Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-28 Thread Ian Stirling
On 10/28/2013 10:03 PM, Michael Spacefalcon wrote: * Most of the Openmoko community sees my FreeCalypso work as being illegal, because they have voluntarily chosen to live and/or accept citizenship in repressive countries which deem it to be so. I suspect that the power-keepers of the Om Wiki

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Ian Stirling
On 10/16/2013 10:13 AM, Balint Szente wrote: What is not clear for me is that can a software be FSF/OSI free but illegal to use? In principle, one can take osmocombb through your local approvals process, and get it approved for use in your country. It may also be legal to use in certain

Re: Kickstarter: Open Source Graphics Processor (GPU)

2013-10-12 Thread Ian Stirling
On 10/12/2013 05:43 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: The main fear I have is that there is not enough funding because nobody can really use it in daily work without investing another lots of money (to integrate the FPGA with something). BR, Nikolaus Speaking in generalities - FPGAs use

Re: The open hardware phone project that's had the most interest

2013-10-05 Thread Ian Stirling
On 10/05/2013 04:04 PM, Pascal Gosselin wrote: While I understand the needs/wants of open hardware, the average smartphone user really couldn't care less. That's the core of the problem, lack of a large user base. HOWEVER, what a *lot* people seem to be interested in, is an open

Re: Graphics Performance

2009-04-03 Thread Ian Stirling
Iain B. FIndleton wrote: It appears to me that the implementation on the FR is not capable of moving an updated frame buffer in memory to the chip's video buffer, presuming they are different, without draping. Since the controller appears to be able to rescan its own video buffer without

Spares - broken case or LCD, ...

2008-08-11 Thread Ian Stirling
Is there any way to purchase cases or LCDs in the event of breakage? Also, I would like a few cases, to play with adding wifi to GTA01, for which I need to modify the case a bit, and I may break it. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Accelerometer(s), Camera, and Memory

2008-07-21 Thread Ian Stirling
Dee Ayy wrote: I just heard of OpenMoko and Neo FreeRunner today. Awesome! I noticed the Hardware Highlights lists 3axis Motion Sensors (2) and would hope that the developers included 2 accelerometers for the purpose of sampling the rotation as well as translation. The closedPhone and

Re: OpenMoko Remote Controller (SoC)

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Stirling
David Murrell wrote: Wait a minute... /me backs up the metaphorical truck... Just _how_ accurate are these accelerometers? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Technical:Accelerometer_Fundamentals gives some ideas. The basis of this is the accelerometer used in the wii - as that is about the

Re: Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics)

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Stirling
ramsesoriginal wrote: I think this would be great.. Ideally it would not decode it completely, but simply encode the video with some simpler compression... Another question: if we skip sound, would the decoding be faster? By how much? As a datapoint, most VCD class mpegs/avis I had around

Re: Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics)

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if you could use one of those 'coming very soon' Laser projection device(s) connected to USB ? USB1.1 only (on the Freerunner) And they are not cheap. (presumably) ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics)

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Stirling
Jens Fursund wrote: Mikko Rauhala wrote: Really peeps, face it, seems that the sane way to do non-crappy video on the Freerunner is to get driver support for that Glamo mpeg-4 decoding (remember, the hardware is capable). Hopefully everyone's grasping at straws makes OM bump up the

Re: Upgrading 1973 to Freerunner

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In view of 'many' 1973's becoming obsolete and probably 'ridden' with unfixable problems, would it be 'thinkable' to replace the internals of the device with a FreeRunner Motherboard ? I heard that the most costly part of a device it the screen, and that the screen

Re: Engineering Driven vs. Community Driven (was Re: Ugliness)

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Stirling
hank williams wrote: I have to say my unvoiced thoughts were the same as Ryan's. I was not at all clear why a call for the community to help figure marketing stuff out would be met by a request to take the discussion off list as though it was somehow inappropriate for public discussion. It

Re: Newbee ..- encrypted calls/SMS

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Stirling
Crane, Matthew wrote: Yes, I understand that, that is why I'm thinking of this approach. My idea was to use analog voice transforms and their inverse with properties that would preserve most of the codec performance. But it would be awfully difficult to sync up the inverse on the other end

