Size and weight considerations for future Openmoko devices

[Carlo E. Prelz]

	Subject: Re: Size and weight considerations for future Openmoko devices
	Date: Wed 02 May 07 03:24:43PM +0200

Quoting Andreas Kostyrka (andreas at kostyrka.org):

> > Yes, it makes the text a tiny bit sharper, and if you bring it to 20cm
> > from the eye, and have good eyes, you can read 80*25 text on it, but...
> > If you could knock off 50g by going to 240*320, I suspect I would.
> 
> Not really, 50g really are not relevant.

I would like to state how little I appreciate this race towards
reduced size and weight in telephones. For me, a telephone has to be
felt, both in the hand and in the pocket. Too small a phone is
unwieldy to use and way too easy to lose. 

More functions, yes. If the openmoko was two times its weight, but it
sported a 20G hard disk, a qwerty keyboard, and very good audio
quality via headphones, all this with 10 hours or more of audio
playback battery time, it would be my ideal piece of equipment.

At FIC they not have the budget of Apple, and they do not have the
possibility to market a product at a loss, I presume. The sales point
of the Openmoko phone is its extraordinary adaptability to the needs
of resourceful people, not its size or weight.

Carlo

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