dialer suggestion

[Joshua Layne]

I know I should let this die... :)
however.

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:Rotary_Dialer

j.
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:13:28 -0500, "Ryan Prior" <piratehead at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I think that would be awesome... that's all have to add, though. If
anybody
> wants to make a fun cosmetic change to the Dialer, this could be a really
> cool one!
> 
> On 9/17/07, Joshua Layne <joshua at willowisp.net> wrote:
>>
>> kinda tongue-in-cheek, but...
>> so kinetic scrolling works now
>> and all the 'dialer' does is capture numbers to send to the GSM chip.
>> what about an old-school dialer?  OK, maybe 'retro' is a better name at
>> this point.
>>
>> ROTARY baby!
>>
>> kitsch.  flare.  nobodyelsehasit.
>>
>> (maybe there is a reason for that last one)
>>
>> I dunno - crazy idea, but it could look really cool - " what the H are
>> you doing?" - "I'm dialing my cell phone, jeez...."
>>
>> I have no photoshop skillz, so all I can tell you is: find an old rotary
>> dial phone - make it look like that. - like a virtual of these:
>> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/portable_rotary.html (just
>> the dialer)
>>
>> priority (1 is high): 99 or 999
>>
>> it's at least as important as TV.
>>
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