On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:41:43PM +0100, Bruce Deschamps wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Bruce, I recently subscribe to the community list and I have been > reading a few of the very interesting threads you've been talking about. I > was wondering if any of you had thought about near field communication > capabilities like using RFID reader and chips to deal with payment, > ticketing, infotainment, or entreprise solutions like tracking by using the > neo1973 and openMoko Framework?
Please note that I as one of the core people behind the software, and now also Neo1973 hardware, have spent much time over the last years with the development of projects like http://openmrtd.org/projects/librfid/ http://openmrtd.org/projects/libmrtd/index.html http://www.openpcd.org/ http://www.openpcd.org/openpicc.0.html http://www.openbeacon.org/ So we definitely know about RFID and NFC stuff ;) > on. I was wondering if there was any possibility to integrate this > functionnality into our upcoming Neo and openMoko? For Neo1973: No way. We are happy to deliver "a very basic smartphone" from the hardware point of it. As you have noticed, even something as simple as that (from the hardware point of view) has caused delays and delays. For our 2008 device plans: We're keeping an eye on it. For something ISO14443-1/2/3/4 compliant it would be possible, since that is open enough. The other side is the chipset. I'm currently not aware of any NFC chipsets that would even allow the driver and other software to be Free Software. And that is a sort of a blocker issue for us. -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ ============================================================================ Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community