On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, adrian cockcroft wrote:
Hello, I'm new to the OpenMoko lists, but I'm a member of the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club that started up last year at http://www.hbmobile.org . We have been working towards our own family of hardware designs, based mostly on http://www.gumstix.com processor boards, and will be adopting and contributing to whatever software seems useful. We are very happy that the Trolltech Greenphone and the OpenMoko project seem to have kick started an open source community around mobile phone applications, we already have Greenphone-toting members and several of us plan to get OpenMoko's when they ship to developers. Homebrew hardware takes the open phone concept one step further, and uses exclusively components that can be fully documented and specified without needing a manufacturer NDA. We are publishing our designs as we get them done, and I've been playing around with one-off case designs that can be produced on a 3D printer, to accomodate any LCD size and feature set - which has become known as the "my phone" project :-) There is a WiFi and Bluetooth combo card available here that some of us intend to use: http://www.embeddedworks.net/newsite/WLAN/oem_sip_80211g.html So if you want different design features than the Neo1973 offers, you really can go build it yourself rather than grumbling about it on the lists. It should be possible to run most of the OpenMoko software, especially if you stay with the same screen resolution etc. Homebrew designs are harder to minaturize so it works best with bigger format designs based around 3.7" or 4.3" LCDs. Open phones are an idea who's time has come, we look forward to working together.. Cheers Adrian
Nice to see you here, Adrian. I think there are a couple more of us who are on both lists. I encourage other OpenMoko participants to join the SVHMPC list, especially those of you interested in the technical details of the hardware and software. Like this list, members of the SVHMPC list are incredibly knowledgeable, have wonderful insight into the issues and the solution, and are very generous in sharing their knowledge and experience. I have learned a lot by reading both of these lists. Since Etel is near the home base of the SVHMPC, I have taken the liberty of inviting them to the OpenMoko social gathering that will take place during Etel at the end of this month. I look forward to a lively discussion, technical and otherwise. Michael _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
