Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 17:53, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Monday 30 January 2012 15:42:14 Patryk Benderz wrote: [cut] This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. No mention of tax

Re: Very high capacity battery for GTA02

2011-10-20 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 16:11, Eric Smith e...@fruitcom.com wrote: Hi Has any one experience with or suggestions for a very high capacity battery for the GTA02? I want to use the device as a remote tracking device and with good power management and high capacity battery want to deliver 3

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Boot speed comparison

2011-09-22 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:37, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote: Em 21-09-2011 18:28, Alon Ivtsan escreveu: The video doesn't work in IceCat using HTML5 (WebM). A free phone should deliver its videos in a patent unencumbered format whenever possible. YouTube converts do WebM, but

Re: ATT and my beloved Freerunner

2011-08-26 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:31:44 -0700 (PDT) error l...@cmccreery.com wrote: ATT has been calling and text'ing for the last 2 months.  They have informed me that my phone will no longer be compatible with their network on Monday Aug

Re: Video of SMD production of Freerunner Navigation Boards (GTA04 will look similar)

2011-06-10 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 16:38, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Dear all, we were allowed to look over the shoulders of the workers at the SMD fab that produces the Freerunner Navigation Board V3 and the GTA04. Here is the link:        

Re: No plans for fennec on the FR

2010-12-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 13:17, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/3 Delian deli...@gmail.com: Seems there's no hope of seeing a native FR version of fennec right now. [0] Well, we already have nice browsers so,  it's not a real big problem (IMHO). :P [0]

Re: iPhone 4G display for Openmoko?

2010-06-08 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 07:54, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Hi all, with the new iPhone it is for the first time better in display resolution (640x960 on 3''5 = 326 dpi) than the Freerunner (640x480 on 2''8 = 283 dpi) with higher dots per inch. Does anyone know where to

Re: is 0.4A sufficient for charging?

2009-06-23 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:31, ivvmmunachieva...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, going to buy a device from a local store that will convert alternating current from my bicycle's front hub dynamo to 5V 0.4A. Is that sufficient for charging my Neo? It is. USB is specified for 0.5 A @ 5V (^= 2.5

Re: om on flow

2009-05-25 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
i'm highly interested on the flow. it does everything better than the neo (well documented high end cpu, perfectly documented 7 band modem). the question is how it performs as a phone (battery, sound). and of course it's a little bulky and expensive. On 2009-05-25, Max m...@darim.com wrote:

Re: Why enlightenment?

2009-04-19 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:31:39 -0700 Ali alish...@interchange.ubc.ca said: On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 11:28 +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: . so what other choices do you have if you have eliminated qt for license

Re: sunlight readable LCD

2009-04-16 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:59 AM, carmen _...@whats-your.name wrote: Some ThinkPad X200 Tablets have similar AFFS+ screens of the same manufacturer if you want to see it in action. my X200 Tablet is unviewable in sun. standard CFFL backlight. i guess the LED is stronger? i use my Astak /

Re: sunlight readable LCD

2009-04-15 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Marcus Bauer marcus.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, Joseph Reeves wrote on his blog about a bicycle app for the Neo [1]. I have always wanted to add cycling / sports functions to tangoGPS but as the LCD is mostly unreadable in sunlight I felt there is

Re: Solar charger

2009-03-15 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Giovanni pino.o...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I bought this small portable solar charger: http://www.powersafer.net/it-it/prodotti/sc-10.html I found it in OBI (italian store) for 29.9 euro. It should be available also at Bennet and Conad, in Italy. It

Re: Freerunner freely runs Gentoo

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Sven Rebhan odinsho...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/3/4  roguem...@roguewrt.org: I'm waiting for the NetBSD+pkgsrc annoucement :) Isn't it possible to run Gentoo with a BSD kernel!? :-P /me runs and hides It's even officially supported:

Re: Annuncing new Project - Intone mplayer frontend

2009-02-21 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net wrote: Mplayer can't handle VBR mp3's by default. I have a patch [...] It can, and it does. I use mplayer as my only audio-player and listen to VBR MP3s every day. No need for a patch.

