Comments on: Two Neo1973s calling each other

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:36:11 +0000

Flash the “most closed-source”??? The virtual machine is open source, the SWF format is open, the Gnash project offers a completely open player and plugin. What seems to be closed here is the community’s mind to a very useful technology.

I’ve developed in Flash with an open source compiler and the player is free. Get off your high horse and download the plugin.

By: Fabian Rodriguez

Fabian Rodriguez — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:51:41 +0000

I don’t mind the videos being posted in YouTube but please also make them available in Ogg Theora. Not everyone can or will use Flash, and most importantly, many of those that won’t use Flash *ever* will probably be among your first customers.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:48:16 +0000

I can’t wait to see more man. I really want this to take off, then i’ll leave sprint…
and to the posted in #5: youtube is viral marketing at its best…they’d be dumb not to promote it there. its good marketing. if they only market it to geeks like us, how are they gonna hit the big time?

By: wondering

wondering — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:59:55 +0000

Why are you guys publishing your video, showing the first opensource-phone in action, at the most closed-source-flash site like youtube?

Please think about the people out there, who don’t want to use such formats…!

By: Phil Haigh

Phil Haigh — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:32:26 +0000

I’m interested in the UG. My attention was drawn to the OpenMoko by the Java Posse podcast, they reported that it will include JSE – Java Standard Edition – and I’m interested in porting stuff onto the OpenMoko and getting it running in a mobile environment – not applets or JME code, but Java client code. I’ve not ordered a phone yet, my need is for a more stable platform than is currently available, with a JRE. Any news on the JRE port?

By: infodroid

infodroid — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:28:54 +0000

@thos:

hmmmmm… i was wrong about it being when the call is answered. probably i was squinting too hard to make out the text.

instead, what i should have reported is that i saw a lag when the call is ended.

in the video, look at the unit on the left. at 24 seconds when the End button is pressed, it changes color. from the time it changes color it is two seconds until the screen updates.

probably a delay when hanging up is minor compared to a delay when answering a call.

in any case i should probably not focus on the negative. i mean, its an excellent looking interface.

By: thos

thos — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:27:44 +0000

@infodroid: I’m not sure what you’re talking about – I can’t see a 2 second pause when answering the call. However, there are still some optimisations to do, so of course we hope it will be snappier in the final release.

By: infodroid

infodroid — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:02:43 +0000

Why is the interface so slow? Surely that will not be released the way it is?

For example, what about the 2-second pause between pressing the “answer” button and then the GUI showing the call being answered?

I really hope you guys are paying attention to such details.