Re: Alternatives to FR

2010-02-12 Thread Lowell Higley
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com wrote: Lowell Higley higleylh-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org writes: So I would say that no, the device drivers will not be open source. I would say the developer community would be provided with binary kernel

Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-10 Thread Lowell Higley
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Marc-Olivier Barre ma...@marcochapeau.orgwrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:58:38 +0100, Lowell Higley higle...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:12 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.auwrote: What alternatives to the FR (with the same functionality

Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-09 Thread Lowell Higley
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:12 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.auwrote: What alternatives to the FR (with the same functionality) are there? I want 3G phone/sms access and the FR doesnt cut it any more ... Sorry to join the conversation so late but this is my favorite so far as a

Re: [Shr-User] Babiloo on Openmoko - Second milestone

2009-11-23 Thread Lowell Higley
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Vaudano Luca vaud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I just release the second milestone of Babiloo, a offline dictionaries reader, for SHR. Please note that it works only with MrMoku SHR branch. Babiloo for Neo page:

Re: [ALL] POLL: What distro do you use?

2009-09-01 Thread Lowell Higley
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: (I personally think that we've already seen what we want: what's the most popular distro, and how much more popular it is than the others and the same for the boot loader - I'm sure the results will not radically change,

Re: [ALL] POLL: What distro do you use?

2009-09-01 Thread Lowell Higley
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.plwrote: [cut] I completely agree... over 275 respondents with SHR claiming 65% of the usage votes. I don't think carrying on the poll will alter the results significantly. So, you assume almost no one reads CU? In that

Re: [shr-unstable] making bricks...

2009-06-28 Thread Lowell Higley
There's been a change to the bootloader.. the following text was from a message that came across the developer mailing list back in April. *As this looks like it's becoming a Frequently Asked Question, I'll send this note to a wider audience. Please forgive me if this is obvious to most of the

Re: [shr-unstable] making bricks...

2009-06-28 Thread Lowell Higley
As root, I drop the following in a terminal: *iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.0/24 sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 ip addr add 192.168.0.200/24 dev eth1 ifconfig eth1 up ssh r...@192.168.0.202* Works like a charm. Only caveat is make sure you clear the previous SSH

Re: [shr-unstable] making bricks...

2009-06-28 Thread Lowell Higley
Two comments and then I need to hit the road. 1) I tried using a SHR unstable image a few days ago (the 26th I believe) and found that it had some serious issues and went back to my previous image. I was able to SSH in but I wasn't able to do small things like receive SMS or make/receive calls.

Re: how dangerous Freerunner could be?

2009-06-07 Thread Lowell Higley
a US version is rare case of lack of coverage in some rural zones of Europe. I live in Kosovo... I don't know how you can get more rural than that. lol. LOL for the chicken sacrifice, a BBQ always helps! 2009/6/7 Lowell Higley higle...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:30 PM, ivvmm

Analyst Angle: The dark side of the open OS handset trend

2008-12-15 Thread Lowell Higley
I debated for about 10 minutes whether or not this article is pertinent to this mailing list. In the end, I decided to forward it. I think it's a good sign that the analysts are even looking at the open handset trend. Operative word is trend, perhaps?

Re: SIM cards for Freerunner (was Free Runner price vs iphone 3G price)

2008-06-11 Thread Lowell Higley
ATT in the US does offer SIMs without a phone. However, you have to go into a Corporate store. The resellers generally won't or can't do this. I do not know, however, if they offer SIMs with contracts. To my knowledge, they only do this with pay as you go SIMs. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41

Re: SIM cards for Freerunner (was Free Runner price vs iphone 3G price)

2008-06-11 Thread Lowell Higley
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Dean writes: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: US. To me, it's quite obvious that a contract without a phone *should* be cheaper, but that's a long way from is (it actually

Re: No 3G for GTA03, 2G/EDGE only?

2008-06-11 Thread Lowell Higley
Dismal. although ATT is currently scurrying to significantly upgrade their 3G network in order to support iPhone 2.0. http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800cdvn=newsnewsarticleid=25146 I don't think TMobile currently uses 3G. I barely even got EDGE coverage from Tmobile when I left the

Re: SIM cards for Freerunner (was Free Runner price vs iphone 3G price)

2008-06-11 Thread Lowell Higley
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Kevin Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note this is an OFF LIST reply, since it is off topic for Openmoko mailing lists. Huh? I agree, this is off topic but your reply did go out to the entire list. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Lowell Higley

Re: Free Runner price vs iphone 3G price

2008-06-10 Thread Lowell Higley
I think what Ian is trying to say is that contract or not, you still have to pay for your phone service and data service. So if you spend US$50/mo on a data plan, it does come out to be more expensive with the FreeRunner if and *only if* you plan to use the phone for two years. if you plan on

Re: Free Runner price vs iphone 3G price

2008-06-10 Thread Lowell Higley
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Robert Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A $600 SUBSIDIZED phone on a 2 year contract ($200 up front cost to subscriber) VS a $200 moko UNSUBSIDIZED phone PLUS a 2 year contract. Of course they are bloody the same price up front, THE MOKO ISN'T SUBSIDIZED.