Re: GTK and OM

2009-02-16 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Michael Sheldon m...@mikeasoft.com wrote: Hi Kasper, I have, however, read a lot of places, that the GTK-support will be removed from the OpenMoko. I think you're probably just reading a lot of old articles about how the GTK based OpenMoko applications

Re: Neverball, anyone?

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Aapo Rantalainen aapo.rantalai...@gmail.com wrote: I made some first bitbake-recipe file and compiled Neverball 1.5.0 for Freerunner. It doesn't work. It is far too slow (less than 1fps). But maybe you want see it yourself:

Re: Neverball, anyone?

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Aapo Rantalainen aapo.rantalai...@gmail.com wrote: I made some first bitbake-recipe file and compiled Neverball 1.5.0 for Freerunner. It doesn't work. It is far too slow (less than

Euphony Beta 1 release

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Hey guys, some might have seen and remember epiano, the little demo app I wrote a while ago to have a nice touchscreen-piano for the Neo. Since then, I have been busy writing a successor that enhances the concept quite a bit. Some might already have seen or tested it, it's called Euphony. So -

Re: GPS

2008-07-10 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Jeffrey Ratcliffe schrieb: I'm having some trouble getting GPS to work on my Freerunner Having installed gpsd and tangogps, I tried starting gpsd and got: Starting gpsd: No /dev/ttyS3 GPS device, aborting gpsd startup. Check /etc/default/gpsd and tangogps couldn't find the gps receiver I

Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
I don't think qwerty is what we want really. Also that it requires only one keypress per letter is not fully true, as you have to use shift very often (capitals, special charakters, ...). Imho the display on the neo is way to small to have qwerty. The iphone shows, that eben the much bigger screen

Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
, I just don't know how flexible the docks are and what is possible with them. I don't like wasting that much screen for a bit more comfort, but let's see. On 2/29/08, enaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Gstädtner schrieb: I don't think qwerty is what we want really. Also that it requires

Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
-pad does for example), and to be still fast. Imho this is already possible - enter currently needs about 30% of the screen for input, is really fast for 1-finger-touchscreen-input, and it has 144 possible keys. On 2/29/08, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Gstädtner ha

Re: Mono development in openmoko

2008-02-01 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Well, the problem is, that .NET is owned by Microsoft and (partly?) available under a shared-source-license that allows to see the code, but not to use it. Microsoft has patents on .NET and even if Mono is free - it implements .NET and there might be problems if Microsoft decides to use their

Re: Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy

2008-01-28 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
About 50% of Symbian are owned by Nokia. On 1/28/08, Patrick Davila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the whole point of this takeover is Qtopia. Yes, the Nokia N800 series internet tablet uses Maemo (based on gtk). Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't most of Nokia's cell phones running

Re: gdm for the neo

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Well, I think that's pretty useless, because Qtopia uses FB instead of X11 und gdm is a X11-displaymanager. Also it's not that easy, because all the distros you mentioned are completely different in the whole softwarestack, so we're not talking about switching between windowmanagers or so. The

Re: Network questions

2007-12-26 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
My routing looks like this: PC: eth0=192.168.0.25 usb0=192.168.0.200 Router: 192.168.0.1 Neo: usb0=192.168.0.202 Routes: Neo: default gw 192.168.0.200 / route to 192.168.0.1 via 192.168.0.200 / nameserver 192.168.0.1 PC: default gw 192.168.0.1 / route to 192.168.0.1 via eth0 / route to

Turning Off The Display

2007-12-26 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Hey there, does somebody know if it is possible to turn off the Neo's display? Currently only the backlight is disabled and the display still stays on (what's totally useless and a waste of energy). I tried to use xset, but the driver seems not to support dpms. Any hints? To recognize that the

Re: Harald LaF0rge Welte: Leaving OpenMoko...

2007-11-16 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
It's really sad to hear this. With Harald one of the most trustworthy persons is gone. :( Well, I'm glad that the other guys like Mickey, Sean, Werner, Joachim, ... still are there, so I still believe that OpenMoko will be a success. Let's see what the future brings.

