Re: another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail

2007-07-30 Thread ramsesoriginal
This suggests that altitude might be something to check as well, though as someone else pointed out that's a little late to enable flight mode :) Why do you always think of planes when speaking of altitude? What about Mountain-climbing? Paragliding? Deltaplanes? Private Ultralight-Planes?

Neo Pouch

2007-07-30 Thread Peter Trapp
I found an interesting strip inside of the neoPouch. Last but not least we can fix our stylus there :) OT: My phone received at about 09:30 :) and I'm from Germany ... -homyx -- for Windows problems reboot for Linux problems be root ___ OpenMoko

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Jay Vaughan
On Jul 30, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Rod Whitby wrote: Ah cripes, who freaking *CARES* about the Graffiti trademark .. Hmm ... someone could just as well say: Ah cripes, who freaking *CARES* about the OpenMoko trademark .. Is someone actually developing something which uses the OpenMoko

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Ortwin Regel
Worrying about worrying about the trademark issue is even more irrelevant. Pointing things like this out early is a good thing. Further discussion about the trademark issue isn't necessary, though, it's annoying. Ortwin On 7/30/07, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 30, 2007, at 7:50

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Jay Vaughan
Agreed. So can we try to maintain focus on the immediate tactical and technical advances that we can actually accomplish? ; On Jul 30, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Ortwin Regel wrote: Worrying about worrying about the trademark issue is even more irrelevant. Pointing things like this out early is

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Giles Jones
On 30 Jul 2007, at 11:21, Ortwin Regel wrote: Worrying about worrying about the trademark issue is even more irrelevant. Pointing things like this out early is a good thing. Further discussion about the trademark issue isn't necessary, though, it's annoying. What if they contribute

Re: GTA02 Board only option in October?

2007-07-30 Thread Ian Stirling
Harald Welte wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:07:44PM -0400, Kyle Bassett wrote: Harald, I am curious, what do you estimate the cost (as a percentage or dollar amount) that the GTA02 board kit would run compared to the expected $450 base price? I do prefer your idea about selling the

GTA01 first impressions

2007-07-30 Thread Mikko J Rauhala
I just got my Neo (yay)! First impressions: Flashing is frustratingly slow when you want to get tinkering ;) But really, the phone itself is a lot faster than I expected what with all the complaints; granted, optimizations may have crept in since then, but anyway I didn't feel it especially

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread David \Lefty\ Schlesinger
Jay Vaughan wrote: it just happens that Graffiti is what people know finger painting on your PDA to be .. its common enough to warrant usage as a word referring to the activity of finger-painting symbols for recognition on a devices surface. No, sorry, this is incorrect, and precisely _why_ I

Re: GTA01 first impressions

2007-07-30 Thread Jay Vaughan
On Jul 30, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Mikko J Rauhala wrote: Further tinkering will have to wait until tonight. Thanks to the team; it's been a rocky road (I'm sure I don't even know how rocky exactly), and longer than expected, but a significant milestone has been reached. And it don't seem half

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Jay Vaughan
I just think it's a bit rich to be following this project if you don't care about creative freedom. I'd much sooner create a new input system anyway. i'm rather fond of using xyz position sensors to roll balls around word-chains, myself .. in my opinion there definitely ought to be more

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread David \Lefty\ Schlesinger
Giles Jones wrote: Except that OpenMoko is a completely made up phrase which has no other use in the English language. That's completely irrelevant, I'm afraid. (By the way, there was a Cafe Moko right around the corner from my hotel in London; I've got a picture of the sign someplace...)

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Giles Jones
On 30 Jul 2007, at 15:35, David Lefty Schlesinger wrote: Trademarks exist in specific contexts for particular usages, they're not a global thing. I'm obligated to deal with trademark law as I find it; if you wish it were something different, you'll need to write your Congressional

RE: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread David Schlesinger
So by using fingers instead of a stylus we're not talking about the same use case anyway. That's certainly not clear to me. Are you policing this project for violations? Not at all, that's a silly idea; as I've said, I simply _am_ obligated to point out when a trademark held by my employer is

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Jay Vaughan
On Jul 30, 2007, at 4:35 PM, David Lefty Schlesinger wrote: Trademarks exist in specific contexts for particular usages, they're not a global thing. I'm obligated to deal with trademark law as I find it; if you wish it were something different, you'll need to write your Congressional

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Giles Jones
On 30 Jul 2007, at 16:08, David Schlesinger wrote: Not at all, that's a silly idea; as I've said, I simply _am_ obligated to point out when a trademark held by my employer is being misused, and that's simply a condition of having the trademark. True, but these are just ramblings, the

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Dylan McCall
Bah, forget graffiti! It's too difficult; the computer should be able to help you with it, but it doesn't. It essentially says do this unnecessary work. Using graffiti is like using a help file. (And I have a pretty long rant on those somewhere). If a really clever person sat down and drew lots