Re: Newbee ..- encrypted calls/SMS

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Stirling
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: There are no simple voice transforms at all that will get through the codec, and actually encrypt. Voice changing is possible, but encryption is not. You _cannot_ - for example - exepect frequency inversion - to get through the codec chain. What about

Re: Newbee wants to kick start - second try

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Stirling
ramsesoriginal wrote: If it's like that, then a simple amplitude-modulation over a pre-recorded, fixed, carrier of the encrypted data should be no problem, since amplitudes are sent... It's not. It sends what is in essence a model of what state the human throat is in. This is what the codec is

Re: Newbee wants to kick start - encrypted calls

2008-04-24 Thread Ian Stirling
Crane, Matthew wrote: Not sure if there's a specific project, I'm hoping to do some sort of analog encryption, with audio effects and inverse effects, such that it does not need to be digitally decoded, where the excellent pattern recognition engine in the brain does most of the work. You

Re: Steve on V5 versus v6

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Stirling
Tilman Baumann wrote: Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: Getting to the debug port, at least as described in the wiki, needs both the torx screwdriver and the guitar pick. Ah, so this is what the pick is for. Thx. Remove the back Undo the torx Starting at the antenna end, run fingernail along the

Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Stirling
James Olney wrote: looks nice, obviously the freerunner with it's improved hardware and grfx chip will really start to shine. Unfortunately, not quite obviously. For example, the memory bus bandwidth to the GPU is some 7M/s, compared to 60+M/s for the GTA01, and the 3D hardware will not have

Re: Listening to music/podcasts

2008-04-14 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The headset button does mute the mic. It's main function however is to trigger a hardware interrupt to the CPU, which can be used to start the actions you need to take a pending call. This IRQ function is not depending on on the mute, but mute is just a side

Re: modulated data over GSM voice (was Re: Data over normal GSM call)

2008-04-14 Thread Ian Stirling
Harald Welte wrote: Just to give you a summary judgement: Running any kind of voice-encoded data over a regular voice channel of a GSM phone is _extremely_ unlikely to work. There are a number of different codecs in use. Which codec is determined by the network. There is echo cancellation at

Re: warranty

2008-04-12 Thread Ian Stirling
Ajit Natarajan wrote: Hi Steve, If a group joins together to purchase the 10-pack, how will the warranty work? I presume that each unit is individually warranted. I'm sure that warranty service will require a purchase receipt or some other proof of purchase. What receipt would we use? If

Re: Openmoko strives for openness

2008-04-11 Thread Ian Stirling
Sorry for the delay in commenting, not been keeping up with the MLs. Michael Shiloh wrote: snip - Merge the debug board function on to the phone, perhaps with internal micro USB used for debricking and hacking. No write-once memory. - Discard U-Boot, minimal bootloader direct to kernel

Re: Data over normal GSM call

2008-04-11 Thread Ian Stirling
Diego Fdez. DurĂ¡n wrote: snip Can't you initiate a voice call between to FreeRunners and then use the mic and mixer devs to modulate the data as sound? Broadly yes. The problem is: A human making mobile - mobile call looks something like this. 1 microphone 2 analog-digital converter 3 GSM

Re: Unofficial poll: / 3G Network Sheepshearing

2008-04-11 Thread Ian Stirling
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: Here we pay about 4 USD per MB after we used up the 20MB we get each month (that we payed 60 monthly USD for). We can get a unlimited (only limited by the speed of 380kb/s) for 100 USD/month. To compare, 100Mb/s sync fiber (unlimitedd, and with IP phone,

Re: Near-field comms (was Re: need someone to develop this....)

2007-11-30 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering... I did already suggest NFC in a post some days ago (Hardware addition ideas for (=) GTA03 on Sun Nov 25 19:36:23 CET 2007), but got absolutely no reaction (I suggested multi-SIM capability too), and now I am wondering what was so bad about *my*

Re: Question about the End User release

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Stirling
Kamisamanou Burgess wrote: Will I be able to develop apps on the end user release? If you've got the appropriate skills, sure. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: HW difference between 2nd generation Neo1973 and mass market release

2007-09-28 Thread Ian Stirling
Gianni Costanzi wrote: Hi people, I would like to know if there will be any HW differences between the 2nd generation Neo1973 that will be released in October (hopefully) and what is called mass-marked version... will it be only a SW difference (i.e. just a matter of upgrading the SW on the

Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-24 Thread Ian Stirling
andy wrote: Just wondering if there is a reason for the [-SPAM-] in the subject line? Because for some reason my ISP tagged it as spam. And I forgot to edit it. Oops. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Help Request for our Webshop

2007-09-22 Thread Ian Stirling
Ted Lemon wrote: On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Joshua Layne wrote: a brief googling * turned up 'substruct' - open source, based on ruby on rails - meets a subset of your requirements, but may be extensible enough that you don't have to reinvent the entire wheel, only the shiny new

Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread Ian Stirling
ian douglas wrote: Tilman Baumann wrote: The biggest challenge would be a mapping from gps coordinates to regions/postcodes or such. If you have this information, you could do all sorts of crazy stuff. But i doubt these data would be very easy to get. I've seen it at another contract I

Re: OM Camera - a new angle

2007-09-19 Thread Ian Stirling
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Tuesday 18 September 2007 20:12:04 Ian Stirling wrote: I'd want several megapixels, ability to take at least several second pictures, for use around dusk. Optical zoom would be a big plus. LCD size not hugely important. Wifi and bluetooth would be a big plus. USB-host

Re: gpsd and AGPS

2007-09-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Tilman Baumann wrote: Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: Hello, On 9/3/07, Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-GPS http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Server:A-GPS I just keep wondering how hard it would be for us opensource prople to set up a network of assistance

Re: OM Camera - a new angle

2007-09-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Tuesday 18 September 2007 03:27:24 Mikko Rauhala wrote: Now, for the relevant part. I want an open digital camera. So, hey, OpenMoko guys (or somebody else in the consumer device business and into openness), when you're well on your way to having revolutionized the

Re: opensource aerial photography project (was Re: OM Camera - a newangle)

2007-09-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Steven Le Roux wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:33:56 +1200, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/09/2007, OJW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:12, Ian Stirling wrote: It must have wi-max, and be able to fly up to several kilometers, to take pictures for use

Re: Neo Base/Advanced

2007-09-11 Thread Ian Stirling
pHilipp Zabel wrote: On 9/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: System developers ask for project

2007-09-11 Thread Ian Stirling
Bartlomiej Zdanowski wrote: Hello. I have an idea about program that reads GPS data and draws local path/map while you walk. It could be very useful while walking in unknown terrain, city or big building complex. When you would like return to starting point it could show a azimuth with an

Re: Apple is going to beat all competitors

2007-09-09 Thread Ian Stirling
Steve wrote: ian douglas wrote: Andreas Utterberg wrote: Better to get it out now with more bugs, then later with less bugs. I disagree: having *any* noticeable bugs in a release product will bring a lot of criticism. Having more bugs just to get a release out the door will generate a lot

Re: speeding up the flow of information

2007-09-09 Thread Ian Stirling
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On 9/9/07 clare wrote: Hi Sean, and Michael and Joachim; Sorry for late reply, Mailout was broken. Pity this seems to have been submerged in mails about Apple. However I hope that leads to much more emphasis on the documentation snip I couldn't agree with you more.

Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Florent THIERY wrote: It doesn't. It does one of the simpler MPEG-4 profiles, don't recall the details. (One of the S-Media models does H.264, but no VGA.) Can't really feel much pain for that, personally. Personally i do a bit, since online video is moving towards ubiquitous h264 (in Flash

Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Ted Lemon wrote: On Sep 8, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Mikko Rauhala wrote: Software playing will probably take a bit more power, sure, but that aside, the Neo's youtube capabilities already partially exceed (*sigh* at the obligatory comparison) the iPhone's. A lot more power, not a little. Flash

Re: Apple is going to beat all competitors

2007-09-07 Thread Ian Stirling
Shawn Rutledge wrote: On 9/7/07, Raphael Jacquot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it appear those things are so expensive that I couldn't find any price for it. (searching for secure cell phone on google) also, it appears that none of those things can talk to one another, each doing it's little thing.

