On 08/07/2007 10:49 AM somebody named G T Smith wrote:
Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Dear everyone on the list
I am going to purchase a new mobile phone: having not purchased a new mobile phone for some 6 years I am shocked in both number of choices on the market and over-wheelming number of features to choose from. I guess probably people on the list know better which in-expensive durable model that can cope well with SuSE software, e.g. Evolution (for contact persons and alarm is okay).
Internet: It's better if the mobile phone can offer Internet connectivity, to allow me read / send email on the mobile phone using IMAP. No need to run a browser on it. Also it's better if the phone can provide my notebook wireless Internet connection through infrared or bluetooth or whatever Linux supports. No fancy function like camera and radio needed. If mp3 is supported then better also support OGG.
Multimedia: No complex feature like play one of 1000 games and run several kinds of virtual machine. No need wide built-in full-color screen for watching movie and reading book.
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Thanks and sorry for being OT.
You have two initial constraints - what the carrier provides and what the carrier uses to deliver service....
You seem to be based in China, SE Asia is in many ways technically much more developed in this area than europe and the U.S. with a much richer range of options. (I believe the openmoku phone is being put in production in China, maybe you could talk yourself into becoming a beta tester.. :-) )
There are a number of things in the japanese/korean marketplace which are not available in the west which might work for you. Most of the western phone manufacturers struggle in this marketplace, it might be worth talking to others in the region to get a better perspective. A western based option is quite likely to be inappropriate...
It's good to discover that I'm not the only person here who's heard of the the openmoko phone. It's my understanding that this phone is being manufactured in Taiwan, is GMS-based, and was designed from the beginning to run open source apps. The beta version, called Verson 1, of this phone is available now, but the applications it will run is very limited. The company claims that Version 2, with all basic apps functioning, will be available in October. This is the phone I've been waiting for. It's really a handheld computer (and so a PDA also) which can connect to phone and internet services. As do all cell phones (as far as I'm aware), it has a GPS, but the difference is that with the openmoko phone it is accessible to the user and whatever applications the user wants to install. The obvious application is for mapping, but it's easy to imagine many other applications. There's a lot more potential for this phone. See http://www.openmoko.org/ for more info. hth, ken -- Abstinence-Only sex education is a little like Just-Hold-It potty training. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org