Quim,
well that is good news. I will order mine tout suite. And no, I was not
referring to the openmoko "developer" case but the "end user" case which
is shown above left of the big case in the picture whose url you provided.
Having said that, the developer case itself seems to have a nice,
impactful "presentation" layer to use, for example, when walking into,
say, a US FCC public hearing on the upcoming 700 mhz band auction to
argue in favor of "open network" versus "closed network" or, as I think
of it, it in favor of the "smart (user controlled) device/dumb
network"^1 paradigm. A replay in the world of wireless communications of
the Carterphone decision^2 . Skype is on the right side of this
(re)-debate in the U.S.
^
^1. http://www.rageboy.com/stupidnet.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone
Best Regards,
John Holmblad
Acadia Secure Networks
<mailto:jholmblad at verizon.net>
quim.gil at nokia.com wrote:
> I have just checked Nokia and Nseries websites and the case is there:
> http://europe.nokia.com/n800case
>
> http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n800,accessories
>
>
> On the other hand, are you comparing the N800 case people has been
> asking for with
> http://www.openmoko.com/products-neo-advanced-00-develkit.html ?
>
> I have carried Openmoko's 'mysterious black box' and it's pretty cool.
> Hackers love it, well done. But it's nothing you drop in your pocket.
> It's simply not a case.
>
> Quim
>
>
>
>> All,
>>
>> well this is not good.! Openmoko already has their carrying
>> case available for order:
>>
>> http://www.openmoko.com/products-neo-base-00-stdkit.html
>>
>> Does this mean that the Taiwanese companies are "hitting" on
>> some marketing "cylinders" where Nokia is not?
>>
>> Speaking of Taiwan and China, now let's see who is the first
>> to put a WIMAX chipset into an opensource mobile device. Given
>> that Sprint has just announced that ZTE^1,2 (a Chinese
>> manufacturer) is going to be Sprint's supplier for Cardbus/USB
>> WIMAX adapters, I anticipate that the Openmoko team will push
>> to get a WIMAX version of their platform "tout suite" and get
>> it into the hands of the just announced Sprint/Clearwire WIMAX JV^3 .
>>
>>
>> 1. http://telephonyonline.com/wimax/technology/sprint_zte_cpe_071707/
>>
>> 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE
>>
>> 3. http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=17520
>>
>> --
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> John Holmblad
>>
>>
>>
>> Acadia Secure Networks
>>
>>
>> <mailto:jholmblad at verizon.net>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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