Re: camera in the next version ? (for augmented reality app)

2007-01-25 Thread Ben Lau
On 1/25/07, CLG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on augmented reality (marker based) platform for mobiles, and OpenMoko looks interesting. However lack of camera is a bummer. Are there any interes for the camera in the next version, or I'm only one who would like to see it ? Camera have

Neo1973: Mobile Phone or Mobile Computer?

2007-01-25 Thread Shu Hung (Koala)
On 1/25/07, Miquel Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: Why don't we just use the Flash for Linux 9 on OpenMoko? We may also use Minimo http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo on OpenMoko as browser, too. AFAIK minimo is for Windows Mobile, isn't it? Cheers Miquel

Re: Free This Mailing List!

2007-01-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 24/01/07, Richard Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:05, David Ford wrote: Please do not personally CC: me on this silly thread. I am subscribed to the list. I think this is a problem for people using Outlook or Gmail Yes, I am a GMail user, and apologies

Re: OMG wiki license

2007-01-25 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Aloril [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070125 08:33]: As subject implies I have proposal I fear might lead to long flamewar. I hope I'm wrong. Given these assumptions/facts: 1) We want to copy stuff from unofficial wiki to official wiki when it becomes available. 2) Unofficial wiki doesn't have

Re: OMG wiki license

2007-01-25 Thread Richard Franks
IANAL (or a hobby lawyer!) but I think if someone has contributed to the unofficial wiki without checking for a license, and without specifying their own license... then there is no copyright issue as the contributors have implicitly put their words into the public domain? At least, I think it

Itch2: Trivial to use Go game program

2007-01-25 Thread Aloril
Go program that would allow start playing Go without even reading rules. Animations would 'explain' liberties and solidly connected units of stones by flashing them for a short time after move. Especially combined with touch screen should allow even 2-3 year old children to play Go against

RE: embedded system research (was: Re: request for openmoko-devel list)

2007-01-25 Thread Crane, Matthew
To relate this to the list, I'd say what embedded system could you install that could provide optimal integaration and synergy with an opensource phone. Wi-fi, maybe a file server. The slug provides a great low-cost embedded platform that's easy to get.. Maybe instead, use the OpenMoko device

open-source Java VM for openmoko?

2007-01-25 Thread Bob Deanna
Hello all, Will a Java VM, such as JamVM (see http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/) be a part of the openmoko software stack? I think this is a very exciting effort! Regards, Bob ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: R: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-25 Thread Marc Verwerft
Michele, Robert already had quite some info on the AGPS, even before I asked the question. Have a look at http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-November/000118.html Regards, Marc. On 1/25/07, Michele Manzato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some additional questions on this subject:

Re: Ready For Prime Time?

2007-01-25 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Duncan Hudson writes: That's encouraging - I am anxiously awaiting the Neo. But it doesn't answer the question as to whether or not an FCC filing has been made. Maybe it can be used elsewhere on 3/11, but it can't be used in the US unless it's been certified by the FCC. Generally when the

Re: Neo1973: Mobile Phone or Mobile Computer?

2007-01-25 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Shu Hung (Koala) writes: Koala Yeung P.S. May I ask one thing: Does application runs on i386 runs on OpenMoko with the same binary? No. The phone uses an ARM processor, which is a completely different instruction set. ___ OpenMoko community mailing

RE: Ready For Prime Time?

2007-01-25 Thread Sam Kome
Joe, As with many US gov sites, the information scent isn't as strong as it could be, but start here: https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/cf/eas/ You'll want the 'Generic Search' link on the left, Reports menu. When you find a phone (I haven't looked for Neo yet, I suspect it hasn't been filed),

Re: R: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 14:38 +0100, Michele Manzato wrote: 1. Is there any A-GPS standard whatsoever? The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has defined a couple of protocols how to provide assistance data on the mobile network layer. This is mostly important in emergency situations (911/112 calls) to

RE: Ready For Prime Time?