Re: USB host

2007-09-06 Thread Ian Stirling
ruk.ansari wrote: Hi, Apologize for bringing this up again but its still not clear to me: Does this mean that without the kernel patch, we cannot use a Wi-Fi USB card connected to the Neo via a battery powered USB Hub? Yes, there is no way to switch it to host mode

Re: A guestion

2007-09-06 Thread Ian Stirling
Andreas Utterberg wrote: Hello Community of Openmoko Does anybody know if the device in october is the same device up for sale on openmoko.com http://openmoko.com today? No. And october is unlikely. Though we have not been given a date at which the hardware may be purchasable. (even a 'later

Re: A guestion

2007-09-06 Thread Ian Stirling
Giles Jones wrote: Andreas Utterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hello Community of OpenmokoDoes anybody know if the device in october is the same device up for sale onopenmoko.com today? And will that device have the same developer support as the 1973? So one can flash it and write apps to

Re: gpsd and AGPS

2007-09-04 Thread Ian Stirling
Ken Yale wrote: Hello, Correct. The Broadcom WWRN will predict the SV track and create ephemeris in advance of broadcast by the SVs. long-term-orbit files, (who knows, GL may go down under lawsuits, and the servers fall over, be eaten by giant mice, ...) to providing only a snapshot of

Re: GTA02 GPS (was Re: gpsd and AGPS)

2007-09-04 Thread Ian Stirling
Mikko Rauhala wrote: ti, 2007-09-04 kello 23:27 +0800, Harald Welte kirjoitti: Just to clarify this: We have both GTA02 prototypes with GL/Broadcom and with a a competing firmware-based AGPS solution. Thanks for the clarification, and apologies for spreading the premature word out on the

Re: GTA01 now or GTA02 later

2007-09-04 Thread Ian Stirling
Josef Wolf wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:51:37PM +0200, Federico Lorenzi wrote: [ ... ] 4) Which would YOU choose, a GTA01 now, or a GTA02 in 5 months? AFACS, you have no choice: GTA01's are sold out. You simply _have_ to wait... There have been conflicting announcements.

Re: gpsd and AGPS

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Stirling
Luca Cabriolu wrote: Hi all, I am trying to understand how AGPS can work with gpsd daemon. In my undestanding, when I have an UMTS/GSM module and a GPS module supporting AGPS, I can retrieve Assistance Data for AGPS from UMTS/GSM. I believe this can be done through an AGPS control software

Re: gpsd and AGPS

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Stirling
Luca Cabriolu wrote: Hi Ian, thanks for your answer. I'd like to know how AGPS is currently supported on the NEO 1973. Can you help me to understand how it works from a software and a hardware point of view? Fortunately, the answer is very simple. Unfortunately, that answer is It's not.

Re: gpsd and AGPS

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Stirling
Ken Yale wrote: Hello, snip my largely incorrect comments thanks for the response! AGPS Status: snip Beyond that, the only AGPS capability in the GTA01 is LTO. This is long-term orbit data files downloaded from the network. The delivery of the files can be done via wget or the lto_get

Re: Convince me NOT to cancel my order.

2007-09-02 Thread Ian Stirling
Don Park wrote: On 8/31/07, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My point is starting this topic was to bring attention to the fact that probably 500 to 1000 potential developers were likely to get saddled with GTA01 phones right before the GTA02s were released and that

Re: SMedia 3362

2007-09-01 Thread Ian Stirling
Shawn Rutledge wrote: Is there any technical info available about this chip? Is there an X driver for it, or one in progress? There is as I understand it at the moment only a dumb driver for it, using it as a framebuffer. Unfortunately, documents are only available under NDA. This means

Re: SMedia 3362

2007-09-01 Thread Ian Stirling
Shawn Rutledge wrote: On 9/1/07, Raphael Jacquot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Rutledge wrote: Is there any technical info available about this chip? Is there an X driver for it, or one in progress? depending on the timeframe, perhaps FIC could contact or help the opengraphics people

Re: SMedia 3362

2007-09-01 Thread Ian Stirling
Shawn Rutledge wrote: On 9/1/07, Marcin Juszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/1/07, Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FPGAs of equivalent size are _NOT_ cheap, or low power. I'd guess the SMedia chip is $20 or so. Now, go and look for a low power FPGA with the thick end

Re: Myth Busting FTW

2007-08-31 Thread Ian Stirling
Jeremy G wrote: Excellent, very well written rebuttal! Please let us know if you get any sort of response. :-) Probably worth a cc to the forum on the site. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Power on device after being powered down