Re: another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail (Power usage)

2007-07-30 Thread Visti Andresen
While I do find most of the GPS based ideas intriguing I do have one comment. Power usage! I wonder if you have realised that the GPS consumes large quantities of current. (45 mW according to

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Giles Jones writes: Are you policing this project for violations? Look, he pointed out a potential trademark issue, which will have to be considered if some sort of ungraffiti is to be distributed. There really isn't any reason to keep going on about it.

imei number

2007-07-30 Thread Emre Turkay
Hi folks, Does anybody know how can I see the IMEI number? Thanks, emre ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail (Power usage)

2007-07-30 Thread Giles Jones
On 30 Jul 2007, at 16:45, Visti Andresen wrote: While I do find most of the GPS based ideas intriguing I do have one comment. Power usage! Then you simply have an update timer. Tell the phone to update it's position at a configurable time period, say every 5 minutes.

Re: Finger Graffiti

2007-07-30 Thread Jay Vaughan
Are you policing this project for violations? Look, he pointed out a potential trademark issue, which will have to be considered if some sort of ungraffiti is to be distributed. There really isn't any reason to keep going on about it. right. so how would this ungraffiti work, exactly?

Re: imei number

2007-07-30 Thread Giles Jones
On 30 Jul 2007, at 17:05, Emre Turkay wrote: Hi folks, Does anybody know how can I see the IMEI number? Thanks, emre Tried *#06# ? ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: imei number

2007-07-30 Thread Scott Rushforth
At least on my phone, this was printed out underneath the battery, inside the case :) cheers! -scott Emre Turkay wrote: Hi folks, Does anybody know how can I see the IMEI number? Thanks, emre ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: imei number

2007-07-30 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 7/30/07, Scott Rushforth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least on my phone, this was printed out underneath the battery, inside the case :) Just in case! I believe you can also use AT+CGSN. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com ___

Re: OpenMoko future.

2007-07-30 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 07/29/2007 Jim McDonald wrote: [...] We want to build _the_ best open mobile device in the world. 100% open. Only when we reach this point will our strengths be appreciated by the mainstream user. I understand the thinking here, but the mainstream user will neither

Re: OpenMoko future.

2007-07-30 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 07/30/2007 Mark Arvidson wrote: [snip] Freeing the phone to be a platform, not just a crude, limited tool is where this project needs to go. It may seem like a slow couple of years before this really infects our entire culture, but I think it's inevitable now. Exactly! -Sean

Re: another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail (Power usage)

2007-07-30 Thread Visti Andresen
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:59:51 +0100 Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Visti Andresen wrote: While I do find most of the GPS based ideas intriguing I do have one comment. Power usage! I wonder if you have realised that the GPS consumes large quantities of

Re: another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail (Power usage)

2007-07-30 Thread Ian Stirling
Visti Andresen wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:59:51 +0100 Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Visti Andresen wrote: While I do find most of the GPS based ideas intriguing I do have one comment. Power usage! I wonder if you have realised that the GPS consumes large quantities

Re: another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail (Power usage)

2007-07-30 Thread Giles Jones
On 30 Jul 2007, at 17:54, Visti Andresen wrote: But does a GPS not require large amounts of time to get a new fix? Hot startup 12s, average Warm startup 38s, average Cold startup 60s, average (random data from http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/11694061/ Bluetooth_GPS_Receiver.html) Depends

Re: imei number

2007-07-30 Thread Emre Turkay
Thanks, I looked all over /dev/ ;) emre On 7/30/07, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 7/30/07, Scott Rushforth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least on my phone, this was printed out underneath the battery, inside the case :) Just in case! I believe you can also use AT+CGSN.

Re: 3G plans

2007-07-30 Thread Greg Oliver
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 15:14 -0500, Adam Krikstone wrote: I see no mention of GTA03 (2.5G/EDGE?), GTX01/02 (3G?) on the official wiki anymore. http://londerings.novalis.org/wlog/index.php?title=Neo1973_counterredirect=no#Other_future_devices Another: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/HXD8 I

UPS tracking number wrong, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] responds permission denied

2007-07-30 Thread Myk Melez
I tried to reply to my Order shipped message, since the UPS tracking number listed in the message is not recognized by UPS's online package tracking app (it says the number is not a valid tracking number), but [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded Permission denied (see below). How can I get a correct

Re: [UI/Graphics] Ever heard of graff ?

2007-07-30 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On 7/27/07, Florent THIERY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never heard about it, but it looks interesting (following the physics-inspired/verlet integration ramble some months ago on this very list) http://www.mdk.org.pl/articles/2007/04/23/chapter-1-in-which-we-meet-graff Be sure to check out

Re: UPS tracking number wrong, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] responds permission denied

2007-07-30 Thread Lon Lentz
The number they gave you was probably issued to them by their UPS shipping program or from their shipping book. If it hasn't been picked up yet and processed by UPS' shipping system, it won't be recognized. Check back at the end of the day and you should be good to go. On 7/30/07, Myk Melez

Re: What is the FCC ID of the neo1973?