2007-01-25 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Sam Kome writes: As with many US gov sites, the information scent isn't as strong as it could be, but start here: https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/cf/eas/ You'll want the 'Generic Search' link on the left, Reports menu. When you find a phone (I haven't looked for Neo yet, I suspect it hasn't

Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-25 Thread Bryan Fink
Hi all. I've been talking up OpenMoko to everyone I know, and I felt like there may be some people around here who would be interested in the reactions I've gotten. The main camps are as you would expect: positively-excited, negatively-excited, and indifferent. What I think is interesting, is

Re: Some thoughts: 1GB flash hack possible? Or why not shipping 1GB directly?

2007-01-25 Thread Harald Welte
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:10:11AM +0100, Pierre Hébert wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 24 January 2007 01:47, Justyn Butler wrote: So my answer to your question is: perhaps not from your USB memory stick, but you will be able to upgrade the flash chip if you've a little experience with surface

Re: OMG wiki license

2007-01-25 Thread Harald Welte
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:29:47AM -0500, Richard Franks wrote: then there is no copyright issue as the contributors have implicitly put their words into the public domain? Public domain only exists in the UK/US common law countries. I for example, as a German citizan, cannot put something

Re: R: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-25 Thread Harald Welte
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:38:20PM +0100, Michele Manzato wrote: Some additional questions on this subject: 1. Is there any A-GPS standard whatsoever? no. It's a broad term for many variants of GPS 2. I have heard elsewhere (Wikipedia) that in A-GPS the computation effort is shared between

Re: R: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-25 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070125 16:07]: As all the TomTom gadgets prove: it isn't. GPS works pretty well without the A. Well, it does or not. The question is, does AGPS help with accuracy? Just an observation, that my builtin car navigation, which got GPS and travel information from

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25/01/07, Bryan Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also surprisingly, the one truly negatively-excited person I met said exactly this, Great, so I'll have a phone that just randomly crashes for no reason. I know that he has run Red Hat Linux, and codes for a living. But, he has had poor

Re: R: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 16:39 +0100, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: Well, it does or not. The question is, does AGPS help with accuracy? AGPS is a marketing term invented by the mobile industry and their caterers. The reference docs for the SiRF binary protocol simply calls these functions set ephemeris

Re: R: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 16:24 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: 3. A-GPS involves additional data traffic and thus (potential) additional costs. Does it use a normal GSM/GPRS IP-based data transfer? does it use some out-of-band GSM/GPRS control messages? or does it get data from broadcasts in the

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-25 Thread Peter A Trotter
Hi Bryan, That's quite interesting feedback. I have only really brought this subject up with developer mates and one gadgetophile. The heavily windows leaning developers have expressed a cool enthusiasm but that will warm when they can see a product and get an idea for the sort of apps that are

GPS Power Requirements

2007-01-25 Thread Jonathon Suggs
There has been a lot of talk about GPS recently. There are some really good ideas floating around, but before people start getting really excited the BIG question is what is the power draw on the device? Will you be able to keep the GPS receiver on constantly without having the battery get

Re: GPS Power Requirements

2007-01-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 10:23 -0600, Jonathon Suggs wrote: There has been a lot of talk about GPS recently. There are some really good ideas floating around, but before people start getting really excited the BIG question is what is the power draw on the device? Will you be able to keep the

planet.openmoko.org

2007-01-25 Thread Justyn Butler
Sorry if this is old news, but Harald Welte has announced on his blog that planet.openmoko.org is up. It's great to read some blog posts from people that I didn't even know were involved. Can't seem to subscribe to the whole planet through RSS though (only individuals), perhaps I'm being dense.

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-25 Thread Bryan Fink
On 1/25/07, Peter A Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reckon I'll get a few developer converts for the phone if not to a desktop flavour of linux. That's actually something I'm anxious to see. Given that it's non-trivial to buy a computer (in the U.S.) with linux pre-loaded, and that people

Re: open-source Java VM for openmoko?

