hmm, your thoughts?
mine? well I am concerned that it will be status quo software wise and so not libre. but if they do software freedom then I'm not sure what it would mean for eoma-*. I suppose at least eoma-* has the advantage of getting to market sooner from the looks of things at phoneblocks - doesn’t look like they have anything any time soon and we do need a decent answer now with climate change/heating needing huge action now and all that.
Come to think of it I guess eoma-68 will still have it's low cost market?
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me wrote:
hmm, your thoughts?
mine? well I am concerned that it will be status quo software wise and so not libre. but if they do software freedom then I'm not sure what it would mean for eoma-*. I suppose at least eoma-* has the advantage of getting to market sooner from the looks of things at phoneblocks - doesn’t look like they have anything any time soon and we do need a decent answer now with climate change/heating needing huge action now and all that.
Come to think of it I guess eoma-68 will still have its low cost market?
EOMA68 is designed to tackle both the low-cost as well as the high-end market. there are plans in place (which will require tooling costs to be paid) to do a 3.3mm high variant that will have the 1920x1080 video output re-established.
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On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 03:14 +0100, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross wrote:
hmm, your thoughts?
It is smartphone centric. Smartphones are dying. What people want is a digital modem module that they can use for VoIP and other things we normally do such as chat, email, text etc. Text for example is dead - Whatsapp and WeChat killed it.
The smartphone would have died its death a long time ago if VoIP was not being actively blocked by the incumbents.
When I pick up the phablet these days, I can't recall using it as a phone for more than 3 minutes per day average. Almost everything I do by voice is carried by VoIP. If smartphones allowed Voip without interfering with it, and it worked across borders, I'd never ever make a phone call using phone features of a smartphone.
On 10/13/14 10:25, joem wrote:
On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 03:14 +0100, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross wrote:
hmm, your thoughts?
It is smartphone centric. Smartphones are dying. What people want is a digital modem module that they can use for VoIP and other things we normally do such as chat, email, text etc. Text for example is dead - Whatsapp and WeChat killed it.
The smartphone would have died its death a long time ago if VoIP was not being actively blocked by the incumbents.
When I pick up the phablet these days, I can't recall using it as a phone for more than 3 minutes per day average. Almost everything I do by voice is carried by VoIP. If smartphones allowed Voip without interfering with it, and it worked across borders, I'd never ever make a phone call using phone features of a smartphone.
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