Re: Cellular usage

2007-02-06 Thread Lee Colleton
Yes. On 2/4/07, Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope I am posting this properly. I was thinking about my infrequent airline trips and their dislike of cell phones. Is there any possibility to turn off the transmitter in software? Kyle ___ OpenMoko

Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
Hi, I just wanted to chime in on the discussion about IM support and text messaging in general. For clarity's sake I'll start a new thread with a relevant subject line. First of all I'd like to say that, at least here in Finland integrated IM protocol support would be the killer

Re: Application idea: Tracking usage costs comparing operator pricing

2007-02-06 Thread Selem Delul
great idea. what i want more is application specific gprs data usage. this is what i hate on my current symbian phone. i have to be a premium partner to write that kind of program. On 2/6/07, Jani-Matti Hätinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'd like to propose an application for

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Sergio Bessa
Just a comment abou Jabber usage. As most of you might know there are transports that make it possible to connect to MSN / ICQ through Jabber and that is being used by several companies to leverage IM services compatible with legacy systems. I'm currently working with one myself :) I'm

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:56:37 Sergio Bessa wrote: What if we could have Jabber support in OpenMoko and use some sort of transport/relay to connect to legacy protocols? Don't you think this would work? This way wwe only needed one protocol implementation. Sure. Many of the public

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Mikko J Rauhala
On ti, 2007-02-06 at 09:56 +, Sergio Bessa wrote: As most of you might know there are transports that make it possible to connect to MSN / ICQ [...] What if we could have Jabber support in OpenMoko and use some sort of transport/relay to connect to legacy protocols? Don't you think this

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Sebastian Mancke
Hi Gabriel. Gabriel Ambuehl schrieb: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:56:37 Sergio Bessa wrote: What if we could have Jabber support in OpenMoko and use some sort of transport/relay to connect to legacy protocols? Don't you think this would work? This way wwe only needed one protocol

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:06:08 you wrote: It woud be great to keep a clean, well known messaging protokoll at the base. For reducing the bandwidth usage, I would have two ideas in mind: - gzip the xml communication (like soap Web-Services over HTTP do). - Use the binary

Re: [how to answer] Basic questions

2007-02-06 Thread Santiago Crespo
On lun, 2007-02-05 at 17:35 -1000, Chuck Williams wrote: Hi All, I'm new to the OpenMoko community and trying to get some basic information about the software and phone: Welcome to OpenMoko project! :) 1. Without a qwerty keyboard, how is text entered? Is there an qwerty

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Rodney Arne Karlsen
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:16:12 Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:56:37 Sergio Bessa wrote: What if we could have Jabber support in OpenMoko and use some sort of transport/relay to connect to legacy protocols? Don't you think this would work? This way wwe only

RE: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Dean Collins
Lol, this would lead to commercial server side applications implemented as a pay per month ASP service - last time I discussed this on the list the 'email storm' about only having open source free software lasted a week. I made the decision to sit out most of these conversations until I have a

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Mikko J Rauhala
On ti, 2007-02-06 at 12:24 +, Florent THIERY wrote: The best would be: - using a plain text protocol : irc would be great, but prevents further extension (webcam over ip or voip), so SIP might be better Yes, irc is notoriously inflexible. Thus my wish for Jabber. As for SIP, I don't think

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Florent THIERY
You can do nice things with your own persistently available server, yes, but one shouldn't be necessary to mostly enjoy OpenMoko. Of course, it shouldn't need it, but an associated distro / dedicated app for computers may unleash features. And can become a paid service if you don't want to

Can this be of any interest?

2007-02-06 Thread maraston
http://www.polymervision.com/News-Center/Press-Releases/TelecomItaliaandPolymerVisionannouncetheCE.html http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/scienzaetecnologia/libro-fonino/1.html ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Application idea: Tracking usage costs comparing operator pricing

2007-02-06 Thread Gervais Mulongoy
Why not program your plan into the phone such that you are always aware of what resources you have left. There has been some discussion of this on the Profiles discussion..I can't remember where it is again, but on the wiki it should be there. On 2/6/07, Selem Delul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Fabian Off
Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Mikko J Rauhala: You can do nice things with your own persistently available server, yes, but one shouldn't be necessary to mostly enjoy OpenMoko. You mentioned a web gateway; I assume you mean a web proxy that's tunable to eg. recompress images smaller

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Ian Stirling
Fabian Off wrote: Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Mikko J Rauhala: You can do nice things with your own persistently available server, yes, but one shouldn't be necessary to mostly enjoy OpenMoko. You mentioned a web gateway; I assume you mean a web proxy that's tunable to eg. recompress

[3GSM] Feb 6, 2007: Funambol Shows Open Source Push Email, Contacts and Calendars for Everyone at 3GSM World Congress.

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Michel
Source: http://www.funambol.com/press/Funambol_3GSM07_release.pdf :) --snipp-- Funambol Shows Open Source Push Email, Contacts and Calendars for Everyone at 3GSM World Congress Funambol demos mobile email portal for consumers, open source Java client for mass market devices and OpenMoko platform

Re:T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Ben Burdette writes: snip My question is, has anyone been through this process before, what's the best way to find out how the service is? I don't know anyone that has a t mobile phone (maybe that should tell me something). And the other thing is, how would I get the neo1973 onto the t

RE: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-06 Thread Graham Auld
What country are you in? If it's UK then you shouldn't have much of a problem with signal unless you're in the wilds of Scotland :-) Most if not all of the network providers also provide sim only options for contracts or pay as you go services, not usually heavily advertised but avaliable none

Push Email

2007-02-06 Thread Graham Auld
Looks fab, good work with tinymail! Sadly I think the issue with OpenMoko/Neo - or any other mobile handset for that matter - is that in order for any of these direct delivery methods to work you have to notify the handset. This means either maintaining an open TCP link over GPRS (or Bluetooth or

Re: Idea: Desktop wakeup on user proximity

2007-02-06 Thread kkr
Another way to do it: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Bluetooth_Proximity_Monitor Regards Le mercredi 24 janvier 2007 à 01:42 +, Robert McQueen a écrit : This already does half of what you want: http://matthew.ath.cx/projects/bluemon/ The problem with this kind of thing is that