+1 to Joerg, but don't worry a lot of this speculation garbage about Freerunner or succesors capabilities and what have to do and what not will die onces the freerunner is aviable and used by a miriad of volunters.
Maybe will be another kind of speculation garbage but not this one :). The idea of a 7 segment liquid cristal screen as an usb lcd can be take in count for very critical battery applications that only need the hardware capabilites and some light feedback. --- El vie, 13/6/08, Joerg Reisenweber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > De: Joerg Reisenweber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Asunto: Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!) > Para: community@lists.openmoko.org > CC: "Chris Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: viernes, 13 junio, 2008 9:52 > Am Fr 13. Juni 2008 schrieb Chris Wright: > > Since the alternative to using QVGA is using VGA with > a faster GPU and > > processor, > > One last time: > ...OR USING VGA IN QVGA MODE WITH SAME PROCESSOR, AND > SWITCH TO VGA WHENEVER > YOU NEED THIS RESOLUTION. > > It's all about nothing else than just saving some 5 > bucks on the screen (which > probably will not apply whenever this comes to reality, > because you have to > buy QVGA-screens from antiquities collectors then), and the > allegedly > *better* (huh?) quality of QVGA when compared to a VGA in > QVGA-mode. All of > this are moot arguments!!! > > > and this is a phone that runs on batteries, I'm > inclined to > > encourage the use of QVGA on future Openmoko phones. > And WTF is the rationale behind this??? You're > suggesting we should use slower > cpu for saving battery or what? Yeah our GTA04 will > probably have 8bit cpu > and a 7-segment display, but no screen at all, and 4000h of > standby time. > (btw: standby isn't related to cpu-power-consumption at > all) > > > I have a phone > > from 2002 with a battery that used to last a week; it > annoys me to > > deal with much less than that. > > Don't ask what I'm annoyed of! > Aaahrg, really sorry, but [ignore thread] now (last one of > hw-dev leaving > pointless discussion). > /j_______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ______________________________________________ Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! La bandeja de entrada más inteligente. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community