Re: GTA03 - timeframe
On Wed Oct 29, 2008 at 08:22:15PM +0100, t m wrote: > Less bulky would be nice. KB would be nice. To be able to phone with it > would also be nice. any timeframe and ideas on whether a hw change like adding a kbd would affect? i mean it would be useful to know things like "gta03 wont exist until q2 2k9" or "90% of people dont care about keyboard, so if you want that just get a HTC G1 and figure out how to load up Illume on it.." i'd vote for touchscreen, so long as the keyboard us usable (havent ever tried or seen a GTA0[12 myself] > ___ > 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: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player
On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 05:41:55PM -0400, Dylan Reilly wrote: > FWIW, the qtopia media player in the testing branch is vastly better > than it was. Volume control even works now without causing distortion! > > From my observations, the audio quality issue has been due to CPU load > and not the player itself. Even in fairly recent builds, the poor > freerunner was pushing very high loads and causing the media player to > mess up it's decoding. Try ensuring that only the media player is > taking CPU time when playing music. does the system slow to an untenable crawl when playing mp3. i mean can you use dillo or webkit at the same time comfortably? whats the CPU usage of mplayer/alsa (no pulseaudio junk etc) do you have to killall -9 mplayer when a call comes in so the ring sound plays, or can you use dmix (does that chew much CPU?) i was a bit too skeptical of GTA03 to make the jump (what with Acer buying Eten, that new Russian phone on engadget, and the MeizuM8 coming _any_day_now_ and android making linux work on loads more hardware...) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro
On Tue Sep 09, 2008 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Al Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:00:36PM +0100, Al Johnson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > > I hope you guys don't mind killing your phone or uSD's memory sooner > > > > than everyone else :) > > > > > > Why? Are you making some unwarranted assumptions about using Gentoo on > > > embedded systems? > > > > No unwarranted assumption, the only argument you could throw back at me is > > an argument against using Gentoo instead of any .deb or .rpm based > > distribution ;) > > > > Please, no distro-war, you're free to kill your flash devices sooner ;) > > I use Gentoo, CentOS, Fedora and Debian so no war here :-) I'm just curious > why you think Gentoo will wear out flash devices sooner than any other distro > if reasonably configured. The key here is probably 'reasonable' as I would > build packages on a more capable machine and use binary-only merges, and > various directories may find themselves mounted over the network. im surprised at the popularity of these 'images' and flashing the entire device surely a distro with piecemeal upgrade puts less wear and tear on the flash and debian's lack of USE/config support means you generally get a larger binary with more stuff enabled - so more wear and tear whats the big fear anywyas. MTFB is like 1 million rewrites, and you have hardware and FS level wear-leveling/block-masking anwyays surely youll want a bigger HD or a phone with 3G and a camera before then > > > ___ > 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: Concept arts. Interface - how I would like it to see.
On Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 12:16:26AM +0200, wp wrote: > Dear Community, > > As first, I want to say thank you for all your great job, by which I can do > what I do now. > > Om2008.* is, (in my opinion!), not very comfortable in use (Qtopia goes way > better, but it is still not what I want). I mean - I know that versions we > have today are not supposed to look good, that everything can get changed > and the biggest prioritaire is to bring it all work flawlessly. I know and > I'm happy with it and I can't stand waiting for everything that lay ahead ;) > > While having some free time, I decided to create some concept arts of > interface. They are created from what we can have today in Qtopia and Om, > but I have added some features and polished them a little. So.. here you go: > > Main idea: http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=structure.png > > And concept arts. > > http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=artconcept1.png > > http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=artconcept2.png > > http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=artconcept3.png ive temporarily enabled javascript and cookies and cant get the images to display. even whe copying the img src= link to the location bar. maybe you want to shrink them down to about 15k each and attach? > > > What is your opinion? Say what you like, and what you don't? Make your own > pics, share it with us. Free the imagination! > > WP > ___ > 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: Sold out aaaah
On Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 12:42:19PM -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote: > http://us.direct.openmoko.com/products/neo-freerunner > Maybe by the time I get a chance to buy one they will have enough > processor power, ram and disk space to replace my laptop. > Every time I even look to buy it I see the "sold out". i believe the strategy is to order from a local distributor eg Koolu for north america > > ___ > 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: trying to buy a freerunner in taipei?
On Thu Jul 31, 2008 at 10:31:29AM +0800, MKL23 wrote: > > What is the requirements to become a distributor? > A firm? Or personal workshop? you know how in a major city you can find a handful of little stores usually operated by someone from China or Taiwan, and grab the latest ASUS, or MSI (or FIC) mobo? itd be great if those places had some openmoko stock im pretty shocked there isnt one in Taipei? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
SDR chip candidates
are there any SD adc/exciter combinations which are open source and suitable for OpenMoko? i know of the QS1R project off hand.. GTA02 has 4 radios, 3 of which can transmit (BlueTooth, GSM, 802.11) and one extremely sensitive to low-power signal (GPS). im sure the RF coupling / capacitance / crosstalk issues that have plagued GPS with SD or Wifi operational, add buzzing to GSM etc will be worked out in due time, in fact i'll be buying a future revision myself.. eventualy it would be nice to get rid of all the radios and consolidate though... i guess some kind of folded J-pole might have enough bandwidth to work well on all the GSMs and 802.11 at once.. 1/4 wl for 850/900 and 3/4 for 802.11.. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