2007-01-25 Thread Scott Oberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is a jamvm package that is checked into the OpenEmbedded (jamvm_1.3.0-jamvm_1.4.2), so I think that it will be available soon after the release. Koen Kooi did some initial work on testing a CDC build, see the following link. Thanks Koen! I'm

Re: GPS Power Requirements

2007-01-25 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Marcus Bauer wrote: 5mW if you get a fix every ten seconds. 10 seconds is a pretty big interval. Where did you get that information from? Is there a table that shows the draw/polling interval? Where is the documentation for the chip? Can its polling interval be controlled? Who is working on

Re: R: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-25 Thread Harald Welte
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 05:12:09PM +0100, Marcus Bauer wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 16:24 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: 3. A-GPS involves additional data traffic and thus (potential) additional costs. Does it use a normal GSM/GPRS IP-based data transfer? does it use some out-of-band

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-25 Thread michael
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Bryan Fink wrote: Hi all. I've been talking up OpenMoko to everyone I know, and I felt like there may be some people around here who would be interested in the reactions I've gotten. The main camps are as you would expect: positively-excited, negatively-excited, and

Gesture command

2007-01-25 Thread Foucault de Bonneval
Hi all, I was thinking of BT profiles and of people who constantly move form home to car to office to client ... So changing BT profile must be easier that calling a number or accessing diary, phonebook. So what do you think about having gesture recognition running to call events such as : -

RE: open-source Java VM for openmoko?

2007-01-25 Thread Bob Deanna
Scott, Thanks for the info! I personally have no preference between Java and .NET. I am also equally interested in support for ikvm on openmoko as well. There was a thread of discussion on this topic on the ikvm development email list. J2ME CDC would be just fine, but as you state J2SE

Re: GPS Power Requirements

2007-01-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:08 -0600, Jonathon Suggs wrote: Marcus Bauer wrote: 5mW if you get a fix every ten seconds. 10 seconds is a pretty big interval. Where did you get that information from? I don't have a link at hand, but the GL chip consumes 50mW in continuous mode and gets a fix

Re: Some thoughts: 1GB flash hack possible? Or why not shipping 1GB directly?

2007-01-25 Thread Pierre Hébert
On Thursday 25 January 2007 16:16, Harald Welte wrote: The Neo1973 is accessing NAND flash directly via a industry-standard NAND flash interface, which is a special-purpose interface where you serially shift in the address and parallel read back of the data. Yes you're right ! Pierre.

Re: planet.openmoko.org

2007-01-25 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 16:46, Justyn Butler wrote: Can't seem to subscribe to the whole planet through RSS though (only individuals), perhaps I'm being dense. http://planet.openmoko.org/rss20.xml There is no link on the site for it. Anyway, it's standard planetplanet. :) regards

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:00 +0100, Ortwin Regel wrote: The only situation where I can see the accelerometer being really useful is where Apple is using it: For changing the screen orientation of things according to how you hold the phone. An accelerometer is a nice to have for navigation too.

Re: How to get involved (HELP!!!)

2007-01-25 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia czwartek, 25 stycznia 2007 20:02, Rodolphe Ortalo napisał: MACHINE = native will use your host toolchain and will build binaries for your environment. You can also use MACHINE = progear (its my x86 webpad config) and then use resulting packages/rootfs under chroot or qemu. Is it

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25/01/07, Wil Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd imagine if you draw parallels to the internet, the issue of malware and viruses inevitably crop up. Just telling people Linux is more secure probably doesn't alleviate fears. I probably wouldn't know what to say. Anyone wanna take that one?

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-25 Thread Tomasz Zielinski
2007/1/25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Great stuff to impress the ladies! ;) Please refrain from making any comments of a sexist or sexual orientation nature. Am I allowed to reveal my gender? I'm affraid it can be offensive, too... -- Tomek Z.

