[Gta04-owner] Openmoko Community Survey 2011 – Results

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 16.01.2012 um 16:51 schrieb Bob Ham:

> On 16/01/2012 13:29, Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote:
>> On Mon 16/01/12 13:17 , Bob Ham<rah at bash.sh>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, the question I was asking (and I'm just playing devil's advocate
>>> really) is: why make a *smart* phone at all? Why not just make a simple
>>> "feature phone"?
>>> 
>> The point is that
> 
> I'm asking a question of the GTA04 designers; why, in the past, they choose to design a high-specced "smartphone" rather than a low-specced "feature phone".  The answer to that question is noteworthy, regardless of any other issues.

Short answer: at that time everyone wanted to be innovative and was looking towards higher features than the GTA02 did have. It was consensus that the GTA02 was good but lacking UMTS and high speed graphics.

> 
>> the GTA04 is already designed and AFAIK the design
>> works, so I don't see the point in desiging soemthing else
> 
> I'd be very surprised if the GTA04 was the last open phone ever produced.  That means at some point in the future, a new design will be created.
> 
>> if every device that gets designed is simply discarded
>> at this point in develepment
> 
> Nobody has proposed discarding any design.
> 
>> And besides, I don't see what can be so free in a feature phone.
> 
> The software that runs on it can be free.  Both a "smartphone" and a "feature phone" will run software, for example a dialling application.  That software can be either free or proprietary.
> 
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