Comments on: What is iPhone?

By: openmoko

openmoko — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:08:31 +0000

OpenMoko looks like an interesting alternative, coming soon.

By: luxuryluke

luxuryluke — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:05:23 +0000

Great post, Ted.
I agree about the SDK, and it will be fascinating to see what happens with widgets, if at all?
I’m just not anxious to sign on to Cingulars pricey data plans.
I’ll def get it for the mp3, movie, photo, contact and everything else, non web-related.

Thanks for the insights.

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tecosystems » links for 2007-01-11 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:37:29 +0000

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By: Karl G

Karl G — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:10:33 +0000

I really wanted this thing to be open and low level hackable. I see mobile devices as the most interesting app development space, but the lack of a programmable widespread consumer oriented phone and poor pipes in the US limits the ability to create interesting applications that are conceptually different to those delivered on the desktop. I’m interested in exploring this design space.

I was hoping to get a Gen1 for app development, but no SDK means that I can stick to my no-Gen1 rule for apple products.

As far as input systems, i’m disappointed that their solution is a corrected querty. I was hoping for something more like the TenGO system or some use of multitouch (chording springs to mind but probably isn’t a good solution).

As a js developer, I think it’ll take a while for phones to ramp up to enough processing power to handle DOM manipulation in a satisfying manner. The widgets use it in a relatively tame manner, but js on the wild and wooly web tends to be a good bit heavier.

P.S. Your contrast is too low for that much text. I had to bump it up to #b0b0b0 to get it readable and I have good eyes.