Re: no-cap bass fix

2010-03-24 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Wednesday 24 March 2010 16:22:15 Joerg Reisenweber wrote: This is *STRONGLY DISCOURAGED* and will break quite a couple of things. Details see inline below [Stefano Cavallari Di 23. März 2010]: Yesterday night I was going to fix the poor audio response of the Freerunner. Just

no-cap bass fix

2010-03-23 Thread Stefano Cavallari
Yesterday night I was going to fix the poor audio response of the Freerunner. Just before starting to solder (having opened the phone and the metallic plate) I discovered the caps I got were the wrong ones. So I looked at the scheme for an alternative solution, and I decided to try to replace

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-24 Thread Stefano Cavallari
What about opening a free blog and write your thoughts/happenings there? You can post the URL here ONCE, so whoever is following you and/or willing to help will be able to continue. There is a reason there isn't a single global mailing list for everything. I hope you understand this. Don't ever

digital audio paths (Was: Re: Experimental technique for testing call audio quality? )

2010-01-22 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Friday 22 January 2010 20:13:58 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no writes: the same quality as this, by tweaking volume settings. Calls are digital The audio data is fed to the GSM chip in analog form however. If the FR sound quality is too bad, consider a

Re: IDA Systems Freerunner sales update

2008-08-13 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 15:46:44 Flyin_bbb8 wrote: Yes but having a creditcard payment method is preferable than wire transfers, as you'll have to go to your bank, fill a form.. da da da... Decent banks have an online e-banking site. Wire transfers are generally cheaper too. Don't know in

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-06 Thread Stefano Cavallari
X certainly can do that, but AFAIK without specs you can't do hardware scaling, so using anything different than the screen resolution would be slow and/or use too much cpu thus drain the battery. On Friday 06 June 2008 09:08:41 David Samblas Martinez wrote: Carsten, There is any posibility

Re: 2.5mm or 3.5mm

2008-05-30 Thread Stefano Cavallari
I'm for B, as I'd like to use a phone as a music player. Most people use a bluetooth headset, and anyway there are some 3.5 headsets if one don't like bt ones. 3.5 connectors are easier to solder, too. Thank you for asking, you demonstrate you really care about what customers *actually* want!

Re: Do we REALLY need a phone?

2008-04-21 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Monday 21 April 2008 08:54:15 Shawn Rutledge wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Stefano Cavallari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you just provide some module to access the chosen network, like a SDIO card (probably with a big external part like most wifi ones). I was thinking

Do we REALLY need a phone?

2008-04-20 Thread Stefano Cavallari
(sorry for the length of this message) I was thinking today about how the phone system is quite dead without no one noticing it. We are paying unreasonable tariffs for just sending data which happens to be voice. The whole motivation behind having a number is no longer existent as with

Re: Do we REALLY need a phone?

2008-04-20 Thread Stefano Cavallari
20, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Stefano Cavallari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (sorry for the length of this message) I was thinking today about how the phone system is quite dead without no one noticing it. We are paying unreasonable tariffs for just sending data which happens to be voice. The whole

Re: Do we REALLY need a phone?

2008-04-20 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Sunday 20 April 2008 15:14:58 ramsesoriginal wrote: [...] I also would say that I don't know about Stefano, but i thought of this as a modular system when I read this mail: If you feel the need for gsm you put in the gsm module, if you think oyu need 4g you put in that chip, and if you

Re: Data over normal GSM call

2008-04-15 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Monday 14 April 2008 21:00:34 Harald Welte wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:57:02PM -0500, Hans L wrote: [...] AFAIR, the DTMF key press is encoded and send over the Um (air) interface to the BTS/BSC/MSC and then in the end converted into actual audible sounds. Please see Page 22 of

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Friday 25 January 2008 01:00:06 Fabian Olesen wrote: this will not work in denmark, because the phone will be deemed capable of doing it. Why? The phone itself isn't capable to play anything until you add the software. It has a stereo audio circuitry, but it could be used just to listen and

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Friday 25 January 2008 16:00:58 Colan Schwartz wrote: I definitely don't think FIC (or now Openmoko) should include the cost (if there is one) of the licence to play MP3s. I don't want to pay that, and I don't think anyone else should either. I'm happy with just Ogg and FLAC files.

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Friday 25 January 2008 16:14:17 Stefano Cavallari wrote: On Friday 25 January 2008 16:00:58 Colan Schwartz wrote: I definitely don't think FIC (or now Openmoko) should include the cost (if there is one) of the licence to play MP3s. I don't want to pay that, and I don't think anyone else