Re: [Gta04-owner] Openmoko Community Survey 2011 ? Results
El día Tuesday, January 17, 2012 a las 11:49:00AM +0100, Christoph Pulster escribió: A lot of people gave up and do not want Openmoko phone anymore. The marketing of Openmoko Inc. failed. It was a short-sighted idee to push the news with first open source mobile / free your phone. It resulted in c. 15000 sold units, which is no success story in the long term. Besides it was never a ready-to-use mobile phone for everyday use. Even some Linux-die-for-geeks closed their drawers to store the Freerunner into it. -1 (note: minus 1) Since I got the FR some years ago, I used it with Om2008.9 and now with SHR as my one and only and daily phone; well, maybe because I'm not a Linux-die-for-geek, but a FreeBSD-die-for-geek :-) I will now buy the GTA04, once I get the offer requested :-) matthias -- Matthias Apitz e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Gta04-owner] Openmoko Community Survey 2011 ? Results
People, On 2012-01-17 22:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, January 17, 2012 a las 11:49:00AM +0100, Christoph Pulster escribió: A lot of people gave up and do not want Openmoko phone anymore. The marketing of Openmoko Inc. failed. It was a short-sighted idee to push the news with first open source mobile / free your phone. It resulted in c. 15000 sold units, which is no success story in the long term. Besides it was never a ready-to-use mobile phone for everyday use. Even some Linux-die-for-geeks closed their drawers to store the Freerunner into it. -1 (note: minus 1) Since I got the FR some years ago, I used it with Om2008.9 and now with SHR as my one and only and daily phone; well, maybe because I'm not a Linux-die-for-geek, but a FreeBSD-die-for-geek :-) I will now buy the GTA04, once I get the offer requested :-) +1-1 I bought the FR as an experiment and didn't use it day-to-day - I played with every new version and was quite interested in the GPS functionality. Sometime later my old phone died and by then QtMoko was nice enough to use as a daily phone but there are still some limitations (battery life, hard to hear in non-quiet situations, GPS app problems etc). I am a Linux geek but a fairly light mobile phone user - I just couldn't justify spending another big chunk of money on something that uses the same case . . My 2c Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Gta04-owner] Openmoko Community Survey 2011 ? Results
Am 17.01.2012 um 11:49 schrieb Christoph Pulster: A lot of people gave up and do not want Openmoko phone anymore. The marketing of Openmoko Inc. failed. It was a short-sighted idee to push the news with first open source mobile / free your phone. It resulted in c. 15000 sold units, which is no success story in the long term. Besides it was never a ready-to-use mobile phone for everyday use. Even some Linux-die-for-geeks closed their drawers to store the Freerunner into it. I think the key problem was neither the device nor the software itself. It was how everything was organized. Too many restarts from scratch instead of fixing the issues everyone was aware of... The way out of this dead-end would be advertising the Freerunner as 100% open source project platform with GSM functionality, mainly aiming to business-customers, which base a solution on this hardware. Some intrepid small companies tried it, but support on Openmoko site was poor, so they quit soon. Pushing this way of business, the sales would Business customers also need a long-term commitment that the devices will remain in production and development as long as possible. This was not given with stopping the GTA03 device shortly before it was finished. be factor 10x at least, which would help to survive Open Source companys as Openmoko. I suggest the same thing to GTA04. There are very few geeks left who are willing to pay 500+ euro for a so-lala-working piece of hardware with no nice looking case at all. The GTA04 is open to any small or large company who wants to experiment with the GTA04 board and wants to make business out of it and ordering larger quantities. We also have a special feature of the GTA04: the design process is very flexible even for low quantities. Add an RFID reader, replace the display etc. A sample is the GTA04-Custom device. Try this with one of the big 5 :) Thanks for pointing out this additional feature of the GTA04. the idea is good, but the world isn't ready yet (Tocotronic, http://www.juzp.net/SDh4oshWf0GPO) But still better than The idea was good, but the world has gone ahead... Nikolaus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Gta04-owner] Openmoko Community Survey 2011 ? Results
El día Tuesday, January 17, 2012 a las 11:05:22PM +1100, Philip Rhoades escribió: I bought the FR as an experiment and didn't use it day-to-day - I played with every new version and was quite interested in the GPS functionality. Sometime later my old phone died and by then QtMoko was nice enough to use as a daily phone but there are still some limitations (battery life, hard to hear in non-quiet situations, GPS app problems etc). I am a Linux geek but a fairly light mobile phone user - I just couldn't justify spending another big chunk of money on something that uses the same case . . Concerning some of your points: battery life: this was always an issue while using Om2008.9; sometimes I just ended up with a brick with no power; this was because suspend was not working reliable, or better wakeup was not; now with SHR my FR is always in suspend mode and wakes up fine on any incoming call, on SMS, on Alarm; I run days(!) without looking for a recharge, really! as well GPS is working like a champ, I start tangoGPS and after a few seconds (in clear sky) the FR knows where we are; give SHR a try (I'm running some stable version of 2010, I think) matthias -- Matthias Apitz e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Information about linux drivers for voice in neofreerunner........
Hi, I'm a development engineer at a firm and I'm working on a project of encrypted voice communication using gsm. So, with the open functionality provided by NeoFreeRunner, I opted for this phone. Currently i'm unable to find any help related with real time voice processing and my target kinda desires it. I want to know if there are any embedded linux drivers available for accessing the IIS port of it's MCU. And can i get any direction about how to manipulate voice in it's application processor if there's any sample code available. Thanks With Regards, Arslan Mumtaz Abbasi. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Information about linux drivers for voice in neofreerunner........
Arslan Abbasi arslanabbasi2...@gmail.com writes: accessing the IIS port of it's MCU. And can i get any direction about how What's IIS port? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Information about linux drivers for voice in neofreerunner........
The Inter IC sound pins interfaced with the audio codec. I need help regarding any sound manipulation on this platform, if any code is available. Thanks! On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Arslan Abbasi arslanabbasi2...@gmail.com writes: accessing the IIS port of it's MCU. And can i get any direction about how What's IIS port? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Information about linux drivers for voice in neofreerunner........
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 07:16:06 Arslan Abbasi wrote: The Inter IC sound pins interfaced with the audio codec. I need help regarding any sound manipulation on this platform, if any code is available. IIRC there was a program which recorded phone call if this is what you need. I dont know how it's done on GTA02 but on GTA04 phone modem is just another sound card which can be used by alsa programs. E.g. you can play mp3 instead of speaking. Regards Radek ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
