<span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><a href="mailto:openmoko-devel@lists.openmoko.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"></a>On 7/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karsten Ensinger</b>
<<a href="mailto:karsten.at.openmoko@onlinehome.de">karsten.at.openmoko@onlinehome.de</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I do not want to sound harsh, but I do not think that it is<br>soooo important to have a special desktop software (regardless<br>of the running OS) for a phone. I do not want to say that<br>it is useless at all, but I think you overestimate the user
<br>base of such applications.<br>In my circle of friends, not even the PC related sync their<br>private mobile with their PCs. Only those using their mobile<br>for business do syncing on a regular base (but they have<br>
several hundreds of customer numbers to carry).<br>Of course all the PC geeks of my friends use their mobile in<br>conjunction with their laptops, but this is, if one would<br>count them, a small minority.<br>Everyone else uses only the applications on the mobile and
<br>nothing else. Maybe they download some ringtones or some<br>games, but syncing the phone is only relevant when they<br>switch their provider/mobile.<br>So to me it seems as if it would be a lot more important to<br>get some really smart applications running on the mobile.
<br>The most important part, from my point of view, which has to<br>be ready for the launch of the gta02, is an extremely easy to<br>use update mechanism working in EVERY environment (regardless<br>of OS). That is because the most relevant difference of the
<br>Neo 1973 to all the other phones is its openness and therefore<br>the possibility to extend the installed base of applications<br>to whatever one likes to have on its phone.<br><br>Just my two cents.<br><br>Regards<br>
<br><br></blockquote></div>I totally agree with you: the avarage user (for example my dad) won't sync their phone. At least not when they buy it. But then they. ehm.. need some document/foto/watherver on their phone, and so they connect it to the pc. And then they like to see that they can sync everything really simply just with a click'n'run or drag'n'drop system. If they have some sort of software "included" with the phone, it makes everything better. I think of something like you find nowdays on a pair of usb-disks: they have a bunch of windwos apps (just 2 or 3) preinstalled on them, and if you conenct it to the pc, a
autoexec.bat is automatically called by the os, wich executes this pr-installed programs. So the user needs to install nothing, simply pulls in the stick, and has the programs aviable. Something like that would be pretty cool.
<br>So the idea would be this one, but what would ou sync: the calendar, the pim and.. hm.. maybe a folder? or a group of folders?<br>To write something like this, we need to know a)how the Neo will be recognised (usb ethernet device, but what else?)
<br>b) What exactly should be synced<br>c) how does OpenMoko store the information wich will be synced.<br>If we know this points, everything could be done rally easylly.<br>btw, gtk is also aviable for windows. so that would be no problem.
<br>Regards, Stefan<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>My corner of the web: <a href="http://ramsesoriginal.wordpress.com">http://ramsesoriginal.wordpress.com</a><br>My dream, my world: <a href="http://abenu.wordpress.com">http://abenu.wordpress.com
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