Re: Neo1973/OpenMoko as a laptop replacement

2007-11-16 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
I really like your idea. I also think that GTA02 will have enough power for a small notebook-replacement for a bit hacking, writing or something like this. If the lens would be mounted correctly I think this would be really cool. On software-side this could be done with using a new profile (like:

Re: google open phone platform

2007-11-05 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
They talk about open standards, not full open source. Seems the basic components will be Apache Licenced, but I'm pretty sure the low-level software will be closed. On 11/5/07, Dean Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep pretty much. There is a time and a window for technology releases like

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-11-02 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
You're talking about EFL, not e17. But e17 is of course running, too :) http://gstaedtner.net/e17_on_Neo.avi Back on topic: Welcome raster, I'm looking forward to see what the future will bring to us. On 11/2/07, Florent THIERY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running e17 even as we speak. Same

Re: Building for x86

2007-10-30 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Some of the people in #neo1973-germany (freenode) built OpenMoko for x86, so this seems to be no problem. I guess with Xephyr you'll have OpenMoko in a X-Window on your desktop. On 10/30/07, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been following the list a bit and I was wondering if it was

Re: Some ideas for the accelerometer

2007-10-15 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
I like the idea - especially because I always have full pockets and it takes hours to fish the phone out ;) Imho it should be possible to implement, a knock should give a peak you can't reach while walking and even if it happens, it shouldn't be that worse. 2007/10/14, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL

Re: Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
For a german keyboard you need at least 26+10+3+35=74 signs - and what much concepts do not yet handle are capital letters, or a shift key. If it should be really intuitive, you'd have to use special shapes for capital letters, because doing shift and typing the non-capital letter to do a capital

Re: stylus alternative

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Hehe, we just talked in the german irc channel about that. The korean company cowon (digital audio and video products) offers a interesting small touchscreen device for video- and audioplayback. For their player the use a very interesting stylus which is about the same size as a guitar pick. The

Re: Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-08 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Interesting concept, but I can't see an advantage to the standard numeric keypads. Maybe you can enlighten me? :) 2007/9/8, OJW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just playing with another idea for text-entry: http://almien.co.uk/Keypad/ The idea is to be able to type mixed letters / numbers / symbols /

Re: 4 GB SD flash card does not work

2007-09-06 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Georg: It was said, that the SoC *should* support microSDHC-cards, but nobody hat the chance to test it. I don't know about the kernel support for SDHC at all. Ole: The dmesg output on your linux PC would be interesting. 2007/9/5, Georg Michelitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Giles Jones wrote: On

Re: 4 GB SD flash card does not work

2007-09-06 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Good to know :) 2007/9/6, Stefan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello. On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 12:37, Thomas Gstädtner wrote: Georg: It was said, that the SoC *should* support microSDHC-cards, but nobody hat the chance to test it. Outdated informations. :) I have one and tested

Re: Myth Busting FTW

2007-08-31 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Great work - but somehow I don't believe that Daniel will publish a full correction on his page. Nevertheless, this could help to reduce the confusions in future. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: PocketCM Virtual Keyboard - We need it, or something like that... :)

2007-08-28 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Why should we need a freeware (not open source!) win mobile application if we already have the same as open source? http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2007/07/24/iphone-like-virtual-keyboard-for-n800/ 2007/8/27, Bernardo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, well, I don't know if someone has

Re: Convince me NOT to cancel my order.

2007-08-25 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
You all do not understand the concept of a development release - and maybe you never will. Everybody who ordered knew what he would get, everybody had the possibility to check what will work and what will not. Sorry guys, but please just shut up. (P.S. To not casting a damning light on FIC or

Re: Incorrect UPS tracking numbers?

2007-08-10 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
I'd like to congratulate Mike to his brandnew Neo1973 :-P scnr 2007/8/7, Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just got my Your order has shipped! email (yay!), but the UPS tracking number included showed a package signed for by Mike (not my name) in San Ramon, CA, (not where my address is).

Re: Enter runlevel: ???

2007-08-06 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
2007/8/6, Emre Turkay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, I've written both the file downloaded from the buildhost my own moko makefile images to the device by using the dfu-util. It is stopping at some point in boot and asking to enter runlevel. The messages shown on the screen are below. It

New webbrowser - OWB

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Seems that there is again a new competitor in the browser section, called Origyn Web Browser (OWB) It's opensource (BSD/LGPL), developed for embedded devices and based on WebKit. http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5894497943.html Feel free to tell us your experiences. :)

Re: New looker where to start?