Re: comparing Apples and Oranges $199 iPhone Freerunner GTA02

2008-06-10 Thread Lowell Higley
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i remember reading somewhere that the iphone's os can't run multiple applications at once - sorry no source for this. did i get this right, if i did, that's a major bonus to om/freerunner? It's not that it can't... If I

Re: Landscape keyboard

2008-06-09 Thread Lowell Higley
I think it's a great idea. Kin to the old ergonomic keyboards. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Steven Milburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...The keyboard itself has very minimal needs in terms of resolution, but it steals

Re: OT: TinyURL [Was: OT: ajax image galleries]

2008-06-04 Thread Lowell Higley
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Do 5. Juni 2008 schrieb AVee: On Wednesday 04 June 2008 22:55, Andy Powell wrote: tinyurl is useful instead of typing in twattishly long urls which many sites insist on using. Generally you don;t want to

Re: QTopia Contacts issue

2008-05-29 Thread Lowell Higley
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have so many contacts, it would be nice if you had more control over the list format. The only choices I see (under Options-Display Settings) are First Last or Company and Last,First or Company. I'd like to see an

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

2008-04-29 Thread Lowell Higley
will never sell in the mass-market because me my friends think it's ugly, and my counterpoint was, heck, I'm sure FIC have done some market research (focus groups c). Lowell Higley obviously knows his stuff regarding selling tech products, and he raises some interesting points. I immediately

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

2008-04-27 Thread Lowell Higley
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Lowell Higley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So please don't be offended but saying I don't like it and neither do my friends is totally irrelevant - come back when you've interviewed a hundred

Re: Ugliness (was Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!)

2008-04-26 Thread Lowell Higley
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So please don't be offended but saying I don't like it and neither do my friends is totally irrelevant - come back when you've interviewed a hundred different people and they've scored the Freerunner (alongside several other

Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!

2008-04-25 Thread Lowell Higley
Nine out of ten typical consumers I show it to think it's ugly and wouldn't buy it because of looks alone. If I show it to a techie type, I get the what are the specs? question. Lesson? To the consumer, beauty is only skin deep. Us techie types are deeper and can see the true beauty. Who

Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!

2008-04-25 Thread Lowell Higley
It was the GTA01.. the first pics I saw of the GTA02 was last week. I showed both colors of the GTA01. I got the impression was it was the shape that was a turn off but I am not sure because I never asked for that kind of detail. Although I do have to admit I'd never heard it called a buttplug

Re: 3G? What about CDMA?

2008-04-17 Thread Lowell Higley
I believe CDMA is a proprietary technology owned/licensed/patented by Qualcom. If that is correct, you'd have to license to use the patent. Kind of conflicts with the idea of an open phone. I guess no more so than some of the GSM stuff... but hey.. who knows. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:02 AM,

Re: End User Input....and Question

2008-04-16 Thread Lowell Higley
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hardware is complete. But I assume that if hardware bugs are discovered, it will be considered to fix them before the consumer release (depending on the bug). Since all the software isn't ready yet, I guess

Re: Charger? (was: Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update)

2008-04-14 Thread Lowell Higley
I think I'm going to have to completely disagree on this one. I RARELY plug anything into a computer to simply charge it. I'd venture almost never. The idea that I HAVE to plug a device into a computer to charge it is completely ridiculous to me. I'd bet my experience as a product marketer that

Re: Charger? (was: Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update)

2008-04-14 Thread Lowell Higley
Apple or one from eBay. best, marcus On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 00:57 -0700, Lowell Higley wrote: I think I'm going to have to completely disagree on this one. I RARELY plug anything into a computer to simply charge it. I'd venture almost never. The idea that I HAVE to plug a device

Re: Target Market (was: Re: Charger?)

2008-04-14 Thread Lowell Higley
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:01 AM, thomasg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you'll get used to it :) USB-Charging is fine. You can use a standard usb-wallcharger as well as any mini-usb cable or usb-carchargers and so on. I know this isn't the case, but if were to HAVE to plug it into a computer, it

Re: Target Market (was: Re: Charger?)

2008-04-14 Thread Lowell Higley
Then I'll shut up. BTW, I don't hate or love the visual look of the Neo. It's more function than anything else to me. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/14/08, Lowell Higley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:01 AM

Re: Target Market (was: Re: Charger?)

2008-04-14 Thread Lowell Higley
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My personal view is looking at the Neo as a Linux computer and not just as a phone - this opens a completely different perspective: as such the Neo is an absolutely unique device. There is only one similar device which is the

Re: Charger? (was: Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update)

2008-04-14 Thread Lowell Higley
Just trying to help. Not terribly useful at the engineering stuff any more so trying to help how I can. :) On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:59 AM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Lowell. The phone will ship with a wall charger. --

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-13 Thread Lowell Higley
I would consider the following if I were in your shoes... 1) include the custom (closed) cable or at least make it an option 2) ensure the manual includes that a standard USB cable will work. Be sure to list the limitations of said cable. (I think the wiki has this but it needs to be in the docs

Re: 850MHz or 900MHz? ATT or TMobile?

2008-03-23 Thread Lowell Higley
I've had the exact opposite experience. I had been a T-Mobile USA customer for over three years..they made a mistake, even admitted to making the mistake but wouldn't correct it (refunding money to me). I've found that T-Mobile's customer service is not great... each time I contact them, it gets

Re: 850MHz or 900MHz? ATT or TMobile?

2008-03-23 Thread Lowell Higley
I bought a tri-band phone while I lived in Europe. It is 900Mhz/1900Mhz. I had no problems with it on T-Mobile's USA network while I was their customer. I tend to buy my phones is Asia or Europe because they are unlocked and usually not crippled. T-Mobile in particular likes to artificially

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread Lowell Higley
Having lived in the US and Europe... 1) We usually do pay shipping from China. It's usually built into the cost of the product so it's hard to say exactly what it is. I would guess less than $10 a unit. 2) We do not have VAT in the US. Closest thing we have to it is sales tax. Most states have

Re: Go Phone without the phone

2008-03-10 Thread Lowell Higley
You can buy a Go Phone SIM card ($25, I think) at any ATT store operated by corporate (resellers are generally useless in anything out of the norm.) On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Ajit Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there a way to subscribe to ATT Go Phone in the U.S. without