OSiM San Francisco - March 11-12, 2008 - Calling All Mobile Developers

2008-01-24 Thread William Weinberg
Dear OpenMoko Community Adam Shaw of Informa, the company behind MWC, OSiM and other conferences, asked me to reach out to you, as follows: -- Calling all developers! After the success of OSiM 2007, the largest open source in mobile conference in the world, Informa is pleased to announce

Re: Sean's impact being felt...

2007-11-28 Thread William Weinberg
That's terrific news, but short term, OpenMoko and most other open efforts have limited access to the Verizon network, which is 100% CDMA. Sigh. Bill Ian Darwin wrote: Verizon Wireless opens up In a stunning about-face, the second-largest wireless carrier in the US, Verizon Wireless, has

Re: linuxmobiles.org - a new forum

2007-11-19 Thread William Weinberg
OCCAM'S RAZR - One ought not to multiply entities without necessity. VENT Why does the world need yet another mobile Linux knitting circle? Just because you can buy a domain name doesn't mean you should mint new .orgs. Sigh. Let's all fight fragmentation with more fragmentation. It's the

Re: linuxmobiles.org - a new forum

2007-11-19 Thread William Weinberg
Thank you Thomas! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does the world need yet another mobile Linux knitting circle? Just because you can buy a domain name doesn't mean you should mint new .orgs. RANT It doesn't. There are SO MANY wikis, blogs, news groups, websites, forums etc. set up around

Android isn't a Java Platform - Say Hello to Dalvik

2007-11-13 Thread William Weinberg
Dear OpenMoko Friends See the following blog about the neat tricks that Google performed to sidestep Sun Java licensing requirements. http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/ The short of is - Android code is written to a unique dialect of Java (super/subset) that runs on

Re: Gphone and 850, perspectives

2007-11-08 Thread William Weinberg
I understand distrust of the availability and governance of GPS services by parties outside (and inside) the US, but there is a valid PoV that the rest of world rides free on those demonic US DoD funded satellites. Let's use up more discussion bandwidth cursing the darkness. David Schlesinger

Re: Gphone and 850, perspectives

2007-11-07 Thread William Weinberg
That's a shame. Have a look at the upcoming GSM-enabled h/w from Unicon Systems: http://www.uniconsys.com/ Bill W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just checked the manual, it is 850 / 1900 So it really seems to be a bad idea to continue with NEO here in the states. Real pity as it was about

Re: Gphone and 850, perspectives

2007-11-07 Thread William Weinberg
No, actually Unicon Systems have product coming shortly (Dec/Jan) with smaller and larger screen sizes and more memory, as needed. I have seen it in their offices! Contact Marius Kaz for roadmap and delivery info : Marius Kaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: That's a