Christoph Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-09 11:00:16]: > About a few weeks ago, ich asked the guys from Navigon (a german developer > of high quality navigation systems) with an e-mail (navigon.com), wether > they are interested in porting their java-based navigation solution, which > got very good ratings in several tests, to the OpenMoko-platform. And the > best: Till now it's officially a beta version and doesn't cost anything but > runs very stable. But even maybe if it costs some money later, I think > everyone would be happy about a good navigation solution for OpenMoko.
Nice, I would buy it myself. > They wrote back, that they are interested in that thing an have already > heard about it. But they don't know the specs of the Java-VM on OpenMoko (is > there one at all?) and of the gps-chip. Don't know about Java, but information about AGPS[1] chip (amongst plenty of other information) can be found on project's wiki. Anyway it's totaly open platform(if I don't count few exceptions), so they can provide their own version of Java, compatible with Navigon. > But don't missunderstand me: I don't want to become the Navigon solution an > application for all Neo1973 from factory on but as a third party navigation > solution which is still not in sight for this phone. The Navigon-Programm > is not Open-Source. But in matters of free software, everyone should also > have the freedom of choice, in my opinion. Agreed. -- ynezz 1. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Category:Neo1973_Hardware
