On 2/17/07, Mike Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/17/07, t3st3r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds like a joke. Can you imagine someone using this solution? Except
> very few (most hardcore) geeks on the planet. Let's remember: mobile
> phone is a PORTABLE device. Bunch of wires from USB hub + hub + usb
> adapter will at least make this thingie hardly usable as, er... phone.
>
> 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. Linux without network is
> something like North Pole without snow. And the only somehow popular
> networking in public places is WI-FI.
> [rest is deleted]
This is not a joke, this is a limitation in the production environment
and time needed to come out with a working product. Please, PLEASE
remember, that the first Neo1973 that comes out IS FOR DEVELOPERS.
You can help write the applications to work with wifi, if you wanted
to. Then, when a production model for CONSUMERS comes out, I can
almost guarantee wifi will be part of the equation, due to mass
acceptance. Also, as I have pointed out, among others, there will be
another -5- more devices coming out based on the OpenMoko platform,
which will expand into devices not strictly phones, but possibly other
wonderful and interesting things. Only time will tell what these 5
more devices will be :)
Well, only if there are decent low-powered open-sourced Wifi devices
at that time.
It's part of the "Free your phone" message.
In v1 of the Neo1973 the only thing that is closed-source is the GPS
module, and that thing only runs in user-space, not in kernel-space,
so you can easily shut it off. The Wifi drivers will have to run in
kernel-space, so in order to be completely open, it'd need to be open
source drivers.
--
Marcel de Jong
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