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Well, then we have luck that you do not define what open source is :) There's a official definition of open source: http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd Thanks to all guys in the whole open source scene. 2007/8/3, wim delvaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 03 August 2007 17:14:36 Ian Darwin wrote:

Re: Import Duty - I have refused my delivery.

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Well, you chose to live in the wrong country (or the wrong continent). You should know what expects you if YOU IMPORT a device. This is not the fault of OpenMoko (Inc.). Also there is no duty on computing devices and mobile phones in the EU - so I guess you are wrong. GBP60 sounds like VAT (15.5%

Re: Free Linux distro targets smartphones

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
I guess it wont. It doesnt even have drivers for bluetooth yet. Howevern, I'd be interested in a short comment if someone tested it. 2007/8/3, Giles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Krzysztof Kajkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6869195570.html Hmm, anyone

Re: What a heavy lunch-box!

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Even without the launchbox (only have basic) I can agree. In my company we have the launchbox in big, its about 15kg :) 2007/8/3, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Photos are here: http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/openmoko/images/package/ * The packaging was kinda neat. I didn't expect

Re: What a heavy lunch-box!

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
If you want some high res pics (but not that good quality) you can take a look here: http://gstaedtner.net/bilder/neo1973/ Feel free to do with the photos what you want :) 2007/8/3, Sudharshan S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 17:36 +0200, Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi, Photos are

Re: interesting red flag ui

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Yet another poor iPhone-lookalike. *gape* Sorry, but can't see the clones and the original anymore. Concerning your question: rotating the screen is no problem at all since the OM kdrive has xrandr support (xrandr -o 1), but imho the screen is still physically too small to allow writing with your

Re: What a heavy lunch-box!

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Thomas Gstädtner: If you want some high res pics (but not that good quality) you can take a look here: http://gstaedtner.net/bilder/neo1973/ Feel free to do with the photos what you want :) Very cool pictures :D Can you say me which musicplayer is on this picture = http://gstaedtner.net

Info: Neo1973 + T-Mobile Germany + USIM

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Hello guys and girls, since I recieved my Neo yesterday (on my birthday ^^) I was playing around a bit. Today I was able to test the GSM functions. I use some T-Mobile USIMS (at moment 2 tested, both works!), but see: AT+CFUN=1 STR=`AT+CFUN=1' RSTR=`OK' AT+CPIN=mypin STR=`AT+CPIN=mypin'

Re: Shippped!

2007-07-29 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
The same here, should be the same way. 26. picked up, 28. arrived in cologne, 30. arrival at dest. 2007/7/28, Alex Riesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: #2001: shipped to Germany (and according to UPS is awaiting customs clearance)! Seem to have taken only 2 days: 27 left US, 28 july was in Germany,

Re: Group purchase/shipping generally

2007-07-13 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
hands (guess I am definately under the first 500), Thomas Gstädtner P.S. I wish you, OpenMoko and FIC much luck and hope the Neo will get as popular as I guess. Thanks for giving the linux community and me what we want for years! 2007/7/10, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jul 4, 2007

Re: Binary tarball of toolchain/build environment

2007-07-13 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
A tarball would be really great, because I have several problems on my amd64-gentoo, too. Starting at gcc3 (gentoo uses gcc4 per default and switching to 3 sucks) to several amd64 problems. 2007/7/13, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, On 7/13/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As

Re: Shop is open :)

2007-07-08 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
He Peter, please contact me concerning the group purchase :) What a pitty that there are no shipping costs in the shop :( 2007/7/8, Peter Trapp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Shop is open :) cheers -homyx ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: community Digest, Vol 34, Issue 17

2007-07-04 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
I'd also be interested in some 3d-scans of the Neo's cover, because I want a stainless-steel cover :) There are a lot of people with the equippment to build covers, but less with 3d scanners. 2007/7/3, Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 9:50, Michael Sersen wrote: About custom

