Re: New screen?

2008-01-05 Thread Joshua Layne
Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Actually... I'm pretty sure this is the same screen we're using on the myPhone project, and it's actually quite usable. The 4.3 480x272 has the advantages that: * it's a tad cheaper than the 3.8 640x480 screen, way cheaper in volume * it has slightly

Re: What to use while waiting of v2?

2007-12-16 Thread Joshua Layne
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:09:47 +0100, Krzysztof Kajkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wiadomość napisana w dniu Dec 16, 2007, o godz 3:45 PM, przez Ben: I can't hold out any longer. I'm thinking of ipod touch (the jailbreaked one) for GTD and PDA. I'm using mac as my primary computer and

OT:administrivia -- a request to reduce duplicate mails

2007-12-05 Thread Joshua Layne
Hi all, I am subscribed to several of the openmoko lists. When someone copies multiple lists on a message, I get all the copies (usually 3 for some reason). Worse, when anyone replies to the initial mail, they reply all and I get another full set of mails. I realize that there are valid reasons

Re: OT:administrivia -- a request to reduce duplicate mails

2007-12-05 Thread Joshua Layne
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:57:54 +0100, Lars Hallberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Layne skrev: Hi all, I am subscribed to several of the openmoko lists. When someone copies multiple lists on a message, I get all the copies (usually 3 for some reason). Worse, when anyone replies

Re: Development env *on* the neo?

2007-12-04 Thread Joshua Layne
First, while I have done basically what you are talking about, I am now a believer in cross compile environments, even with all their pain. Several years ago, I built roadmap-gtk2 on my h2200 ipaq because I couldn't then get the cross compile environment set up. It took over a day and locked the

RE: need someone to develop this....

2007-11-28 Thread Joshua Layne
+1 that would be sweet On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:35:27 -0500, Dean Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lol - I love it. Fantastic. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: BT Laptop tether profile

2007-11-27 Thread Joshua Layne
DUN (Dial up Networking) is the standard, I believe. That gives control to the 'laptop', whereas PAN (Personal Area Network) really just networks the two devices and doesn't necessarily provide for connection sharing, IIRC, but this is all from memory, so I may be quite mistaken. HTH, josh On

RDS/RBDS FM receiver (external) for traffic conditions

2007-11-18 Thread Joshua Layne
Hi All, A lot of my personal interest is in context-aware aps (particularly with the embedded GPS) and (unfortunately) I spend a fair bit of time in my car each day. It would be really nice to get traffic updates to the neo as an enhancement to any mapping/navigation programs. and *no*, this

Re: RDS/RBDS FM receiver (external) for traffic conditions

2007-11-18 Thread Joshua Layne
Doug Sutherland wrote: Josh, I have the USB FM radio stick. A USB audio device does appear when it's plugged in. However, there is no audio until the FM radio app is run. This does SPI communication with the SI4701 to init and change its settings. They claim it uses standard USBaudio for

Re: RDS/RBDS FM receiver (external) for traffic conditions

2007-11-18 Thread Joshua Layne
Doug Sutherland wrote: Josh wrote: I have always thought of HID as using an external device that then communicates to the computer, this is using a virtual app on the computer to control an external device - I don't disagree that it is Human Interface. Aside from keyboards and mice,

Re: FM radio reception on neo/openmoko and some other questions

2007-11-18 Thread Joshua Layne
somehow I missed this entirely (although I know I read it) I apologize for jumping threads and starting a new topic - it wasn't even a week ago j. Doug Sutherland wrote: Georg wrote: no only in terms of speakerphone, also the navigational software (as far as there'll be one) may be

Re: Neo1973/OpenMoko as a laptop replacement

2007-11-17 Thread Joshua Layne
Ted Lemon wrote: On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 11:19 -0800, Michael Shiloh wrote: I'd like to explore adding a head mounted display to the Neo, like the i-glasses PC/SVGA Head Mounted Display at about $700. Would require an off-board SVGA controller, which could be prototyped with a USB SVGA

question on 850... and alternate hardware hack ideas

2007-11-13 Thread Joshua Layne
So I am sure that this is a silly question and there is no way to send an AT command to set the TI GSM modem to use NA frequencies, but that is exactly the case with the telit modules (e.g. the GM862: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=757) -- AT#BND=1 sets the

Re: Android isn't a Java Platform - Say Hello to Dalvik

2007-11-13 Thread Joshua Layne
William Weinberg wrote: Dear OpenMoko Friends See the following blog about the neat tricks that Google performed to sidestep Sun Java licensing requirements. http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/ The short of is - Android code is written to a unique dialect of Java

Re: Community update: The 850 MHz issue

2007-11-06 Thread Joshua Layne
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:37:39 -0800, Joshua Layne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate to add to the fire on this one, but no 850 is a definite deal breaker. No quad-band is a serious limitation, as it has been marketed since inception as a quad-band phone. I see now that the openmoko.com page

Re: Community update: The 850 MHz issue

2007-11-05 Thread Joshua Layne
I hate to add to the fire on this one, but no 850 is a definite deal breaker. No quad-band is a serious limitation, as it has been marketed since inception as a quad-band phone. I'm not sure that I am willing to spend $450 for a non-world phone. Regards, joshua Tupshin Harper wrote: FWIW, I

Re: HD8X FCC approved

2007-10-31 Thread Joshua Layne
Adam wrote: Sorry if this has been posted before. FCC: http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/fcc_query.php?gc=EUNpc=HXD8V2 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/HXD8 It is called Dash Express. http://dash.net/ instead of dash.org NameDash Express Screen 4.3 480x320 WQVGA Flash3 GB CPU

