What about the emmc module? Will that module be removable? Or instead a built in emmc, wouldn't be a better choice to add a SD card slot? It would be really great to experiment with operating systems without the risk of corrupting the emmc.
Best regards, Liviu On May 11, 2015 10:37 AM, "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > you may wonder what is going on with this project. Did it turn into a > black hole? Or > did someone do a “rm -rf /“ :) > > No, nothing of that. Therefore, I think we owe you some short status > update on this project. > > There hasn’t been much to report in the last months, but now we have > several news > within some days. > > 1. I have checked again and we can still get the GTM601W, but the > distributor says > the risk is high that OPTION declares EOL any time and in that case we > would have > to make an order of at least 3000 units so that they restart > production just for us. > > This means we must secure these modules for us now, since there is no > replacement > that easily fits into the space constraints of the GTA04 (resp. > GTA01/02 board). > > Cinterion modules would be nice since they are planned for the Pyra and > the Neo900, > but they are approx. 10% too big. > > 2. we see some difficulties in getting the W2SG0084 GPS module, but that > is some > paperwork the distributor has to do with Wi2Wi. > > Nevertheless, this is also a risk candidate for EOL because only one > distributor shows > stock. > > 3. There are also good news: > we participate in the risk buy of Samsung 1GB RAM+512MB NAND chips (as > planned for the Neo900). So the GAT04A5 gets twice as much RAM :) > > This chip has already been tested by reworking a BeagleBoard XM and > modifying > the boot loader (kernel didn’t find the NAND yet, but U-Boot did. This > is a problem > that will jointly be fixed with the Neo900 software team). > > 4. Production: we still are a little away from the quorum of 100 preorders > (at the > moment of this writing we have estimated approx. half = 45 units). So > it is still > not possible to make final decisions about production dates and final > pricing. > > So we need to get a little more support for our project. If you have > ideas, please > let us know or start activities. Many small activities are as good as > a big one! > And we know that this is a niche product that requires an existing > GTA01/02 > device. So it is not possible to “attract the masses”. We must find > and convince > the previous GTA01/02 owners whose devices are collecting dust. There > had been > produced ca. 15k such devices so that we just need another 1/3% or in > other > words only 1 out of 300 GTA02 owners needs to decide for a GTA04A5. > > 5. Regarding the risk buy of the GTM601W, RAM chips and W2SG0084, I plan to > take the budget (~5100 EUR) that we already have collected. > > This will transform the vouchers into ownership of components. So it > has the > consequence that we can’t refund in money (cash, bank transfer) any > more, but > only in unused hardware components (i.e. 100 EUR ~ > 1*GTM601+1*RAM+1*GPS)… > > For future preorder vouchers you would also buy such a component set > (which we > would keep in safe warehouse of course) until we can really build the > whole devices. > > > So quite some news and I would be happy if we can fill up the missing > preorders [1] > sooner than later so that we can start production. Please think about > securing your > set of components for the last production batch of the most open > smartphone platform > that we already have. > > BR and thanks for continued support, > Nikolaus Schaller > > [1]: http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04A5 > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community > http://www.openphoenux.org >
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