Re: Languages (Was: Re: ASU software - pre-pre-release impressions)

2008-05-20 Thread Tim Shannon
The app icon idea should be optional, I know I personally have a tendency to remember locations of icons. If the icon list is updated constantly with the most accessed programs, then I might inadvertently select one program thinking another should really be in that location. I think this is more

Re: Will GTK be used in Openmoko? (was: Re: Software Status Update)

2008-05-15 Thread Tim Shannon
Hm, this is all new to me. Has anyone tried grabbing the qtopia keyboard and using it with openmoko? If the libraries are all there, it shouldn't be a problem right? On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:05 AM, David Samblas Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry me if this has been said in other post,

Re: Shipping Specs for Freerunner (Was: Group Sales: U.S. Midwest area)

2008-05-01 Thread Tim Shannon
Or you could just drive to pick up your freerunner, and spend around $300 in gas. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Kevin Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that certain groups in the USA are consolidating for 10-pack purchases. Unfortunately, some of the regions being covered are bigger

Re: youtube freerunner vid is up

2008-04-30 Thread Tim Shannon
yeah, it's too bad that you couldn't see the screen though, and the software was incomplete. I have yet to see a vid that shows a performance difference between the 1973 and the Freerunner. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:23 AM, NeoSleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for the demo helping us

Re: youtube freerunner vid is up

2008-04-30 Thread Tim Shannon
So, why did these guys get early copies of a freerunner to review, when they even admitted to not doing this before, and didn't seem to do any research on the product they are reviewing? On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Ryan Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She says it's going to be thinner and

Re: youtube freerunner vid is up

2008-04-30 Thread Tim Shannon
My mistake. I watched the video at work :) with no sound, so I just assumed with a name of BVBTechReviews, that it was a (semi) legitimate Tech Review Blog. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Federico Lorenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Tim Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mobile gps gaming

2008-04-30 Thread Tim Shannon
I could definitely picture a simple MMO. A game world of locations, and when you get close to a location in the real world, a minigame pops up on your phone that you need to complete for +100 exp, or whatever. You could have a leader board to see who's explored more of the world. I know I'd

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

2008-04-28 Thread Tim Shannon
But isn't it still limited by the bandwidth available from the micro SD card? Maybe I misunderstood that. Basically what I'm curious about is if in the future someone does take the time to figure out and write the appropriate driver for the glamo chip, will we be able to watch movies on the free

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

2008-04-28 Thread Tim Shannon
at 10:31 AM, Mikko Rauhala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On ma, 2008-04-28 at 09:26 -0500, Tim Shannon wrote: But isn't it still limited by the bandwidth available from the micro SD card? Maybe I misunderstood that. Yes it is. It's just that sending mpeg4 packets to the glamo takes just a _tiny_

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

2008-04-24 Thread Tim Shannon
I think the highest priority in general should be getting the proper drivers written for the GPU on the Freerunner, it seems like such a waste to have it, and not be able to use it. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Mikko Rauhala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to, 2008-04-24 kello 19:20 +0800, Carsten

Re: (no subject)

2008-04-23 Thread Tim Shannon
Oh come on! You're just disagreeing because you have no idea what we're talking about. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Peter Abplanalp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/23/08, Denis Shulyaka [EMAIL

Re: which applications are usable

2008-04-18 Thread Tim Shannon
I love that the terminal is one of the requisite applications. This is definitely a phone I'm looking forward to. On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:41 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll update in a bit, but for launch we put the focus on basic applicatons for developers to get started. Dialer,

Re: PVT Update.

2008-04-15 Thread Tim Shannon
Yeah, I'm up for any new content, especially on the freerunner. Everything I've seen online is of the 1973, and I'd like to see what kind of performance difference there is. On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Matt Manjos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling it a snuff video is a little disturbing,

Re: Nano on Openmoko

2008-04-15 Thread Tim Shannon
Kind of off topic, but is there a slick GUI for opkg yet? Terminal typing on the go with a stylus seems like it might get pretty tedious. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Brandon Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon April 14 2008 6:01:10 pm Kevin Dean wrote: Nano is available in the

Re: Battery time?

2008-04-14 Thread Tim Shannon
I think that has been one of the top unanswered questions on many peoples minds. I don't think we've gotten a solid answer yet, but I'm sure it will come in time. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Tomas Gustavsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the Openmoko wiki I have found some info about the

Re: What should be included in packaging (was: Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update)

2008-04-14 Thread Tim Shannon
That's a good idea, but for the most part that approved stamp can be fulfilled through the wiki. I'm sure there is already list of compatible hardware / devices that work with the NEO. I suggest you add your iGo charger to that list. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Kevin Dean [EMAIL

Re: Battery time?

