We did see a lot of progress this year in the GTA04 project towards a new open handheld mobile platform running free&open software and trying to respect as many freedoms of the user as possible.
We have seen the delivery of the first batch of the Early Adopter boards (GTA04A3) and several members of this community have greatly improved on the kernel and user space applications. Thanks to those brave guys! On the hardware side the first GTA04A4 board has been produced and tested yesterday. After fixing three minor hardware issues and some issues in kernel, U-Boot and MLO/X-Loader [1] it appears that everything now works as expected! Production rampup will continue in the first week of January so that it will soon become possible to deliver from stock. And, we have now a closer cooperation with OpenPandora so that we will find synergies in software, hardware and production. For the group tour we already have reached 12% subscription and you have to hurry a little since the first early booking rebate will be sold out soon. So here is the new "baby" GTA04A4:
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Higher resolution image: http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner/attachments/20111223/d2bc54bc/attachment-0001.jpg Finally we have already made some experiments with 3D milling and also have a new idea how we can design a case that can be produced at shapeways. So you can expect progress in the area of new cases in the next weeks. Last but not least we have improved the hub page www.GTA04.org so that it should be easier to dig into relevant information starting at a single place. We from Golden Delicious Computers running the GTA04 project wish all a Merry Christmas (or if you don't believe in christian gods: we wish nice holidays :) and all the best for the year 2012. Nikolaus [1]: major fixes: * tristate TPS Voice PCM channel in Linux * initialize GPIO175 and 186 in MLO and X-Loader properly to wake up the UMTS modem * recognize 3G wakeup on GPIO10 * made 'gps echo' command of U-Boot auto-wakeup the GPS chip See commits (X-Loader is not properly tracked in git): https://github.com/goldelico/gta04-kernel/commits/hw-validation http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-uboot/source/changes/gta04e/ http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/20111222-GTA04A4-HW-Tester/src/ These binaries are also compatible to the GTA04A3 board
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