Why not switching automaticaly? Re: Gesture command

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Foucault! On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Foucault de Bonneval wrote: I was thinking of BT profiles and of people who constantly move form home to car to office to client ... So changing BT profile must be easier that calling a number or accessing diary, phonebook. matter of personal

The man behind it all

2007-01-25 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Sometimes it helps to put a face with a name. Anyway, found this link and thought the community might want to see who is leading the charge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRvtAAXTIlg ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Free This Mailing List! (was Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone))

2007-01-25 Thread Renaissance Man
On 24 Jan 2007, at 7:13 pm, David Schlesinger wrote: Where did I, or anybody else, DEMAND that OpenMoko give credit to GNU? Dave Crossland's demanded it on a couple of occasions. Go back and reread his latest messages, particularly his message of 6:13 am this morning. It might help

intelligent (system-wide) profile switching. gestures and events (Was: Re: Why not switching automaticaly? Re: Gesture command)

2007-01-25 Thread Declan Naughton
Reading this, a potentially handy feature hit me, so I'm letting it out. We should (and we probably will/do.. my nokia 6310 or whatever it is does, like pretty much all nokias, and all phones) support multiple, renamable profiles, defining ringing tone volume, background image, /perhaps

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-25 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2007 22:04 schrieb Ortwin Regel: What about DRM Defective by design ? is there a way to bind a program to a sync ID like it's usually done with PalmOS or to a device ID? (It should be possible to bind it to an SD card ID, right?) Don't forget that all data goes

Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-25 Thread Mary Stovel
Just a few thoughts. I recently discovered OpenMoko while researching the Apple iphone. I am not a developer, but enjoy reading this forum. I do not think the average user knows much about... the concept of locked and unlocked... much less open. I am your general user, looking for

Re: intelligent (system-wide) profile switching. gestures and events (Was: Re: Why not switching automaticaly? Re: Gesture command)

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Declan! Maybe is a general system-wide profile switching not intelligent enough? Of course it will be usefull but maybe there will be more possible. Declan Naughton schrieb am Donnerstag, den 25. Januar 2007 um 20:58h: Reading this, a potentially handy feature hit me, so I'm letting

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25/01/07, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking, if the OpenMoko phone had an easy way for people to add applications like the Widgets, the average user would like it. ( I would be willing to pay the developer after a trial). I guess the most software will be free...

Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Marcel de Jong
Hello all, I was wondering. I'm not a developer, at least not by profession; I do have a degree in it but my coding skills are very rusty, I'm a software tester (TMAP, but not yet certified). So I'm not really a developer, but I'd still like to get me a phone in March. (can't wait till

Re: Free This Mailing List! (was Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone))

2007-01-25 Thread Marcel de Jong
I think we've heard the viewpoints of both sides... In my humble opinion, this whole discussion (while it showed some good viewpoints on both sides) is a bit premature. We haven't seen any documentation from the Openmoko team that suggests that they use one notation or the other. As Sean already

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Marcel de Jong wrote: Hello all, I was wondering. I'm not a developer, at least not by profession; I do have a degree in it but my coding skills are very rusty, I'm a software tester (TMAP, but not yet certified). So I'm not really a developer, but I'd still like to get me a phone in

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-25 Thread Marcel de Jong
Hello Ortwin, On 1/25/07, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like open source and stuff but some things, especially games, are closed in many cases. What are the possibilities for selling closed software for OpenMoko devices? Will there be a central online marketplace? I think that there

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Marcel de Jong
On 1/26/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcel de Jong wrote: Hello all, I was wondering. I'm not a developer, at least not by profession; I do have a degree in it but my coding skills are very rusty, I'm a software tester (TMAP, but not yet certified). So I'm not

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Marcel de Jong writes: On 1/26/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcel de Jong wrote: I was wondering. I'm not a developer, at least not by profession; I do have a degree in it but my coding skills are very rusty, I'm a software tester (TMAP, but not yet certified).

Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-25 Thread Ortwin Regel
I share your opinions but try to tell that to some developers... :-/ They feel safer if they can bind their program to only work with one hotsync ID, one device, one SD card... Even if it does not work. It would be nice if some more developers could be convinced that selling without restrictions

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Marcel de Jong
On 1/26/07, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcel de Jong writes: On 1/26/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcel de Jong wrote: I was wondering. I'm not a developer, at least not by profession; I do have a degree in it but my coding skills are very rusty, I'm a

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-25 Thread Marcel de Jong
On 1/26/07, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I share your opinions but try to tell that to some developers... :-/ They feel safer if they can bind their program to only work with one hotsync ID, one device, one SD card... Even if it does not work. It would be nice if some more developers

