Taking a step back from my current death march project to list the wishlist features of the next generation OpenMoko. As I learned from Steve Job’s iPhone presentation Allan Kay once said if you take software development serious create your own hardware and now to the feature set.

• A gyroscope. We have played with such things in the late 90s of the last century. And with Rock ‘n Scroll we have seen a nice usage of this feature. We have used auto-rotation in Opie already and we have played games using this device. I don’t know what Apple patented but I’m pretty sure we have prior art. We are doing this stuff for almost a decade.
• Light Sensor, we have used that in Opie for a long time…
• All sort of network connectivity. We use X, we all have seen teleportation of applications. A couple of years ago I have started automatically adapting look and feel of widgets/applications dynamically depending on host operating system, screen resolution and available input devices. I think for any patents to come this is pretty good prior art! So let us combine these two technologies. Connect your OpenMoko device to a TV, pair with a bluetooth keyboard and a mice and export your applications to the big screen and they will adapt look and feel automatically! Go to a public terminal and export your applications. It is secure! Your private data will not leave your device, you will not use network infrastructure not operated by you. You will just use the peripheral and your application will adjust, automatically!

Right I can’t count!