Hello Michael Shiloh, can you please clear this?
* "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18-04-08 17:45]: > I'm re-posting here some mails from the openmoko-devel "Future Button > and LED software spec" thread [1] in which there are some infos about > Freerunner hardware that I think they should be more visible. > > Summarizing, they say that the GTA02v6 hardware version fixes an > hardware bug that causes the LEDs to use about 150mW instead of 25mW. > Btw Werner Almesberger stated there that the first batch of GTA02 to be > sold will be composed by GTA02v5 phones while GTA02v6 hardware will be > sold only in a second phase. > The hardware differencies between the two versions [2] (I've updated > with this LEDs issue) don't seem so worthless since there are some power > fixes (not only this one). > Read below: > > >Andy Powell wrote: > >>Shawn Rutledge wrote: > >>>Werner Almesberger wrote: > >>>Right now, we could only leave them (the LEDs) permanently on, which > >>>comes with a > >>>hefty electricity bill, particularly on GTA02v5 (each LED burns about > >>>150mW). In GTA02v6, this should come down to about 25mW, maybe less. > >> > >>But GTA02v5 is not going to ship, is it? > >> > >>>Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: > >>>>Werner Almesberger wrote: > >>>>Last thing I've heard, the first units will be GTA02v5 :-( > >>>> > >>>>>thomasg wrote: > >>>>>@Werner: do you know - or can you figure out - how many GTA02v5 will > >>>>>leave the factory and reach the customers? > >>>> > >>>>I've heard something like "thousands". However, I've also heard that > >>>>there'll be some sort of fix for the LED problem in these GTA02v5. > >>> > >>>Why this? Why not selling v6 directly? And... Which are other diffs > >>>between v5 and v6? I think that the power usage of every element of the > >>>phone is vital. > >>>And which kind of fix for v5 is planned? > > > >I certainly think that this should be made very very clear to people > >buying the first batches and not just left as a passing comment on the dev > >list. > > So why shipping semi-bugged hardware if there's a fixed version ready? > > [1] http://tinyurl.com/6p2mct > [2] http://tinyurl.com/6knk5m > > -- > Treviño's World - Life and Linux > http://www.3v1n0.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > Tim Niemeyer
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