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Stirling
Denis Parchenko wrote: I think that this feature must work in close conjunction with 'auto power on' feature mentioned earlier. It will be transparent for user, provide him quiet night and save battery power... In principle, all this stuff can be done. It's a simple matter of programming :)

Re: Power on device after being powered down

2007-08-29 Thread Ian Stirling
Nicolas Bougues wrote: On Monday 27 August 2007 15:15:11 Krzysztof Kajkowski wrote: I wonder that this could be serioul hickup after going public... I can already see all those frustrated users who left their phones for night and in the morning they cannot make important phone call. And they

Re: Power on device after being powered down

2007-08-29 Thread Ian Stirling
Shawn Rutledge wrote: On 8/29/07, Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can do 'switch off on low battery', and be 'off' for several weeks-months, while being able to respond rapidly to charger being plugged in, and charge at high rate - but this again is unimplemented. How about turning

Re: Earliest possible release date for GTA02 - is it past October?

2007-08-26 Thread Ian Stirling
Steven ** wrote: On 8/25/07, *Ian Stirling* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice to have some information on this. Is it still plausible that if everything falls right, GTA02 can be produced in volume, in time for purchased units to be supplied

Re: Clarify openmoko != Neo1973

2007-08-25 Thread Ian Stirling
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2007 00:52:48 Dylan McCall wrote: Openmoko.org's front page could show more than one smartphone running the system, or screenshots of it without any hardware visible. That may magically get the point across... Then you will have people buying a

Re: WiFi vs. speaker

2007-08-25 Thread Ian Stirling
Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. wrote: Hi. Giles, your criticism is constructive and good so it leads to better device development. But there are some points that I don't agree. Giles Jones pisze: Port layout seemingly done at random, poor layout. USB/power connector better at bottom of

Earliest possible release date for GTA02 - is it past October?

2007-08-25 Thread Ian Stirling
It would be nice to have some information on this. Is it still plausible that if everything falls right, GTA02 can be produced in volume, in time for purchased units to be supplied in volume to developers in October? Or is this now looking unlikely. (We all of course understand that

Re: Convince me NOT to cancel my order.

2007-08-25 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why am I not being given the choice to RIGHT NOW to be placed at the FRONT of the GTA02 sales queue? Why dont I have a billion dollars? I really want it and I could really use it... I'm sure that if you show up with a billion dollars, you will be at the front of

Re: Colour Discussions...

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Stirling
mcb, inc. wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Franco Austin wrote: Therefore these colours mentioned above feel all machinist and not a bit of warmth in them I think we've hit a turning point now drawing artists and poets to the project... :-) I'd like to suggest a nice simple theming

Re: USB Booting from a neo in mass storage mode ?

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Stirling
Florent THIERY wrote: Hi, Sorry to bring this up again (this subject was briefly discussed here some monts ago), but i finally decided to wait for the GTA02 device, which prevents me to test the effect of booting a regular computer from the neo's transflash in mass storage mode.

Re: FM Radio

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Stirling
Brad Arnold wrote: On 8/22/07, *Ian Stirling* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NXP has a FM radio in a 2*3mm package that sits on the I2C bus and has 8 or so external components, to give you a complete FM radio. Some $3 IIRC for the device in quantity

Re: FM Radio

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Stirling
Giles Jones wrote: On 22 Aug 2007, at 22:37, D. Vicario wrote: To listen for streaming radio I MUST pay for the download, and the price of data isn't cheap... so, the FM module is the only way, for me, to listen radio. And I see very much use of it. FM is only worth doing if you can

Re: FM Radio

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Stirling
Brad Arnold wrote: On 8/22/07, *Ian Stirling* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NXP has a FM radio in a 2*3mm package that sits on the I2C bus and has 8 or so external components, to give you a complete FM radio. Some $3 IIRC for the device in quantity

Re: FM Radio

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Stirling
Tilman Baumann wrote: Giles Jones wrote: Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : It's valuable if it's very cheap or free. But it's another chip on the already large board. Agree DAB radios are more useful given the number of extra channels. Agree. Definitely more geekish

