Re: 'My Account' - a way to store information about the phones owner, so they can be reunited if it's lost.

2007-03-05 Thread Bartłomiej Zdanowski DRP AC2
Ian Stirling napisał(a): Paul Wouters wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Ian Stirling wrote: Reflashing never gets you back a different account number, it keys off the IMEI, which is not flashable. (well, perhaps it is, but it's not flashable from the linux side, and AIUI, nobody else knows how at

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 05 March 2007 03:21:15 Florent THIERY wrote: Hey, great idea ! I'd be happy to use such a system. Yeah, it looks neat. I think I'd downscale the number of special chars though. I very much doubt you could actually read the characters on the Neo screen right now. But there's a

Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-05 Thread Bartłomiej Zdanowski DRP AC2
Tim Newsom napisał(a): On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 6:09, Evgeny wrote: It still Linux based phone — there is absolutely no real-life viruses for Linux at this time, trojans are possible treat, but user have to install them by himself. That's a pretty strong statement.. Are you absolutely sure there

Re: OpenMoko featured in Mac|Life

2007-03-05 Thread Marcel de Jong
Ryan Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey Everyone-- OpenMoko's Neo1973 was featured in Mac | Life's March Issue in an article titled A Tale of Three Smartphones ...we temporarily forgot that two other touchscreen smartphones had previously been announced: LG's Prada phone and the

Re: Bluetooth Headset - Voice Commands

2007-03-05 Thread Nils Faerber
Sorry for beeing late here ;) Mike Hodson schrieb: On 2/28/07, Jonathon Suggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] By being connected to the USB bus, this works exactly like every current Linux computer with bluetooth: as of now, the BlueZ stack can do SCO / headset, and they are working daily on

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Lars Hallberg
Gabriel Ambuehl skrev: On Monday 05 March 2007 03:21:15 Florent THIERY wrote: Yeah, it looks neat. I think I'd downscale the number of special chars though. I very much doubt you could actually read the characters on the Neo screen right now. Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You

Re: Idea: Mass Text Messaging

2007-03-05 Thread Jan Van Vlaenderen
One nice to have feature would be, if we could tell the phone to send an sms on a specied date/time. Jan On 3/5/07, Ryan Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone write this as an extension to the openmoko software? I meant, would anyone write this as an extension to the openmoko software?

Sorry if this arrives

2007-03-05 Thread Miquel Herrera
It was just a test because my emails were not reaching the list Miquel ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Krzysztof Kajkowski
I find this idea interesting but I thought of some modification - what about using there full QWERTY keyboard? There could be something like miniature keyboard displayed at the buttom but in QWERTY layout. You could use thumbs to press keys (more accuartely: areas where keys are - your thumb

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 05 March 2007 11:34:47 Lars Hallberg wrote: Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You might need to look close... But the neo case have a hole for the nose for that special Clear yes, but also about 3 times smaller than on your desktop screen... purpose :-) Hopefully, You

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Ian Stirling
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 11:34:47 Lars Hallberg wrote: Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You might need to look close... But the neo case have a hole for the nose for that special Clear yes, but also about 3 times smaller than on your desktop screen...

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Ian Stirling
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 11:34:47 Lars Hallberg wrote: Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You might need to look close... But the neo case have a hole for the nose for that special Clear yes, but also about 3 times smaller than on your desktop screen...

Re: Idea: Mass Text Messaging

2007-03-05 Thread Steven **
My crappy Verizon locked-down phone already allows multiple to addresses. It also allows assigning contacts to pre-assigned groups. Sounds like you'd like the address book to allow arbitrary grouping and the ability to address a message to a group. Seems pretty simple. I'd suspect it could be

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: Clear yes, but also about 3 times smaller than on your desktop screen... First, I really like this idea for input and think it has potential to being very intuitive while allowing a decent input rate. That said, the screen size (and corresponding button size) is an

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Ian Stirling wrote: Ideally - if designing it from a completely clean sheet, you want it so that 'typos' result in very different letters. a e 0 i o would be a spectacularly bad pick, for example, whereas a d 0 q f might be good. This is so autocorrection software can function

Re: Idea: Mass Text Messaging

2007-03-05 Thread Cathal O'Brien
I can send a single text message to a group of people by just selecting the people in my phone book when i go to send a text. I know my old phone wasn;t able to do this but my new Motorola phone can, so I expect any recent motorola phone can do this already. -- Cathal O'Brien

GPS for 911 calls

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Welter
What is the protocol for sending the GPS coordinates to the 911 dispatcher? -- Michael Welter Telecom Matters Corp. Denver, Colorado US +1.303.414.4980 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.TelecomMatters.net ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: GPS for 911 calls

2007-03-05 Thread Ian Stirling
Michael Welter wrote: What is the protocol for sending the GPS coordinates to the 911 dispatcher? I don't think there is one protocol. Unfortunately, I suspect a 'say GPS coordinates' button on the 911 screen may be the most compatible way. ___

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Florent THIERY
About the graphics part, there's something i always found frustrating with existing virtual keyboards (say, the motorola EZX one): they remain hidden most of the time, but when you start typing in a text area, the keyboard appears, taking 70% of the screen. What could be done here (but it