2008-04-14 Thread Tim Shannon
totals: Total Talk Time Total Standby Time Total Wifi Time On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Shannon wrote: I think that has been one of the top unanswered questions on many peoples minds. I don't think we've gotten a solid answer yet

Re: accelerometer thought

2008-04-11 Thread Tim Shannon
Sounds like a good idea, except for people who carry their phone in a bag, but definitely useful as an option nonetheless. On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good idea as long as it's easy to turn it off. On 4/11/08, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL

Re: Web Browser?

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Shannon
I would think it would be as simple as having a toggle button that toggles from touching the screen to scroll around (up, down, left, right), and interacting with a webpage. If your in interaction mode, then have the tiny scroll bars, else leave them off. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Tilman

Re: Web Browser?

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Shannon
Yeah, you're probably right, but either way there has to be a better solution that what is currently implemented. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:29 PM, enaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Shannon schrieb: I would think it would be as simple as having a toggle button that toggles from touching

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Tim Shannon
Does tangogps submit data to OSM as well, because that would be great. I'd imaging that the quality of data in OSM would greatly increase after the Freerunner gets released. 2008/3/27 Joseph Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Navigation and OSM data submittal? What's wrong with tangogps? Sounds like

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Tim Shannon
Does anyone know how m 2008/3/27 Marcin Juszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, ramsesoriginal napisał: I am of the idea that a navigation system would be THE killer-app for the openmoko, and I personally know many persons that would also pay extra money to have

Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Shannon
Wow, this one trolls rant has been taken way too far. Half the emails in my box have the subject of FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!?? On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Kevin Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Lally Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup,

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Shannon
Oh wow, I've been paying a little bit of attention to those exchange rates, but I hadn't realized it's gotten that bad. On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner published? Date: mer 19 mar 08 05:51:01 +0100

Re: Further details of theprocess as we ramp up production of Freerunner

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Shannon
Yeah, the thought of seeing hundreds of Freerunners being thrown away at the expense of the manufacturing process makes me cry a little. On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Further details of theprocess as we ramp up production of

Re: Mono development in openmoko

2008-02-01 Thread Tim Shannon
I'm a .net developer professionally, so I prefer to develop in Mono as a hoby. But why do you say Mono hates freedom? I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that mono is an ECMA open standard, and all of the compilers and tools are all open source. Microsoft's compilers and tools of

Re: GTA01 Modified Handset

2008-01-30 Thread Tim Shannon
That's great. I really hope those handsets are available at the same time as the 900 band phones. On Jan 28, 2008 8:03 PM, Christopher Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok everone, I got the Handset today and GSM 850 WORKS! Audio sounds good and Test call was a success. I will be sending the

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread Tim Shannon
I'm all for companies trying to sue based on broad patents like this. The more broad and ridiculous they are, the better. Maybe people will start opening their eyes to all of the troubles in our current patent system. On Jan 25, 2008 1:00 PM, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I

Re: Community update: GSM firmware, 850MHz experiment, GTA02 progress

2007-12-10 Thread Tim Shannon
I'm curious, since these 850 variants are most likely going to be an option, when can we expect them? Are they going to be available at the same time as the public offering of the GTA02, or are they going to be available way after that? On Dec 9, 2007 6:01 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need someone to develop this....

2007-12-03 Thread Tim Shannon
Oh yeah, you could totally do it in morse code, which would be faster then if you actually sent bits represented by vibrations. On Dec 3, 2007 11:51 AM, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 1, 2007 4:35 AM, Nkoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 30, 2007 3:34 PM, Michael Shiloh

Re: need someone to develop this....

2007-11-29 Thread Tim Shannon
Personally, I'd like to see it blink on and off, and scream when you shook, then I could show my friends my possessed linux phone. On Nov 29, 2007 1:15 PM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: feedback for controlling a live music sequencer while on stage in front of 10's of thousands of

Re: GPS driver for GTA01 available

2007-11-29 Thread Tim Shannon
This phone is going to be so great for geoCaching. On Nov 29, 2007 2:25 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thanks to a tremendous amount of hard work by many people, we have ready a release of gllin, the GPS drives. Here is how you can get it: 1. Visit

Re: Sean's impact being felt...

2007-11-28 Thread Tim Shannon
Yeah, I would take this more as marketing jargon then actual practice. I'm sure they just made this announcement to make sure they don't get swept away the Google hype machine. On Nov 28, 2007 11:27 AM, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Worth mentioning in this context is that all

Email App

2007-11-20 Thread Tim Shannon
I'm curious if anyone knows that status of an Email app. I though originally there was going to be one app that handled all communication, SMS, internet chat, email, etc, but I haven't seen anything like this with the new 2007.2 framework. Is anyone working on this, or what will the status of

Re: Community update: The 850 MHz issue

2007-11-06 Thread Tim Shannon
Just curious, I don't know much about the hardware in question, but is it just a firmware issue, or does the hardware have to physically change to move between the 900 or the 850 frequency? ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Google's Android open phone stack announced

2007-11-05 Thread Tim Shannon
In an ideal world, this would be only good for open moko. More open source apps for mobile phones. Hopefully interoperability between the two platforms will fall into place. On 11/5/07, Mark Arvidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: 3G status within the US?

