Re: Status of resellers (Was: GTA02 preorder please?)
2008/1/22, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Gilles, I've asked for the status of this and will let you all know as soon as I find out. Michael Michael, please, verify also how is the status for resellers in Brasil, ok? []s Massa ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: /. : Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request
This strikes me as a uninteligible answer: 2007/11/29, t3st3r [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i wholeheartedly support this open platform that gives its users the control to turn -any- of its radios on or off at will (of the operator...). This will not help too much.Either you're not in the network or network should be aware about your location.When someone calls you (...) If I don't want to be located, I don't want to be called, either -- think plane mode, no radios on but MP3/AVI player on, agenda on, text editor on, etc. That is what people meant when they say turn off any of its radios at will. I want to have a check button saying GSM radio on/off, other saying GPS radio on/off, other saying WiFi radio on/off. So I can ... drumroll ... turn them off _at_ _will_. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: /. : Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request
I thought I should elaborate: 2007/11/29, Humberto Massa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I don't want to be located, I don't want to be called, either -- think plane mode, no radios on but MP3/AVI player on, agenda on, text editor on, etc. That is what people meant when they say turn off any of its radios at will. I want to have a check button saying GSM radio on/off, other saying GPS radio on/off, other saying WiFi radio on/off. So I can ... drumroll ... turn them off _at_ _will_. Mode of operation: stealth. from time to time, i press a button turn GSM radio on, check voicemail, download all messages, turn GSM radio off. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: /. : Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request
2007/11/26, Jeff Andros [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/25/07, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Can people ever be compelled to supply truthful GPS information to LEO as long as open source cellphones are legal? OK, legal matters aside, your network operators ALWAYS know where your phone is: cell towers can triangulate the position of your phone(it's like reverse GPS... multiple receivers on a single source). Most of the phone IF and only IF the phone GSM radio is ON. That was the what i wholeheartedly support this open platform that gives its users the control to turn -any- of its radios on or off at will (of the operator...). meant, I assume. Phone stays on (so I can web browse via wifi, see my agenda, hear music, see videos, etc,) but no one must know where you are. People used the argument if you didn't do anything wrong in this thread, but they tend to forget: 1. all tech is crackable; 2. bad guys can crack the tech; 3. if you can't turn off the radios, bad guys can know where you are. navigation, at least here in the US uses this technology... not GPS. Which firmware the phone runs is a non-issue.. they don't ask you they ask for that data. Technically the only way to prevent this is to not transmit. It is technically possible to re-write the GSMD to power down the GSM module unless you are placing a call (You'd still be traceable whilst actually placing a call, but not traceable otherwise) the downside is, you wouldn't be able to receive calls. This is a mode of operation that wouls suit me fine. I turn the radio on, the operator sends me a you missed a call from XYZ or a you have voicemail message (80% of the time, at least), I return the call, I turn the radio off again. Stopping the cell towers from tracing you wouldn't help either: It would be possible to set up an alternate antenna farm that decodes enough of the GSM signal to identify the transmitter. Pretty much at this point you should be realizing that there are only two possible ways to fix this: one is the legal things we're not talking about, because that's not my area of expertise (besides, I'm not sure how effective it would be), the other is to stop using any kind of transmitting device... technically anything that uses electricity. -- Jeff O|||O But you can always minorate the problems! ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Innovative user interface idea
On 10/21/07, Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that we need to focus on usability, but that WM6.1 interface is just retarded. Instead of showing all the alternatives in a grid, where you get a good overview and can quickly select an item, you are forced to remebmer where every item is (if you don't like scrolling through lots and lots of options) AND you force the cellphone to render all sub-options of the menus you pass until you get to your desired menu. You could see in the video that it wasn't entirely latency-free. Bleh! Yes, we definitely need to think of the user interface, but mimicing that one would be plain stupid. 2007.2 looks great to me, and infinitely better than WM6.1. /Oliver I have a PSP, and it's interface is carousel-like... it sucks exactly because you must know where everything is. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