Group purchase/shipping generally

2007-07-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Hello, before some days Hans van der Merwe asked, if it is possible to do group purchases (in South Africa). Unfortunately he got no answer, so I'd like to ask again. I'm from germany and I think there are many people here who like to buy a GTA01 device. If everyone orders a single device it are

Re: [France] Grouping orders,

2007-07-03 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
2007/7/3, cedric cellier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -[ Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:44:10PM +0200, Foucault de Bonneval ] If yes, does some of you living in Paris would like to share the shipping cost ? Yes Monsieur ! ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: New Oceans

2007-07-02 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
I calculated the costs for germany. Think the shipping will be at about USD 20. ($300+$20)/1.34*1.19 = € 285 1.34 is relation dollar-euro, 1.19 the 19% Import-VAT in germany. Mobile phones do not have taxes in the EU. 2007/7/2, Attila Csipa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Starting July 9th, we will

Re: Screen size vs. resolution

2007-07-02 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
You won't see the resolution of the display in OpenMoko apps, because they are optimized - so you will only see the fantastic quality here. In unoptimized software you will see how small all is, but this won't make the screen bigger. ;) Of course the DS can have a bigger screen, because it's a

Re: New Oceans

2007-07-02 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
. Am 02.07.2007 um 09:16 schrieb Thomas Gstädtner: I calculated the costs for germany. Think the shipping will be at about USD 20. ($300+$20)/1.34*1.19 = € 285 1.34 is relation dollar-euro, 1.19 the 19% Import-VAT in germany. Mobile phones do not have taxes in the EU. 2007/7/2, Attila Csipa

Re: Stylus, the iPhone, and multi touch screens

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Imho the system with pen- and hand-based applications is the most useful one. I own a TomTom 5xx-Series, I used TomTom on my Nokia 7710 (only-touchscreen-phone) and I know that it is easy to use without a stylus. TomTom has a good interface, but the sort of software (navigation) needs relatively

Re: rough seas

2007-06-27 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Looking forward to hearing from you. ;) 2007/6/27, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 09:15 +0200, Tomasz Zielinski wrote: 2007/6/20, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In less than a week, we will update you about what's going on at FIC/ OpenMoko, the status of

Re: rough seas

2007-06-22 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Why shouldn't it? OpenMoko is based on and contains several standard-opensource-software which can be built for several architectures. It's not WinMobile which only runs on arm :) 2007/6/22, Luit van Drongelen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OpenMoko can be built to run on regular i386 hardware (quote from

Re: New wishlist item: Side-mounted touch strip sensor

2007-06-19 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
That's exactly what I already was talking about in the dasher-thread, because this touchpad would be a cool device to control different things, especially for dasher text-input in 1D-mode (or 2D). Glad that you found a matching device. Imho it shouldn't be a problem for left-handed people, too.

Re: New wishlist item: Side-mounted touch strip sensor

2007-06-19 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Yes, a kind of double rocker-push-button (is there a correct english word? ^^) would be fine, too. Not two buttons, but one button with 2 contacts (one on each side) and a neutral position in mid. Here's a picture I found via google, to imagine what I mean:

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

2007-06-15 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Some (pretty good) news: http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2007/06/15/#20070615-gta01-factory-trip 2007/6/15, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 14 June 2007 23:45:29 Jonathon Suggs wrote: Well as far as we know (no *official* word) the models (GTA-01) that you have actually

Re: cellphone-sized X86 PC motherboard potential OpenMoko platform?

2007-06-10 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
That would explain why Intel sold XScale :) IHMO there is a direct relation between the instruction set and the power consumption: The more complex a processor is the more power it needs. Let's explain it the easy (and not fully correct) way: When you want to see the complexity of a

Re: Yet another contender in the market?

