Thanks christoph.<div><br></div><div> Please feel free to sign up over on the developer list at qi and post comments there.</div><div><br></div><div>Inlined repsonses.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Christoph Pulster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openmoko@pulster.de">openmoko@pulster.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<br>
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my thoughts to Qi / NanoBook:<br>
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Mistakes repeated from Openmoko times:<br>
1. you believe too much in the community.</blockquote><div> Guilty. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
2. you announce products which are not exitant for sales.</blockquote><div><br></div><div> The first version of the NanoNote will be available for sale this fall. The Design files</div><div> were released in early July. I will have marketing samples in a couple of weeks.</div>
<div> Then we can order the product and be ready for shipping in 45 days or so, provided</div><div> that the kernel is in good shape.</div><div> WRT the follow on products. It is our intention to announce roadmaps in the most</div>
<div> open way we can imagine. </div><div> So, if we collectively decide that a touchscreen would be nice to add, then that</div><div> can be investigated. A second LCD on the top of the case to see incoming calls or</div>
<div> msgs, that too. A different keyboard? more connectivity, of course. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
3. you got no MPEG-patent licences.</blockquote><div><br></div><div> We don't need them. I'll take MPLA as an example. At a previous company I shipped</div><div> hardware with Mpeg capability ( could do decode) but with no software. The software</div>
<div> was sold separately. I did this with the full knowledge and consent of the patent</div><div> holder. The situation is different for companies that have already violated a patent.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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4. you dont aim VAR.</blockquote><div><br></div><div> We target developers, including VARS. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
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New mistakes:<br>
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1. you base on old-fashioned hardware<br>
(Zaurus was state-of-the-art, a hugh community existed, although Sharp<br>
did not give attention to it at all)</blockquote><div><br></div><div> We had a choice between two challenges:</div><div> A. Select existing proven hardware and work with the community to shape</div><div> it into what we collectively want it to be following the principles of freedom</div>
<div> B. Design something new from scratch.</div><div><br></div><div> Having made mistake B before, now we choose mistake A. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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2. you base on "made in China" (synonym for crap in Europe)</blockquote><div><br></div><div> Iphone is made in China. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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3. the PDA clam-shell form factor is obsolete, there is no small AND<br>
useable physical keyboard</blockquote><div><br></div><div> It's funny. I spent about a month showing the device to people in San Francisco.</div><div> Every one of them was an Iphone user ( ok one owned a blackberry ) Not a single</div>
<div> one commented negatively about the clamshell. Most of them made comments</div><div> about things I hadn't considered.. not having to worry about scratching screens,</div><div> not having to buy a cover to prevent scratches, they liked the weight and feel,</div>
<div> loved the size of the keyboard (hated their touch screen keyboard ). The keyboard</div><div> is bigger and has more keys than my samsung phone keyboard which is perfectly</div><div> useable.. not for writing novels of course. Anyways I continue to see clamshell</div>
<div> designs in the marketplace, of one form or another. Some people prefer it. I have</div><div> a touchscreen phone ( Android dev platform) hate the keyboard. a couple </div><div> clamshell devices, my samsung slider, and a phone that has two keyboard that slide out.</div>
<div> When I look at the mechanical design of these devices I think about wine cork pullers.</div><div> Huh? Did you ever notice how many different design approaches there were to wine</div><div> cork pullers? You have the kind that just corkscrew in. You got ones that slide</div>
<div> two thin pieces of metal past the cork. You've got corkscrews kinds that also hold</div><div> the bottle in place. bunches of designs! why? because no design is optimal even</div><div> for the simple task of pulling out a cork, much less complicated tasks like driving</div>
<div> or communicating or playing music or..And of course everyone wanted different</div><div> colors because they could not see that black was optimal. hehe. </div><div> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Anyway I wish you best success with your effords, Steve, I really do.</blockquote><div><br></div><div> Thank you. Christoph, that means a lot to me. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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