2007-07-30 Thread Mikko Rauhala
ma, 2007-07-30 kello 15:51 -0500, Adam Krikstone kirjoitti: I see no mention of it anywhere on the wiki or lists. Does anyone know the FCC ID? The unit I received today has a sticker saying FCC ID: EUNGTA01BV4 -- Mikko Rauhala - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - URL:http://www.iki.fi/mjr/

Re: What is the FCC ID of the neo1973?

2007-07-30 Thread Scott Rushforth
mine has it printed under the battery: fcc id: EUNGTA01BV4 cheers -scott Adam Krikstone wrote: I see no mention of it anywhere on the wiki or lists. Does anyone know the FCC ID? -adam ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: UPS tracking number wrong, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] responds permission denied

2007-07-30 Thread Myk Melez
Lon Lentz wrote: The number they gave you was probably issued to them by their UPS shipping program or from their shipping book. If it hasn't been picked up yet and processed by UPS' shipping system, it won't be recognized. Check back at the end of the day and you should be good to go.

Re: [UI/Graphics] Ever heard of graff ?

2007-07-30 Thread Jay Vaughan
Cairo, as suggested, will not be an option in near future, since it does 32bpp graphics and the conversion will kill our hardware. fwiw, its quite feasible to do nice assembly-based BPP conversion on ARM and involves a decidedly negligible hit on performance .. don't count cairo out of

Re: Total Control over the phone

2007-07-30 Thread kkr
On the wiki, I've seen this information (assumption): http://londerings.novalis.org/wlog/index.php?title=Neo1973_counterredirect=no#P2_.28GTA02.29 snip GTA02 Hardware: Probably: New power management (Upgrade or change: Should now allow to remove power completely from GSM part) snip Does

US: T-Mobile plans

2007-07-30 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
This is addressed to people who have successfully navigated t-mobile's thicket: wouldn't it be nice if their web page gave good, complete, technical information? Anyway, my reading of their page is that to get web access on the phone I need to add their T-MobileWeb service, but I don't need

Re: US: T-Mobile plans

2007-07-30 Thread Adam Krikstone
More info than you probably want: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=518666 http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.php/T-Mobile http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: This is addressed to people who have successfully navigated t-mobile's thicket:

Re: GTA02 Board only option in October?

2007-07-30 Thread Steve
Ian Stirling wrote: I would like to see a bare GTA01 board being available - even after GTA02 becomes available. There was some previous mention of available parts. I'd like to be able to buy the plastic case. That way I would have the option of possibly doing a little hardware hacking along

Re: US: T-Mobile plans

2007-07-30 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Dan Trevino writes: I have their $5.99 internet plan working with my unsupported Treo 680. After reading the posts to howardforums (thanks Adam!), I have to ask: when you say it's working, does that mean you can go to an arbitrary URL and see what's there?

Where's the Micro-SD?

2007-07-30 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Not physically -- I had no problem plugging it into the phone. But where does it appear to the software? where is it in /dev? Is it automatically mounted at boot time? What's the mountpoint? Foolish question, I know... ___ OpenMoko community

Re: Where's the Micro-SD?

2007-07-30 Thread Brad Midgley
it mounts on /media/card if it has a supported filesystem (fat/ext2) ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: US: T-Mobile plans

2007-07-30 Thread Nkoli
On 7/30/07, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Trevino writes: I have their $5.99 internet plan working with my unsupported Treo 680. After reading the posts to howardforums (thanks Adam!), I have to ask: when you say it's working, does that mean you can go to an arbitrary URL and

Re: What is the FCC ID of the neo1973?

2007-07-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff Rush wrote: Adam Krikstone wrote: I see no mention of it anywhere on the wiki or lists. Does anyone know the FCC ID? I'm curious of what use that information is -- does the registration point to information at the FCC that says something about the functioning of the phone? Are you

Re: What is the FCC ID of the neo1973?

2007-07-30 Thread Adam Krikstone
Just curious. It will give info like SAR and other testing information like the upcoming Nokia E90 here: http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/fcc_query.php?gc=PYApc=RA-6 I was more curious about the draft consumer documentation/manual that they submitted or lack their of. When it does get

Re: US: T-Mobile plans

2007-07-30 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Nkoli writes: The only difference between T-Mobile Web and T-Mobile Internet on the phone is that T-Mobile Internet allows VPN while T-Mobile Web doesn't. You can access any arbitrary html or wap site on your phone with both plans. I've been using the cheaper plan since their t-zones unlimited