Posts
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Motorola announces A1800 in China
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All this little stuff - a very personal roundup
Though there is more “little stuff” available in this world, I just want to talk about the different kinds of mobile devices—PDA(-Phone)s, MIDs, UMPCs, Netbooks—to name them (you may think I forgot about smartphones, but the internet experience on non-touchscreen devices is (or at least should be) much different from the others).
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GUIs on phones and PCs ... next step?
As some of my regular readers might have already realized, I want to use a mobile phone like a PC, I want to have it as a smaller PC to have a PC everywhere—that's why I am quite happy with my HTC Universal, thanks to its keyboard (though the next device does not have to have a keyboard, if it is able to use a bluetooth keyboard, but that's another cup of tea) it is quite like a PC.
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Still alive ;)
I am still alive. I am preparing an article on how I think graphical user interfaces on (small ~3”) mobile devices should look like for about two weeks now and i am unable to get it ready, as there are innovations every day—and interesting news like OpenMokos' April Software Update, which change some things around concerning existing solutions.
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HTC Universal on Debian with X
My Universal is on Debian Lenny / Titchy Mobile again and it is working great (of course), even X is working. Debian is a nice distribution, and I really like it, since I first tried it. But there was one thing I did not like since that first time: relatively old packages—I prefer to be relatively near to bleeding edge, if there is a new release, I want to try it out soon.
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Time as a problem
My HTC Universal runs with Angstrom again, after a short look at Debian (Titchy Mobile), which I'll use again as soon as there is a working X-Server—because htcunid is a great daemon; phone calls and even GPRS connection are no problem—I tried to integrate it into my Angstrom minimalist GPE image (autobuild unstable), but wasn't successful yet: I didn't notice phone calls, the caller could not hear me and SMS receiving did not work as on debian as well.
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A910 firmware: Number of features to integrate is proportional to number of problems
Sometime ago I wrote about cross-compiling VPNC—it wasn't too hard. But it does not seem to work as it cannot use the WiFi connection—like wget, if I start it from my terminal.