<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>Am 21.07.2009 um 10:52 schrieb steven mosher:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hns@computer.org">hns@computer.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "> <div style="word-wrap:break-word">Ouch!<div><br></div><div>So you need to connect a mouse that is larger than the device to position any scrollbars or press buttons? Or does it have a large enough trackpad somewhere?</div> </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> There is a 4 way key that can be used for up/down/right/left. etc . And an additional</div><div> key for up and down. ( or vol+- ) </div><div><br></div><div> Not sure where you got the mouse idea. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>That is "my own view" (TM) what is needed to make it useable.</div><div><br></div><div>Have you ever tried to operate a UI with the mouse-pointer paradigm through arrow keys?</div><div><br></div><div>So I expect that someone needs to write is a complete UI stack for arrow-key-only operation. Plus applications. No compatibility to most FOSS. Unless we restrict the Non-G-UI to commandline and ncurses.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div><br></div><div>What I wonder is how it will compare to this one:</div> <div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipit_Wireless_Messenger_(Z2)" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipit_Wireless_Messenger_(Z2)</a></div><div><br> </div> <div>and its community project - it appears also to be quite open - but not free(dom):</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://linux.zipitwireless.com/" target="_blank">http://linux.zipitwireless.com/</a></div> </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> And it locks you into a service plan. Not much point in comparing apples and oranges. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hint: they have approx. 3 or 4 years experience with this device class and users of such devices. And they may have an (economic) reason to offer that with a service plan...</div></div><div><br></div></body></html>