2007-06-08 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
can at least acknowledge the competition and work to improve what we can. --Tim On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:18, Thomas Gstädtner wrote: There already was Samsung phones with HSDPA support which was slower than normal UMTS phones of other manufacturers. Also flash lite might be good looking

Re: [SVHMPC] concept phone with only a touchscreen for UI

2007-06-05 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
You are right, and that was before some years. They used this concept in the whole P-Series except the newest one (P990i) afaik. 2007/6/5, kenneth marken [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bradley Hook wrote: A possible solution for this has been discussed under an accessibility thread. The Maestro is a

Re: New HTC Touch

2007-06-05 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Ok, I do not know the cheap HTC's. The one I have and need for work uses a big and mighty XScale :) Well - the 612 MHz doesn't make the dialing software of WM5 in 640x480 faster. Really unusable. 2007/6/5, Oleg Gusev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 18:17 schrieb Fabien: As a

Re: Voice/Command recongnition

2007-06-04 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Google and the keywords linux voice recognition are your friends. (e.g. XVoice, ViaVoice, CMU Sphinx, cvoicecontrol, ...) 2007/6/4, wim delvaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Do any of you know packages that would allow vocal command recognition much like voice dialling on some cell phones ? This

Re: Neo1973 Update!

2007-06-04 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Wow, that all sounds really awsome! But there's one thing I don't understand: I expected the Phase 2 Hardware to be the same as in Phase 1+. So does this new informations mean P1+ will get this fantastic hardware upgrade, too or is it just for P2 which will be different to P1+ then? The Neo seems

Re: information efficient text enty using dasher

2007-05-31 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Thank you for this post chris, nice to know, that dasher was running on a so old and slow device already. I'm see the things like you do: Touchscreen means you always have to stare at the device for making inputs. Like I said - I had a nokia 7710 before and it was nearby impossible to use it

Re: Fwd: tomtom on the Neo1973

2007-05-30 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Well, OpenMoko still is mainly a phone platform, not a gps platform. ;) The Neo will me sold als phone with the option to install software, not because of its GPS chip. There will be much free software which will make the Neo a great smartphone (hopefully ^^). TomTom ported its software to

Re: information efficient text enty using dasher

2007-05-30 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Finger Splash looks very cool and useful. Imho a cool idea. @[EMAIL PROTECTED]: You are right, abcde... keyboards can be used for blind typing. But not on a only-touchscreen-phone. I used a Nokia 7710 for about 1.5 years and typing blind was simply impossible. Theres no feedback at all.

Fwd: tomtom on the Neo1973

2007-05-29 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Well, this answer is not too bad and maybe better than expected. will keep an eye on it could mean, that TomTom will wait and see how the first OpenMoko Phones (Neo1973 Phase 2) sell. If the sales are ok, maybe they release their software for OpenMoko.

Re: information efficient text enty using dasher

2007-05-29 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Imho it would be fantastic to have 2 navkeys at the right side of the phone to use dasher in the 1D-mode. So it could be possible to write texts using the right thumb what means typing with only one hand would be possible. A touchpad like seen on devices like the Cowon iAudio 6 or the Creative

GPS Navigation Software (roadster)

2007-05-25 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Hello, several times there was the question about (free) navigation software for OpenMoko. I found an possible alternative to gpsdrive: roadster [1] It seems that it is in a relatively early stage and I couldn't test it, but it looks nice. I also don't know what kind of maps can be used.

Re: Iphone eat your heart out.

2007-05-17 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
This new 8GB microSD is SDHC Class4 Compliant. According to the wiki the Neo supports SDHC. Maybe a owner of a p0 device could check this with a smaller (but available :) ) SDHC microsSD. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: First impressions of Neo1973

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
The same for me. Especially I'm interessted in the speed, the phone functions (address book, dialer, history, ...) and the voice quality. 2007/5/14, mathew davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would be interested to know what you thought were strong suits of the phone. Programs you liked, and other

Re: firefox for mobiles

2007-05-11 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
As announced this is a long term project, so there will be no firefox mobile in 2007 and maybe not in 2008. Firefox doesnt only use a massive amount of RAM, it also needs a powerful CPU. Imho a browser based on KHTML/WebKit, especially S60WebKit would be the best choise. Whoever has used one of

Re: Size and weight considerations for future Openmoko devices

2007-05-02 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Please consider dpi comparison in which Neo is unbeatable winner. The display of the Neo is definitely great, but I agree with Sven, the device is a bit too big. Especially it is too thick. I think the iPhone can only be so thin because the battery is built-in.