Re: Possible to add OpenMoko to the email title

2007-10-18 Thread Joshua Layne
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:59:41 -0600, David Shanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, New to the list and excited about the possibility of a open phone. Still new so i'm mainly lurking for now. I suppose this is directed to the list moderators/admins. I was wondering if there is a way to

Re: Bi-weekly OpenMoko community update

2007-10-16 Thread Joshua Layne
Derek Pressnall wrote: If the gpsd falls into catagory 3 (and not 2), then for me that is ok, as long as it is bug free, will work with updated kernels, and has a defined api for talking to it from other apps. In that case, I can treat it as if I'm using a gps chip that spits out the protocal

Re: interface design suggestions

2007-10-15 Thread Joshua Layne
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:19:57 -0500, Jeffrey Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be honest, I understand the concepts of better contrast etc, but the proposed interface is very blockish and not nearly as nice looking as the fades and the use of Orange in the current. I do understand that it is

Re: [Data Calls] over [Wifi Mesh network]

2007-10-15 Thread Joshua Layne
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:57:55 -0500, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're not available to anyone yet. -Steven I don't believe that is entirely true, given that they are on the third revision of GTA02 and I believe Thomas Wood has posted about working on both a GTA01 and a GTA02.

Re: OpenMoko talk at SDForum, Palo Alto

2007-10-10 Thread Joshua Layne
The talk was great. Thank you very much, Michael. Also, for me it was the first time that I got hands-on with a neo. I am definitely getting a GTA02 - the form factor is actually pretty nice. We didn't get the beer afterward organized though - we need to work on that for next time :) I think

Re: gtk-sharp packages available for neo

2007-10-05 Thread Joshua Layne
, Mikkel Joshua Layne skrev: On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:05:21 +0200, Mikkel Meyer Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How shoud I refer to libmokoui (e.g. MokoApplication and MokoAlignment) from within a Mono-application? I assume you have seen this? http://folks.o-hand.com/thomas/libmokoui2

Re: Unified PIM

2007-09-26 Thread Joshua Layne
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:49:43 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess my only comment is that while I don't really care which interface people use on their phones, it seems like the data interfaces should be the same... If I open up qtopia phone edition and look at my contacts or maybe even

Re: Help Request for our Webshop

2007-09-22 Thread Joshua Layne
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Dear Community, We have a specification and database model in place for our new webshop but we can't find the resources needed to implement this in the near future. We are looking for something as follows: * Accept numerous online and offline payment processing

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Joshua Layne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This is something someone else touched on. If you're writing an application, abstract all the complicated stuff away from the UI code, then you can make whatever kind of UI you want. NetworkManager I think is a perfect example of this. It would be good to have a

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-18 Thread Joshua Layne
Michael Schmidt wrote: Hi, great news, but what does this mean? We need a posting of the projekt management, will Neo s Menue switch to QT? This means a GTK application will not work? Or: Any QT-Applicaiton will work now automatically? We need this info, for a decision, to stick to the library

dialer suggestion

2007-09-16 Thread Joshua Layne
kinda tongue-in-cheek, but... so kinetic scrolling works now and all the 'dialer' does is capture numbers to send to the GSM chip. what about an old-school dialer? OK, maybe 'retro' is a better name at this point. ROTARY baby! kitsch. flare. nobodyelsehasit. (maybe there is a reason for

Re: application idea

2007-09-15 Thread Joshua Layne
Denis Parchenko wrote: Is it really impossible somewhere in airport to find out current weather outside? For example on some info-boards... It isn't nearly as much fun. How can you walk around the airport with your head buried in your neo, bumping into people otherwise? Seriously - I

ping?

2007-09-15 Thread Joshua Layne
Hi - sorry for the 'spam' - I am not receiving messages from this (or other) openmoko list. anyone else having the same problem? ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

please disregard -- Re: ping? (nt)

2007-09-15 Thread Joshua Layne
error on my end apparently - sorry for the spam On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:17:13 -0700, Joshua Layne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - sorry for the 'spam' - I am not receiving messages from this (or other) openmoko list. anyone else having the same problem

2007.2 dialer suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Joshua Layne
I saw some feedback on this at one point, but I have been unable to locate the thread - so... I like most of what I see in the 2007.2 dialer mockups, but there are two glaring usabiliy issues in my mind. One, the answer icon doesn't look that much different from the ignore icon:

GPS driver -- was: Re: Apple is going to beat all competitors

2007-09-11 Thread Joshua Layne
Joshua Layne wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: Jens Fursund wrote: On 9/9/07, *Giles Jones* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing wrong with the hardware, there's just no open source GPS driver yet. I´m confused: Does this mean that the GTA02 will include GPS

wiki problem?

2007-09-10 Thread Joshua Layne
Hi, I am unable to verify my email address (and therefore edit pages) - tried twice now (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Confirmemail) and each time the code that was sent was 'invalid' less than two minutes after requesting it (the email claimed it was valid until Septembe3r 17) Any

fixed -- Re: wiki problem?

2007-09-10 Thread Joshua Layne
wow. within a few minutes of sending this, I was sent another confirmation link that worked. thanks for the quick response. joshua On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:13:07 -0700, Joshua Layne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to verify my email address (and therefore edit pages) - tried twice now

Re: Apple is going to beat all competitors

2007-09-06 Thread Joshua Layne
Hi all, I'm new to the listserv. very much looking forward to the october please no delays! release of the neo. While the announcement below is neat. And the hardware for the iphone is neat. I'll wait for the neo. I have no love for ATT and will not spend a dime (much less $399) on another