Evgeny Karyakin wrote:
> Dunno... First link propose a case suggesting iPhone look, I think
The hole is important. You can tie the phone to a string. And it is
easier for the do-it-yourselfers to make brackets for car/bicycle use.
> With relation to Raster's case, if you're going to get sliding
> * Localization issues. Hopefully Openmoko (phones) will be wide-spread
This is an important point. Other phone makers all fail on this point.
They sell phones with a english keyboard. This is not sufficent in the
rest of Europe, of course. So they think they can paint the keytops
differently, and change the keyboard driver. This fail, because
there is not enough keys. Other languages using the latin alphabet tends
to have a few letters more than just A-Z. And then you get ugly kludges
where you have almost the local qwerty-layout, but the non-english
stuff is in strange places requiring an extra shift modifier or some
idiocy like that. They tend to be painted in a strange color too, so you
can find them quicker in those unfamiliar places. The Norwegian
blackberry is one such kludgephone. Well, they aren't all English. I
have seen German phones too. Most markets are too small though.
For an idea of just how irritating this is - imagine if you had a
mostly english keyboard where "a" and "q" were absent - to be typed
in with "special shift" followed by "1" or "2" respectively.
There is no such problem with on-screen keyboards. I made
a Norwegian terminal keyboard for my GTA02, with all the keys in the
right places. It has more keys than the english terminal keyboard, but
that was easy enough - a software fix. I don't think they'll make the
GTA03 in 30 different keyboard versions - all painted slightly different
and some with different number of keys too. And then some want a
dvorak layout - 60 different layouts then. So they'll cut all the
small-market keyboards - those that want them can re-paint their
keyboards any way they want. :-/
Helge Hafting
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