPhone or a LG Prada (or like all the other mobiles with a touchscreen). These days nearly every touchscreen phone looks the same!<br>
</li><li>The last problem I came across was the thickness. Even if the bevels around the display are removed (that makes about 3mm/0.12inch less), the phone is still very thick. But I don't think there is a way to get it smaller...</li>
</ul>Have a look at the mockup here: <a href="http://www.opkg.org/images/case_mockup.jpg">http://www.opkg.org/images/case_mockup.jpg</a><br><br>It would be really cool if someone could create a new case. I never liked the original one, and something more "stylish" would be great.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Tobias<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 19:52, "Marco Trevisan (Treviņo)" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@3v1n0.net">mail@3v1n0.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><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">arne anka wrote:<br>
>> would it be possible, this way, to find a possible way to remove the<br>
>> frame<br>
>> around the screen?<br>
>><br>
>> In other words: could a new case be made that hasn't the frame around the<br>
>> screen? that would increase the usable surface<br>
><br>
> my thoughts exactly ;-)<br>
> any help from the hardware guys or those having the fr disassembled<br>
> already?<br>
> is the beveled border somehow necessary?<br>
<br>
</div>Mh, When I removed the front cover to put in my homemade screen<br>
protector (a transparent foil for projections :P), I noticed that<br>
there's space for keeping the LCD on the surface of the cover.<br>
I'm I wrong?<br>
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