Shachar Shemesh > The way I figured it out, the GSM module will always be closed. This is > not due to the hardware specs being unknown, but due to the fact that > the law requires a transmitter to be approved by the FCC, and it is > impossible to get an approval for a transmitter that allows anyone to > change the frequencies it transmits in.
Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking, the actual firmware cannot and will not be open sourced, however, other companies allow firmware updates to load firmware created by the manufacturer, just as they do for GPS receiver modules and many other devices. You can update firmware, even as an end user, much in the same fashion as flashing a bios on pc, for most products like this. So although we know the firmware for things like gsm, gps, bluetooth, wifi will not be open source, long term it would be best if FIC worked towards using modules that can be field updated by users. -- Doug _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