Re: Neo Sound and USB Questions

2007-08-17 Thread Ian Stirling
Brad Midgley wrote: Hi But most of them just power the 5V line. This is bad with 99% of the bad behaving usb gadgets out there. But Neo is prolite and asks the host if it could draw it's 500mA and if not only takes 100mA out of the bus. this excessive politeness rules out hand-crank

Re: Neo Sound and USB Questions

2007-08-17 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for that wonderful explanation! BTW: Where is my own e-mail in the list? I still did not receive it, but it seems you did?! Somethings strange in that list... Am I right that I would need to solder some more things to make this whole construction work? I

Re: Neo Sound and USB Questions

2007-08-16 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List! I've got a few questions as I'm a little bit confused about some issues. (Also have no Neo to test it myself) First of all, what about the soundcard the Neo provides. Is it a good one or some kind of cheap hardware, designed for phone-call-quality sound

Re: Neo Sound and USB Questions

2007-08-16 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are really good news, you put me in good humor! :) (Thank you too, Ian) Last important thing is the charging over USB while the external hard disk is connected. That's a matter of cabling. Hope someone of the device owners could test this ;) The host mode

Re: USB host

2007-08-13 Thread Ian Stirling
not. (the first two I tested, a belkin tetrahub, and something else) On 8/12/07, Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: assistivetechnology wrote: Did anyone ever try to use the USB host with power supply, or build a HW workaround to supply USB devices with power? I'm contemplating the latter

Re: Neo1973 Phase 1 sales / order process / misconception

2007-08-11 Thread Ian Stirling
Steven ** wrote: snip To summarize: The current delay is not getting phones manufactured. It is dealing with all the orders and status requests they are receiving. No news is good news! I suspect that 99% of people would be completely satisfied with a one-line status message from each

Re: What's the real scope of hardware openness?

2007-08-10 Thread Ian Stirling
Nelson Castillo wrote: On 8/6/07, Giles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 Aug 2007, at 23:58, Ortwin Regel wrote: Run an open Wifi node. It's becoming less and less of a good idea to do that these days. You are responsible for any activity on your connection, so if someone commits a

Re: Neo 1973 is sold out...

2007-08-10 Thread Ian Stirling
Giles Jones wrote: Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I feel it is best for FIC/OpenMoko to have some kind of official customer-support, where customers can just send their order queries, to which official FIC/OpenMoko members and interested community members can join. These interested

Re: Video playback - reasonable sized works!

2007-08-06 Thread Ian Stirling
Giles Jones wrote: Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Using a copy of mplayer originally intended for the Zaurus, mentioned by anrp on IRC. I played back a random video - which happened to be VIDEO: MPEG1 352x240 (aspect 1) 24.000 fps 1536.0 kbps (192.0 kbyte/s) It 'just worked

Re: Video playback - reasonable sized works!

2007-08-06 Thread Ian Stirling
Steve Seltzer wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: Using a copy of mplayer originally intended for the Zaurus, mentioned by anrp on IRC. I played back a random video - which happened to be VIDEO: MPEG1 352x240 (aspect 1) 24.000 fps 1536.0 kbps (192.0 kbyte/s) It 'just worked

Re: Video playback - reasonable sized works!

2007-08-06 Thread Ian Stirling
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: 192Kbytes/sec - not really close. 192KB/s = 1536Kb/s B - Bytes b - bits Different units, same bandwidth. Indeed. However, why do you think that the speed of the SD is close to 200KB/s, because it isn't

Re: What's the real scope of hardware openness?

2007-08-06 Thread Ian Stirling
Luca Dionisi wrote: Hi all, I have a likely silly question. I'm wondering why is it that in the mobile phone world there has not been a revolution similar to the P2P that we have seen in the internet, e.g. with emule or bittorrent, that is where the users are benefitting from each other

Re: 700 Mhz Spectrum Auction

2007-08-05 Thread Ian Stirling
kenneth marken wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2007 20:21:57 Derek Pressnall wrote: On 8/2/07, Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: However, the signals from distant stations still interfere, and increase the channel noise level, reducing range. With planned

Re: 700 Mhz Spectrum Auction

2007-08-02 Thread Ian Stirling
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Umm. The 700MHz spectrum would about cope with one 802.11g equivalent data-rate channel. The whole analog TV allocation that they are reallocating is a bit more than one 22Mhz WIFI channel. Each 4 adjacent TV channels

Re: 700 Mhz Spectrum Auction

2007-08-01 Thread Ian Stirling
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Harrison Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope everyone will voice their disappointment to the FCC. I just wrote letters to my sen/rep and the FCC (it felt great lol). ... I wonder if any pressure can be put on the FCC to reserve some of the public airwaves

Re: GTA02 Board only option in October?