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Ortwin Regel
I'll risk it anyway... Guess it'll be a rough ride, then, but I'm up for that. Can't wait another six months for the phone of my dreams. :P On 1/26/07, Marcel de Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/26/07, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcel de Jong writes: On 1/26/07, Michael 'Mickey'

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Marcel de Jong wrote: On 1/26/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcel de Jong wrote: Hello all, I was wondering. I'm not a developer, at least not by profession; I do have a degree in it but my coding skills are very rusty, I'm a software tester (TMAP, but not yet

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Marcel de Jong writes: Those of us drooling for one of the early phones, knowing what we're letting ourselves in for, are the beta testers... Heh, you've got a point there. I know I'm drooling for one of those. And if we can somehow backup the phone to do some testing, that'd would be great.

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Marcus, please watch your tone on this mailing list. You obviously didn't follow the news closely otherwise you would have already known about http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/announce/2007-January/00.html, which clearly indicates the roadmap and talks about September for mass market

Please no spreading flame wars about licence and free software in every thread!

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Dave and all others who loves to discuss about eggs from an unborn bird! I hope that this thread will not blow up like the GNU/Linux discussion, by people which hasn't consider that Harald Welte is behind OpenMoko nor Seans presentation in Amsterdam that making money with OpenMoko/Neo1973

Re: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-25 Thread Sven Gothel
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:01, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Hammerhead http://www.infineon.com/cgi-bin/ifx/portal/ep/channelView.do?channelId=-65315channelPage=%2Fep%2Fchannel%2FproductOverview.jsppageTypeId=17099 They state Multiple mode operation * MS-based (calculation of position

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 01:53 +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Marcus, please watch your tone on this mailing list. It shall be. You obviously didn't follow the news closely otherwise you would have already known about

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Pranav Desai
On 1/25/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcel de Jong wrote: Hello all, I was wondering. I'm not a developer, at least not by profession; I do have a degree in it but my coding skills are very rusty, I'm a software tester (TMAP, but not yet certified). So I'm not

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-25 Thread Bryce Leo
On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please refrain from making any comments of a sexist or sexual orientation nature. What exactly would be of a sexual orientation nature. He's not saying that you have to impress ladies. You could impress men, little children, cats, dogs,

Re: emulator something like greenphone vmware?

2007-01-25 Thread Richi Plana
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 21:14 +0100, Rodolphe Ortalo wrote: Le jeudi 25 janvier 2007 à 10:20 +0200, Denis Kot a écrit : Hi all I did searching by lists but didn't find anything about emulator, so my question is: is there will be something like emulator like greenphone has? so I (and

Some thoughts about the real importanted dates for OpenMoko/Neo1973 3GSM World 2007 Barcelona this year ...Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Marcus,*! On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Marcus Bauer wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 01:53 +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Marcus, please watch your tone on this mailing list. It shall be. It? Respect is the absolute basic for communication and cooperation. The fact that I didn't answer

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 02:16 +0100, Stefan Schmidt wrote: An you mean insulting people and guessing about facts helps us here? I don't think so. Stop insulting I'll refrain from harsh words. buy your phone in march I'd buy it today already if it would be available. and show us what

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Jason Elwell
I'd also like to know if the hardware is likely to change between March and September. I *am* a developer, but that doesn't mean I want to buy another phone is 6-8 months :) -Jason On Thursday 25 January 2007 19:49, Pranav Desai wrote: On 1/25/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The man behind it all

2007-01-25 Thread Todd W
From: Jonathon Suggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes it helps to put a face with a name. Anyway, found this link and thought the community might want to see who is leading the charge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRvtAAXTIlg Wow that's really cool. Very interesting to watch. The excitement

Re: Some thoughts about the real importanted dates for OpenMoko/Neo1973 3GSM World 2007 Barcelona this year ...Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 03:42 +0100, Robert Michel wrote: I don't think that people buy a new phone to going on holiday with the new phone - AFAIK the most phones are sold November-January. People buy phones all year round. And those that do so before their holidays will come back and make

