Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 00:31 schrieb Steven **: Seems like xda-developers.com is focused on reverse engineering cell phones. Specifically because the company that made those phones wouldn't give them the information. And that's better than FIC how? HTC phones are commodity hardware

Re: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-12 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 01:42 schrieb Robin Paulson: are we duplicating work? familiar is 6+ years old, i'm sure they must have some good ideas that can be used? maybe we can make openmoko a fork from their project? Robin, please read down to the bottom of the status page. All modern

Re: New HTC Touch

2007-06-05 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 18:17 schrieb Fabien: As a former HTC customer I can only agree: hardware is great Are you joking ? This is the cheapest mass-market HTC design based on OMAP850 CPU. Oleg. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Neo1973 Update!

2007-06-04 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 4. Juni 2007 09:09 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz: Looking at recently released code from coreteam it will be SMedia chip. Yes, having such chip http://www.smediatech.com/product3370.htm would be really nice. And as user of ATI gfx cards I am happy that they do not use ATI chipsets as

Re: Neo1973 Update!

2007-06-03 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2007 17:00 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Phase 2 (GTA-02) will feature: -a 2D/3D-Graphics Accelerator This one needs more clarification. I doubt that it will be some ATI chipset. Oleg. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: GPS Navigation Software (roadster)

2007-05-27 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Sonntag, 27. Mai 2007 16:56 schrieb Flemming Richter Mikkelsen: We could use the prop. maps for navigation, and when we get internet access, we could upload the GPS coordinates to OSM. That way the OSM could be improved without too much effort. We need a nice implementation for this.

Re: Durability of the Neo1973?

2007-05-16 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 02:03 schrieb polz: Can anyone here suggest an HTC phone which can be bought in Europe for less than $400 and can run linux well enough to dial out and somehow connect to a PC ? apropos connect. The acx100_cs works since yesterday, so wifi can be used on Blueangel

Re: Size and weight considerations for future Openmoko devices

2007-05-02 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2007 19:16 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz: Then compare it to HTC Artemis: It has QVGA screen 2.8, cpu: omap850 200MHz, 64M ram, 128M flash. omap850 is probably the worst modern CPU for running Linux. It is slow, undocumented and uses main DRAM for the GSM operation. There

Re: FOSDEM OpenMoko talk now on video.google.com

2007-02-27 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Dienstag, 27. Februar 2007 17:43 schrieb Pedro Aguilar: I don't remember exactly the price of the car kit, I think it was around US$50 I think it was US$70, and includes the GSM antenna. Oleg. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Wifi again

2007-02-17 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Samstag, 17. Februar 2007 12:24 schrieb t3st3r: P.S. As for me, I'm still do not understand, why there is no WI-FI built in. This is a BIG hardware design mistake IMHO. It does not make sense to complain here about the (missing) hardware features. If you urgently need wifi in a phone

Re: Wifi again

2007-02-17 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Samstag, 17. Februar 2007 23:57 schrieb t3st3r: hacking linux to HTC and getting wi-fi to work is not impossible ... The screenshots id=88 and id=89 at http://scap.linuxtogo.org/index.php?page=3 are showing openmoko running on HTC Universal. WiFi is disabled because (guess(!)) openmoko

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-30 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Dienstag, 30. Januar 2007 04:24 schrieben Sie: Then on what basis, Oleg, do you make the statement Free-Software-only is the goal without prefixing that sentence with In my opinion ... ? Because it's an unmoderated community list, and not an

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 02:52 schrieb Mike: If someone from OM chimes in and says OSS-only really is the goal, I'll buy a Palm Treo tomorrow and never look at this project again. Free-Software-only is the goal, but it's unfortunately not easy to achieve and depends on our common efforts.

Re: GIS on the Moko!

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 16:09 schrieb Paolo Cavallini: My idea is to make the same think on the OM platform. The QGIS port to qtopia4.2 should be much easier, don't you think ? Oleg. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 17:30 schrieb Mike: Are you one of the people running the OM project? No. Oleg. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: GIS on the Moko!

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 16:53 schrieb Paolo Cavallini: Sure, but will qtopia have a gps? gpsd(8) does not depend on GUI environment. Oleg. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Another GPS post from a GL engineer

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 16:50 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz: THERE are four basic sorts of GPS: Autonomous - the standard hand-held device that gets a fix in 1 to 3 minutes outdoors Ok, so we have a confirmation from GL that the 50bps datastream is available, can be decoded and used.

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-25 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2007 22:04 schrieb Ortwin Regel: What about DRM Defective by design ? is there a way to bind a program to a sync ID like it's usually done with PalmOS or to a device ID? (It should be possible to bind it to an SD card ID, right?) Don't forget that all data goes

Re: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-24 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 23:09 schrieb Marc Verwerft: 2. The chip in the Neo1973 is a Global Locate AGPS. Anybody know what type? Hammerhead maybe? It is probably the same chipset as in ipaq hw6[59]15: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=SableGPS 3. I understand

Re: When Good Agendas Turn Bad - Linux/GNU, etc

2007-01-24 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2007 00:17 schrieb Dave Crossland: The presence of a proprietary userland binary in the main/official distribution makes it a crippled device which actively impose upon our Freedoms. IMHO the right way to deal with this particular problem is to break the GL

Re: Some clarifications for the AGPS/SUPL/OMA threads in the OpenMoko list.

2006-12-26 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Dienstag, 26. Dezember 2006 03:45 schrieb Marcus Bauer: LTO is a nice convenience for people who ... can't wait out there 45 seconds TTFF. It can't be formulated better :) [1] Sirf Reference guide, 2-7 set almanac, 2-18 set ephemeris

Re: no market - my 2 cents

2006-12-23 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Samstag, 23. Dezember 2006 15:50 schrieb Vinh: Wouldn't it be possible to build a phone based on openMoko, but with another additional hardware? Build a phone ? Only if you are going to finance the hardware development :) IMHO the first non-FIC phone that will be capable of running

Re: no market - my 2 cents

2006-12-22 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Freitag, 22. Dezember 2006 16:52 schrieb Koen Kooi: hw6515 is an outdated device that is not produced anymore. To be fair one should compare with HTC Hermes. qvga/64mb ram/wince versus vga/128MB ram/linux True, but this is only one side of a medal. ATI-accelerated qvga vs samsung

Can The Proprietary GPS Daemon Be Removed?

2006-12-05 Thread Oleg Gusev
On 12/3/06 10:41 AM, Frode edorfaus at xepher.net wrote: My question is: would it be possible to use non-assisted GPS without the proprietary daemon? Nobody concerned about their privacy will want to use the daemon. In the worst-case scenario you should compute the navigation solution from

Re: Is it portable? [scanned]

2006-12-05 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 17:29 schrieb Robert Michel: AFAIK FIC is supporting OpenMoko to build a plattform for their hardware - so why should FIC support developer to publish drivers for Motorola devices inside the OpenMoko SDK? IMHO, you are missing the point of Free Software. FIC is

Re: Is it portable? [scanned]

2006-12-05 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 18:43 schrieb Robert Michel: To think about to use this SDK for other phones, just from the beginning is in my eyes a little bit impolite - and thinking of other phones because of a faster CPU or Wi-fi or a camera to shortsighted and egocentric (I like most to