Re: GPS for 911 calls

2007-03-05 Thread Attila Csipa
On Monday 05 March 2007 16:17, Ian Stirling wrote: Unfortunately, I suspect a 'say GPS coordinates' button on the 911 screen may be the most compatible way. Not sure if coordinates are going to help you much, a 'closest' real-life address might be more helpful, but it's a question just how

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 05 March 2007 16:43:38 Florent THIERY wrote: For instance, type on a text input area; background (app) stays the same, the keyboard shows up, 80% transparent, but using optimized coloring (for instance, taking the exact negative of the background on every point), so that it's still

Fw: Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-05 Thread Tim Newsom
Sorry, got caught in the reply to issue. -Original Message- From: Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 7:02:58 -0800 On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 0:05, Evgeny wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:35

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Lars Hallberg
Gabriel Ambuehl skrev: On Monday 05 March 2007 11:34:47 Lars Hallberg wrote: Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You might need to look close... But the neo case have a hole for the nose for that special Clear yes, but also about 3 times smaller than on your desktop screen... You

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread michael
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Ian Stirling wrote: Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 11:34:47 Lars Hallberg wrote: Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You might need to look close... But the neo case have a hole for the nose for that special Clear yes, but also about 3

Re: GPS for 911 calls

2007-03-05 Thread Martin Lefkowitz
There is an IETF group (BOF?) looking into this. 802.11k and v are also trying to provide some solutions, but they are uncoordinated as far as I know. IMHO it needs to be an IETF solution because of the converged devices that are cropping up. I'm not sure anyone has lifted their heads out

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread adrian cockcroft
This technology is eventually going to be available on Linux according to the author, there was a demo at ETel. http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/shapewriter.htm Adrian On 3/5/07, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about making use of AI techniques and having

Re: Neologics

2007-03-05 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 10:47, Pranav Desai wrote: On 3/4/07, Stefan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it is only needed if you break your bootloader. Everything besides this is recoverable with the installed bootloader. Will it be possible to add a wiki page specifying how not to

Re: Near field communication NFC

2007-03-05 Thread Bruce Deschamps
Hello, Great to hear that NFC technology is also a growing trend amoung the open source world!!! I am studying until the end of october at the university of Nice Sophia Antipolis in Southern East of France (diploma called Master MBDS). A master's degree in computer sciences specialized in

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Paul M
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 13:50 +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 11:34:47 Lars Hallberg wrote: Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You might need to look close... But the neo case have a hole for the nose for that special Clear yes, but also about 3 times smaller

Re: GPS for 911 calls

2007-03-05 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Welter wrote: What is the protocol for sending the GPS coordinates to the 911 dispatcher? I don't think there is one protocol. Unfortunately, I suspect a 'say GPS coordinates' button on the 911 screen may be the most compatible way. Wireless

Re: Itch3: Anti-lost/theft protection

2007-03-05 Thread t3st3r
Marcel de Jong wrote: On 3/4/07, t3st3r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip FYI: just to let you know, an anti-thief\anti-lost system for phones already exists.Here is the story.Maybe someone already heard that proprietary Siemens mobile phones (x55 series based on 80C166 CPU and x65 and x75 series

Re: GPS for 911 calls

2007-03-05 Thread Martin Lefkowitz
Yes, but for VoIP I believe it is still in flux. There is an especially nasty issue with encryption and 802.11 with the way the standard is described because it assumes you are already on the network. However with 802.1x based systems you need to be authenticated. As far as I know this has

Re: coverage at linuxdevices.com

2007-03-05 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Marcin Juszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070305 07:35]: Dnia niedziela, 4 marca 2007, Joe Pfeiffer napisał: Andreas Kostyrka writes: Just wondering, but did I get that right, the Hackers version that will be available this month will only be a developers board, without a phone casing =

Re: coverage at linuxdevices.com

2007-03-05 Thread wim delvaux
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 03:02:38 Andreas Kostyrka wrote: * Marcin Juszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070305 07:35]: Dnia niedziela, 4 marca 2007, Joe Pfeiffer napisał: Andreas Kostyrka writes: Just wondering, but did I get that right, the Hackers version that will be available this month

Idea: Location based reminders

2007-03-05 Thread Igor Foox
Hi, I just added this to the wiki: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:Location_based_reminders It's a bit related to context based todo list (http:// wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:context_based_to-do_list) but a different type of event. I came up with the idea today when I was working

Re: OpenMoko Phase 0 has started

2007-03-05 Thread mathew davis
Congrats! I am jealous that I don't have one yet. Good job every one on the dev teams. I can't image it was easy. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: OpenMoko Phase 0 has started

2007-03-05 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Igor Foox writes: Just wanted to send a big Congratulations to the core OpenMoko team for this first shipment of phones. You guys are doing a great job and even with the delays the community is (or at least I am) 100% behind you! Absolutely! And I think I'm speaking for far too many people

OpenMoko Phase 0 has started

2007-03-05 Thread Harald Welte
Hi! The rumours have already spread, as several bloggers have already reported: Yesterday [subject to time zone], Monday the 5th of March 2007, OpenMoko was finally able to start the Phase 0 of the OpenMoko Neo1973 developer programme: The Neo1973 Phase 0 phones have been shipped! This means