Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Jim Thompson
Attila Csipa wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:26, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Gibson Musical Instruments, where we were designing what was effectively a custom PDA (don't ask.) guitar tuner? There were several delays, And wait, and wait. And it never shows up. Then you get back on the pho

Re: OpenMoko - We Need HYPE, and we need it yesterday!

2007-06-04 Thread Jim Thompson
el jefe delito wrote: I hope that we can start to create some buzz about this product! Being open, being able to work with multiple service providers, being unlocked, being cheaper, being higher-resolution... all of these are benefits that we must PROMOTE. The quicker we can post on an artic

Re: Neo1973 vs Future OpenMoko Devices - whats a buyer to do?

2007-05-25 Thread Jim Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've not seen any of these devices except in the photos, and I've not seen any video/screen capture of the software in its current state. I understand that this is a first-generation device, and that when the Neo1973 is released that FIC will also be releasing a few addi

Re: FCC Approval

2007-05-22 Thread Jim Thompson
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:54 -0400, Duncan Hudson wrote: That’s about as far as I bothered reading – I’ll wait until there is an official FIC response in the next 24-48 hours about how they intend to supply orders in the USA before I bother reading any more. The NEO wil

Re: FCC Approval

2007-05-21 Thread Jim Thompson
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 21.05.2007 um 04:57 schrieb Joe Friedrichsen: It would be great to know if any of the P0 folks are US-based as well. The majority sound European, save Rod :-) Well, the EU has similar rules but there is no central "FCC". It is called "CE" and the entity (y

Re: FCC Approval

2007-05-20 Thread Jim Thompson
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: For purposes of the regulations, what exactly is a "device"? If the actual tranceiver is approved (and I assume it is), does that carry approval for a phone using it? http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/rules/ ___ OpenMoko community mai

Re: FCC Approval

2007-05-20 Thread Jim Thompson
Jason Elwell wrote: Jim, Question: Do the regulations govern devices that are offered for sale in the US, but not devices that are sold by an off-shore company to people in the US? I was under the impression that any electronic device sold for use in the USA has to be cleared by the FCC. C

Re: FCC Approval

2007-05-20 Thread Jim Thompson
Duncan Hudson wrote: Just read that the iPhone was granted FCC approval. I asked along time ago, has the OpenMoko FCC certification process even begun yet? No FCC approval, no license to sell the product in the US... Its not a "license". You can't sell, or offer to sell a device subject to

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-11 Thread Jim Thompson
not plan. If OpenMoko is found to be a better environment than (or for) the iPhone (as well as other phones)... "success!". If Sun's "JavaFX Mobile", well... "success"! Jim Shawn Rutledge wrote: On 5/10/07, Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Jim Thompson
Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded wrote: Shawn, I have been very involved in this area at Sun now for a couple of years. Let me add come comments: Hardware accelerated Java is actually fairly common already, at least in the Java ME space using ARM's Jazelle technology. It does

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Jim Thompson
I know its bad form to respond to one's own posting, but watch the end of the 'webcast' around the 15:00 mark, just after McNealy gets up to talk about Curriki, and then compares Rich Green to Jobs, where Jonathan Schwartz turns to ask Rich Green: JS: "Rich, how would you feel about someone

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Jim Thompson
Sander van Grieken wrote: Sander van Grieken wrote: I think (hope?) it is the new appearance of Savaje platform (+ JavaFX scripting). That's correct. This is going to be very cool stuff. And the Neo is definitely very high on the list of devices I want to see this running on. If I understand c

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Jim Thompson
Sander van Grieken wrote: I think (hope?) it is the new appearance of Savaje platform (+ JavaFX scripting). That's correct. This is going to be very cool stuff. And the Neo is definitely very high on the list of devices I want to see this running on. If I understand correctly, JavaFX Script is

Re: GPS module, sense of direction

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Thompson
Vladimír Lapáček wrote: Hi, I am quite currious about the GPS module planned in Neo 1973. For me it is one of the really nice things about Neo. I don't have much experience with GPS, but this really makes me thinking about buying the device. My question is if in Neo will have sense of direction

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Thompson
Steven ** wrote: On 4/29/07, Martin Lefkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an HTC wizard right now branded as cingular that I am running skype on. If I remember correctly I downloaded the software off the skype site for this handset. Does this mean it's approved or not approved? With yo

Re: Some light ahead...

2007-04-27 Thread Jim Thompson
Igor Foox wrote: On 27-Apr-07, at 5:09 PM, Duncan Hudson wrote: I think it's wrong to assume that every customer that FIC loses with the Neo will go to the iPhone. First of all the iPhone's price point is quite high when compared to the Neo, and will be out of reach for many. Also see my poi

Re: Some light ahead...

2007-04-26 Thread Jim Thompson
Ian Stirling wrote: But of course, the software would have been a hell of a lot more ready come 2-3 months before september, when it might otherwise have been shown to some carriers that might have been interested in subsidising it, or phone shops, if the original January date had been kept.

Re: Some light ahead...

2007-04-25 Thread Jim Thompson
Duncan Hudson wrote: Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Finally, we've already begun moving production into one of our factories in mainland China. There are two runs scheduled now: May 10th and May 20th. We're going to take those runs a bit slow just to make sure the quality is high. And then starting in J

Re: built-in scripting languages.

2007-04-18 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 18, 2007, at 2:41 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: PyGTK looks like the most likely contender to me -- not just because I wrote a book about it and I'm the author of almost everything Python-related in OE, but also because PyGTK is pretty mature and easy to extend (you probably have see

Re: built-in scripting languages.

2007-04-18 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:44 AM, Dmitri Hrapof wrote: Jamie Allsop пишет: Yes this page is very good. One thing you might want to note also is that there is a nice C++ binding for Python in boost . Please don't infer from this that I am a big Python fan, most of my scripting to date has been