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-25 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 01:17:56 26.01.2007 UTC+01 when Ortwin Regel did gyre and gimble: OR I share your opinions but try to tell that to some OR developers... :-/ They feel safer if they can bind their program OR to only work with one hotsync ID, one device, one SD card... I bet it's not the

A cool device must have a powerfull e-book reader

2007-01-25 Thread Ketut P. Kumajaya
I have ported FBReader for Motorola E680i/A780 mobile phone and I am sure FBReader author only need a couple hour time to make it run on OpenMoko if he has access to OpenMoko device. http://only.mawhrin.net/fbreader -- Using Motorola E680i email

Re: WiFi

2007-01-25 Thread Richi Plana
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 15:11 +, Tom Berger wrote: I'm new to the list, so I don't know whether this was already discussed, but I'm surprised (and a bit sorry) that the OpenMoKo spec doesn't include WiFi I guess it's just as well that the first version didn't contain WiFi as the specs for

Re: emulator something like greenphone vmware?

2007-01-25 Thread Richi Plana
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:08 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: If I understand the original poster correctly, he's looking for a hardware emulator. Personally, I would like to see an emulator for the Samsung s3c2410 as well. What instruction set does it use? Its own? ARM? Is there an emulator? Can the

dialer interface questions

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Andros
something I've been wondering about for a long time, but haven't asked: in the interface shots, it looks like the phone is looking up contacts as you type... or maybe it's just showing a list of recent/common contacts. if it's just showing a list of recent/favorite contacts, that's cool, we can

RE: celluar data network speed comparison WAS: Re: verizon and openmoko

2007-01-25 Thread Dean Collins
Thanks Todd, I'm sure the Qualcomm investors will be pleased :) Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph +1-917-207-3420 Mb +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). -Original Message- From: Todd W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 January

Re: LiMo foundation

2007-01-25 Thread Richi Plana
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 16:02 -0500, Anthony Taylor wrote: Well, now. This is interesting: http://www.limofoundation.org/sf/sfmain/do/home I would like to know whether OpenMoko intends to meander its way towards following one of the eventual standards. Personally, I'd like to see a common

Re: dialer interface questions

2007-01-25 Thread Richi Plana
I don't mean to toot my own horn (up till June of 2006, I worked for Zi Corporation as a developer), but you should really check out Qix http://www.zicorp.com/Qix.htm. Unfortunately, most of that stuff is likely patented. I'm not even sure how I can go about developing for OpenMoko since I worked

Re: dialer interface questions

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Andros
hmmm, I think all we're really doing is searching multiple lists... so I think a case could be made that this doesn't apply, I've got a vague idea about how some of the patent stuff works, but there's orders of magnitude more that I don't know compared to what I do. anyways, you've got a right

Re: celluar data network speed comparison WAS: Re: verizon and openmoko

2007-01-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 26 January 2007 02:32:53 Todd W wrote: OpenMoko is definitely another great tool for the toolbox, but just so everyone knows, there are already much more advanced wireless data interfaces available. Comparing EVDO to GSM is like comparing modern trucks to steam locomotives. There's

Re: emulator something like greenphone vmware?

2007-01-25 Thread Denis Kot
No, I don't need hardware emulator. I need interface emulator :). Where I can play with phone's interface and maybe onboard software w/o buying the phone. It's ok if it will be compiled for i386 or whatever. 2007/1/26, Richi Plana [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 21:14 +0100, Rodolphe

Re: WiFi

2007-01-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 26 January 2007 06:35:41 Richi Plana wrote: I guess it's just as well that the first version didn't contain WiFi as the specs for 802.11n seems all but finished (http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9415304733.html). Hopefully Intel and Atheros come out with embeddable chips and release

Re: emulator something like greenphone vmware?

2007-01-25 Thread Rodney Arne Karlsen
On Friday 26 January 2007 08:12, Richi Plana wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:08 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: If I understand the original poster correctly, he's looking for a hardware emulator. Personally, I would like to see an emulator for the Samsung s3c2410 as well. What instruction set