Suggestions for future hardware revisions
Hello community, what do you think of the following possible new hardware additions: 1) NFC (Near Field Communication), see http://www.nfc-forum.org/home This seems likely to become a new craze in the mobile industry - perhaps it is a good idea to already keep an eye on it (I think that Nokia already brought out a phone with such capability) and start looking out for hardware components with open drivers or perhaps even try to initiate such endeavours. 2) More than one (at least two) SIM card slots, preferably active at the same time (!). There are SIM card splitters available, but they only allow one card to be selected at startup time (because the phone of course does not know about the two cards). BTW, did anyone have any luck with putting such a splitter into the Neo? I'm using multiple cards in different phones (business, private, SMS, i.e. depending on use and contract/plan) and it would be just great to have a phone that allows to select which SIM (i.e. contract) to use on-the-fly and also makes it possible to be reachable under all the different numbers on the same device. There are phones which support additional multi SIM add-ons (mostly integrated in a larger battery backpack), but AFAIK there is no phone that does this out-of-the-box. Even if there were - I'd very much like my Freed Phone to be able to do that! ;o) Greetings to all ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Debug board
Hi all, does anyone happen to know if the debug board of the advanced Neo kit will be compatible with future versions of the Neo (or other FIC OpenMoko phones, at that)? Thanks cheers ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Neo Base/Advanced
Hello all, as I'm waiting impatiently for GTA02 to come out, I'm faced with the decision wether to get the Base or the Advanced version. My question is: What exactly are the things that can only be done with the help of the development board? The additional goodies (2nd battery etc) aside, do I *need* the advanced version anyway to tweak the device and/or develop my own apps for the Neo? I'm asking also for practical reasons - the advanced version is not only more expensive, but moreover likely to be considerably heavier and larger (mostly due to the box), which will without doubt drive up shipping costs to Europe to noticeable ;o) levels. But if I'll only get all the functionality that I desire by buying the advanced version, I'll gladly shell out the additional costs for the development hardware and the more expensive shipping. I'd be grateful if anybody could shed some light on this - I browsed around inside the list archives but did not find any information on that. Should there be some related post(s) already, just point me in the right direction (BTW, is there any possibility to directly full-text-search the archives? I didn't see any...) Keep up the good community spirit everybody cheers Wolfy ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