2007-10-08 Thread Tim Shannon
So the consensus is that the Neo won't work in the US if you just go an get a new account with ATT or T-Mobile? On 10/8/07, Brad Midgley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian We've heard bits and pieces on this. I believe where it stands is people are investigating and the GSM module likely needs a

Re: 3G status within the US?

2007-10-08 Thread Tim Shannon
How new is your account? On 10/8/07, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Shannon writes: So the consensus is that the Neo won't work in the US if you just go an get a new account with ATT or T-Mobile? Mine works with a T-Mobile SIM (non 3G

Re: UI responsiveness, Hope its not like new Blackberry

2007-10-03 Thread Tim Shannon
If you look at some of the videos online ( http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=openmokonum=10so=1start=0), you'll see that the UI is getting more responsive than it was. It looks to me (as a fan, not as a developer) that the UI responsiveness has greatly improved with the 2007.2 updates. With

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Tim Shannon
I don't know about that rest of you guys, but with this email title, I assumed this was spam. On 10/1/07, Sven Klomp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anyone know, how power consuming the build-in vibrator of the neo is? Today, I held the Motorola Razr 2 (V8) in my hands and I'm very

Re: WiFi vs. speaker

2007-08-24 Thread Tim Shannon
I don't know about you guys, but personally I'd rather have the electromagnetic radiation traveling under my chin, then through my brain, but maybe brain cancer doesn't scare you as much. On 8/24/07, Eric Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giles Jones wrote: GSM antenna is at bottom of phone,

Re: WiFi vs. speaker

2007-08-24 Thread Tim Shannon
It was actually a joke. If cell frequencies caused cancer, everyone would be dead by now, because there are a lot worse stuff floating in the air. On 8/24/07, AVee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 August 2007 15:18, Tim Shannon wrote: I don't know about you guys, but personally I'd

Re: At the risk of being flamed : State of software

2007-08-24 Thread Tim Shannon
They aren't reinventing the wheel, it's GTK. And as far as GPL not being important, I think you miss the point of the entire project. Open source isn't just about free software, it's about a free community. On 8/24/07, wim delvaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI all, Champion of open source and

Re: ssh to a phone ... thats awesome !!

2007-07-27 Thread Tim Shannon
We need video, or it didn't happing. Just kidding, though seriously, I want to see more video online of the NEO1973 and open moko in action. On 7/27/07, Pranav Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I just got my Neo. Upgraded the kernel and rootfs and shortly I was ssh'ing in to a phone

Charging the NEO1973

2007-07-12 Thread Tim Shannon
According to the wiki, charging the battery is always done through the USB socket. Does that mean that the NEO is only chargable from a computer, or is there a USB cord that plugs into a wall socket included. I don't know about everyone else, but I want want to bring my NEO to places where I

Re: Fake Steve Rags on OpenMoko!

2007-07-02 Thread Tim Shannon
Freetards. That's great. Now I want a shirt that says I'm a Freetard on the back. On 7/1/07, David Lefty Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't recall having seen a mention of this on the list previously, but Fake Steve Jobs has taken notice of the FIC1973...

Open Moko Themes

2007-06-11 Thread Tim Shannon
I know that there are going to be themes for the OpenMoko interface, but I'm just wondering if there is anyone who has started working on alternate themes? I think I'd like to take a crack at it, and I was curious if anyone has had any start yet. ___

Re: Mono runtime port

2007-06-08 Thread Tim Shannon
All I've seen so far is this registered project. I too am very interested in getting Mono Up and running, as I am a .NET developer. I seriously doubt we'll see very good performance on the first generation Neo Hardware, but the next generation sounds very promising.

Re: UI ideas/questions or can we animate things as smooth as iPhone?

2007-06-06 Thread Tim Shannon
As I understand it the new GTK mobile initiative will really be focusing on performance on mobiles. I don't think the software is there yet, or the all of the hard ware. Personally I'm not too concerned with the speed of the GUI... yet. That and it sounds like the next hardware revision will

Re: Crossroads

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Shannon
I don't know about you guys, but even if I couldn't get a compatible plan, I'd probably buy the device anyway. A gorgeous, open Linux device backed by a community like this one? I think it's definitely worth the $350. On 3/14/07, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at

Re: Screen size

2007-03-12 Thread Tim Shannon
It looks to me like the Neo's screen resolution is higher even though it's a small screen. Screen 3.5 320x480 at 160 ppi, multi-touch 2.8 480x640 at 285 ppi, maybe multi-touch laterhttp://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-December/000576.htmlNEO specs on the right. As I understand