Re: Intel Atom

2008-08-15 Thread Peter Kraker
You must start to realize just how low power mobile devices must be, to be actually useful. Geode, Atom, Fusion, everyone of these is a power hog compared to ARM. My vote goes for low clocked OMAP3530. Best regards Peter Kraker abatrour pravi: Amd is working on their Fusion CPU/GPU

Re: GTA02 GPS rework for SD card interference issue

2008-07-23 Thread Peter Kraker
It's more likely you were too slow for Kalman filtering to do its magic. Peter Kraker Yorick Moko pravi: i tried to walk with tangogps and sometimes i jumed 1-2 km in a random direction and kept drifting there were no roads in openstreetmaps for my location, could this influence it? On Wed

Re: GPS

2008-06-23 Thread Peter Kraker
This timings are insane unless you don't even have a valid almanac, which is rare. This doesn't look right. Yorick Matthys pravi: Marcus Bauer said: My experience with the Freerunner is ~12 minutes TTFF (time to first fix) without use of agps and ~4-8 minutes TTFF with agps from

Re: GTA03: New case? Bigger screen!

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Kraker
I want a phone, not a tablet. -1. Ilja O. pravi: me wants it too ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Click Feedback?

2008-06-10 Thread Peter Kraker
As long as visual feedback is adequate, I don't see why not. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer pravi: Hi guys, we have been shipping pulseaudio (which is quite a CPU hog on embedded systems) on our rootfs for quite a while now. The main reason not to use alsa directly was because of mixing, since

Re: accuracy gps-chip?

2008-05-07 Thread Peter Kraker
doable without much programming work involved I would think. It won't be supported out-of-the box though. Best regards Peter Kraker Jens Meyer pravi: Hello all (especially the GPS-specialists)! Actually I am considering to buy an external GPS-mouse (bluetooth + datalogger) for geotagging

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

2008-04-24 Thread Peter Kraker
As written by raster, you can play video at lower resolution. Also implementing support for mpeg4 should help a great deal. David Samblas Martinez pravi: I'm gonna still buy the freerunner when as soon as it become avialble and I will work as hard as my non-linux-freak life let me do it. But

Re: Freerunner and Earthquakes

2008-04-20 Thread Peter Kraker
Actually it is incredibly accurate only if you use PPS output otherwise idea of having atomic clock in your pocket goes out of the window. Richard Guest pravi: GPS essentially *is* accurate timing... GPS satellites are flying atomic clocks. Trimble has a good GPS tutorial -

Re: 99

2008-04-20 Thread Peter Kraker
I see those 2€ as some kind of twisted way of openmoko giving me a free beer ;) Alexey Feldgendler pravi: The prices for GTA02 and the debug board are $399 and $99, respectively. While there's nothing wrong with charging exactly 99 dollars for something, the practice of reducing a round

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread Peter Kraker
Someone with a knack for business should simply grab those CAD files and start manufacturing replacement cases in gazillion different colors. Bastian Muck pravi: What about colored stickers? I think it could be cheap to design and cut them to fit at the neo. I guess this could be a solution to

Re: Qtopia on Neo FreeRunner?

2008-04-16 Thread Peter Kraker
Lorry Potter from Trolltech is doing that. Jeff Tranter pravi: Are there any plans to support Qtopia on the Neo FreeRunner GTA02? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Accelerometer brainstorming

2008-03-28 Thread Peter Kraker
Unfortunately you need accurate speed to be able to get usable data from accelerometers for that. That's why some GPS modules have an interface for tachometer. Joseph Reeves pravi: To join this post and your previous post, how about using the accelerometers to enhance the GPS? Not just for

Re: Openmoko release

2008-03-08 Thread Peter Kraker
I agree, non-polished software is not a show stopper for me either. Daniel Spies pravi: If the Freerunner is now free of hardware failures I would like to get one, even if the software is not mass market ready, simply because I don't want to use my spare phone any more (Nokia 3410). As long as