Salve Mickey! On Wed, 06 Dec 2006, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Atlasz wrote: > > Well, having bluetooth or wifi would be important for me. Any chance, > > that SDIO bluetooth or wifi card could be used with Neo1973? > > Unfortunately not -- for a variety of reasons: > > 1.) sdio cards in micro-sd cards are very rare So micro-sd is a little unlucky desgin decision for a developer device. But because of the design for a mass-marked, probably a price to pay to have a cheap mass-marked device, instead of an expencive embedded developer device. I fear the design is to close to be finished to change this point. Normal-SD, mini-SD and micro-SD differes not only in size, also in the number of connectors. Would be an external mirco-SD to Normal-SD adapter (selfmade hack) possible? > 2.) we have yet to see an open sdio driver for linux A use for SDIO with linux could push the driver development (the same for the SDIO cards like bluetooth or wi-fi) So it will be only a software question, and the hardware would support SDIO? See my question: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-December/000566.html > 3.) our micro-sd slot is between the battery and the PCB -- RF would > be dampened too much There are cards with a small antenna outside the device. Greetings, rob PS: BTW can you say somethink about the GSM audio: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-December/000617.html - will the device will get one light detector? - could the touch sensor work as 2 (or 4) direction light detector? - will the touch detector open engough for to some development? - will there an audio in (mono/stero - frequenzy? 20-20.000 Hz?) - will the SD card slot support SDIO? - realy only micro SD? - sd card slot multiplexing (one normal size *and* 1-3 micro slots)? - power supply for USB slot - how long will the chaging via USB take? See greenphone reports wouldn't worth to have an additional express charging port? - one free SPI port for additional sensors - some nice sensor already on the device inclination/acceleration/ 3d compass/light sensor/barometer/thermometer/MW radio :) http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-December/000579.html _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