2007-07-31 Thread Ian Stirling
Steve wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: I would like to see a bare GTA01 board being available - even after GTA02 becomes available. snip Looking at the Photos of the current version, the processor appears to be BGA. That'll make some things a bit hard. It'd be really nice if FIC routed any

Re: Anyone, not billed yet?

2007-07-31 Thread Ian Stirling
Dan Trevino wrote: ow. So what time frame can i expect being order #3056 (base, blk/slv)? And when can I tell my developer friends that they can buy one and it'll arrive in a week. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

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

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

2007-07-29 Thread Ian Stirling
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Michael Welter wrote: You're confusing GSM (Global Systems Mobile) with the gsm codec in Asterisk. I find that highly likely. I'm pretty new to Asterisk. They have different meanings. The codecs used by your mobile phone are not the same as the gsm codec in

Re: An idea of sorts

2007-07-28 Thread Ian Stirling
Max Giesbert wrote: sounds like an excellent idea to me. would definitely be a killer application to use the phone in a peer-to-peer style without using the telco network. UI-wise this could be realized in organizing the addressbook more like a IM client where you can see if your buddies are in

Re: another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail

2007-07-28 Thread Ian Stirling
Mark Eichin wrote: Use case: When I'm walking around, I'll answer the phone. When I'm driving, I won't (one phonecall == two beers worth of distraction)... but am willing to pull over if the caller thinks it's important enough. I shouldn't have to *tell* the phone what mode I'm in:

Re: Wiki application list.

2007-07-27 Thread Ian Stirling
Frans Grotepass wrote: I want to order a GTA-01, but some questions still remain. 1: What is the status of various developments in the applications. The wiki lacks enough informaiton. Is something like this list possible?

Re: Data Link Disable Capability?

2007-07-27 Thread Ian Stirling
David S Gathright wrote: Thanks for the replies, all. I guess what I was wishing for was a 'built-in' way to disable the connection (call it 'economy mode' for the 'thrift-conscious'). I can settle for a hack, though, I suppose...as long as it's not too much of a pain (i.e. having to repeat N

Re: Wiki application list.

2007-07-27 Thread Ian Stirling
Nelson Castillo wrote: On 7/27/07, Mark Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (cut) 3: How long does the device run on a battery? On an 850mAh nokia battery... maybe 3 hours mostly idle (not sure, I came back to find it dead.) Haven't timed it with the 1200mAh real battery, but basically, power

Re: Fwd: Wiki application list.

2007-07-27 Thread Ian Stirling
Mark Eichin wrote: I seem to have wiped out my GPS drivers and applications in my initial flash also. Had to - I didn't know of a way to back up before doing so. Same here - though given that the kernel couldn't find init, I'm not actually convinced that they *were* on the installed

Next batch of Neo1973s.

2007-07-26 Thread Ian Stirling
Best guesses from the uninformed are that 1000 orders have been made for phones. (based on P1_Orders, ...) And 1000 phones have been made. Have the next batch been ordered? If so, approximately when are they due? ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Why you won't find me in the forum much

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Stirling
Rod Whitby wrote: I have no problem with OpenMoko creating a forum for end users. As a developer, I won't be going there regularly. I might drop in now and again to see what the signal to noise ratio is. Why? Simply because the only time of the day where I can spare 60 minutes to catch up on

Re: email vs forum

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Stirling
John Seghers wrote: Ortwin Regel wrote: The screen size argument also doesn't work too well as the Neo has 640*480 which is plenty and an official forum would obviously make sure to fit well into that resolution. I'm sure it will fit well...but will you actually be able to read it

Re: Marketing... aGPS uses

2007-07-24 Thread Ian Stirling
Adam Krikstone wrote: AGPS is where focus needs to be. This natural (and free) comparative advantage needs to be developed to attract new developers and customers. Of these, I think only the following are not on wiki: 7. Neo ping - wifi/bt in conjunction with accelerometers able to find

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