Re: Fundraising for GTA04A5 has started!

2013-11-22 Thread thomasg
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Am 22.11.2013 um 17:21 schrieb Lukas Märdian: Am 22.11.2013 23:23, schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Am 22.11.2013 um 15:46 schrieb Pascal Gosselin: What about GPS specifications ? My company would have

Re: GTA04A5 ready to be pre-ordered

2013-11-13 Thread thomasg
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Am 08.11.2013 um 23:08 schrieb Michael Parchet: Hello, Sorry I found only GTA04A4 but not GTA04A5 with LTE for pre order and price. Why If you look at the date (22 janvier 2013), a long time has

Re: Interview of Jussi Hurmola, Jolla Mobile’s managing director - with a comment on Open Moko

2013-05-21 Thread thomasg
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Yury Sakarinen z...@onego.ru wrote: Jolla news: At the core of Jolla is Sailfish, a mobile-optimized OS that has the flexibility of a unique, open platform. One should mention, that open platform is a contrast to open source platform. For example, Apple Mac OS

Re: UMTS frequencies on GTA04

2013-03-31 Thread thomasg
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Re: ArchARM and FedoraARM ?

2012-03-08 Thread thomasg
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 17:17, elf Pavlik perpetual-trip...@wwelves.org wrote: Hello, On Raspberry Pi website i've noticed announcements of ArchLinux ARM and FedoraARM: http://archlinuxarm.org/ http://fedora-arm.blogspot.com/2009/11/fedora-arm-12-is-available.html Would they work on GTA02?

Re: Removing devel@ or staying on-topic

2008-10-27 Thread thomasg
I definitley think the devel list should stay. Yeah, especially in the last days/weeks the usage has decreased heavily, but it guess that's really a problem of distinction on the community lists side. It would be sad if devel was removed, because I just do not have the time to manually sort out

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-14 Thread thomasg
Really great work! But I don't think a service depending on a running xserver should be an init script (even if the script can require the X init script to be ready). Imho it would be better to use the X infrastructure for that, maybe by an Xsession file. On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:43 PM,

Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread thomasg
results show at the same devices, even outdoor, that there is no fix in over 400 seconds with SD card, the signal seems to be at least 10 to 20 dB worse (so bad, that most satellites don't even appear). Testresults from other people appreciated. thomasg

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread thomasg
We are not sure about this, but it might be, that theres a voltage leaking on the EMC-shield behind the microSD - also just a guess, it might be the contacts of the SD-reader that are pretty hard and need a lot of pressure. But I think only the engineers can make that sure, and it's at least

Re: Replacing ASU/Qtopia keyboard with matchbox keyboard?

2008-07-15 Thread thomasg
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the matchbox keyboard on my ASU installation, and I love it. matchbox-keyboard-im - 0.0+svnr1910-r10 - matchbox-keyboard-inputmethod - 0.0+svnr1910-r10 - qtopia-phone-x11-libinputmatch -

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread thomasg
or less :o) On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:42 +0200, thomasg wrote: Hi ppl, I write this to community, not to devel or owners because everyone should know: sbeh, one of the people in #neo1973-germany IRC-channel found the reason for the GPS problems. The problem only occurs if a SD card

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread thomasg
On the 1973?! None of us can confirm this, our 1973 are mostly ok, only the Freerunners make problems. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grr .. confirmed here too on my neo1973 .. without SD card, GPS fix happens in 30 seconds, with SD card .. well, its not

Re: MokSec - The Security Framework

2008-07-14 Thread thomasg
On 7/14/08, Kalle Happonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've only had my freerunner for a week or so, so I'm not too into the security aspects yet. One thing I did notice was of course passwordless root login. Now over usb this can be acceptable, but if this is possible over wifi (I

Re: GPS

2008-07-14 Thread thomasg
On 7/14/08, Timo Jyrinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/13 BlueStar88 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Feeding assist data to compensate bad hardware based reception is no real solution, since there are some FRs, which seem not to have any problems to get a fast fix at all. My personal current

Re: GPS

2008-07-14 Thread thomasg
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Kalle Kärkkäinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my past life I developed a fleet management device that had GPS and GSM in it, able to send the fix data to server in intervals. we even implemented some location alerts (around the vicinity of, or near

Re: MokSec - The Security Framework

2008-07-14 Thread thomasg
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Kalle Happonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What an insult! *slap* :P. No I'm not a windows user. and I can set the root password on my device, but defaults matter. And they matter a lot if openmoko will become more mass-market. A firewall migth be a bit heavy, I

Re: MokSec - The Security Framework

2008-07-14 Thread thomasg
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:08 PM, arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to give my 2 Eurocents to the everything as root discusion. Running user apps as root must end, better soon. what exactly speaks against creating a regular user? did anyone try it already? and where exactly is root as

Re: MokSec - The Security Framework

2008-07-14 Thread thomasg
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Kalle Happonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thomasg wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:22 PM, arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course you can create another user, as you are used to on any unix system

Re: GPS

2008-07-14 Thread thomasg
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The module talks NMEA but also a ublox binary format. Among other things this allows time and location estimates, ephemeris and almanac data to be fed to the module to give it an initial state, and should reduce time

Re: GPS

2008-07-14 Thread thomasg
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Ken Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thomasg wrote: This all are no arguments. With my TomTom device I can do a full reset so that no GPS data is available at all (also no time and so on) and still get a fix in 3 minutes at 100 km/h. Well, I know

Re: GPS

2008-07-14 Thread thomasg
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:42 PM, arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we just need to wrap 'save' and 'restore' scripts around the gpsd script? Basically yes, but this won't fix the problem. It's for later when the what exactly is the gpsd for, anyway? looking at my fr yesterday i

Re: NVidia S-O-C

2008-07-14 Thread thomasg
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Francesco Cat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this System on a Chip by NVidia: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra_600.html and http://www.nvidia.com/object/apx_2500.html It is something A-M-A-Z-I-N-G and I say I would love to see it on a GTA04 ;) What do

Re: T-Mobile with ASU on GTA01?

2008-07-09 Thread thomasg
ASU works basically, but getting telephony work with it is a matter of luck. Mostly it doesn't work at all, mostly the qtopia phoneserver eats 90% CPU.. On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:05 AM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No ASU is a pre alpha set of applications. -Original Message-

Re: T-Mobile with ASU on GTA01?

2008-07-09 Thread thomasg
You surely are right in some points, you might even be right with the broken modem (still trying to figure that out), but I strongly disagree with you in the most other points (off topic, but I'll reply anyway). On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may have one

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread thomasg
I also did some testing with all the pieces of hardware the freerunner has. The GPS is very disappointing. I could get a fix in about 2 minutes with my Neo1973 with a cold start. This works inside my car (maybe a bit slower), at my room's window (bit slower), and everywhere outside. I still

Re: Group Sale Vancouver, BC

2008-07-06 Thread thomasg
Will they get the laser-keyboard, beamer and micro-nuclear-device included? *SCNR* On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:41 AM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks in Canada should take a look at buying from Koolu. They are on our website as a distributor. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: audio/video support

2008-07-04 Thread thomasg
I did some basic testing with video and mp3: Both works, mp3 without any problem, video the resolution/quality fits. The Freerunner plays [EMAIL PROTECTED] fps at a reasonable bitrate. No difference between internal flash and the microSD. The problem is, that this only works without scaling. If

Re: audio/video support

2008-07-04 Thread thomasg
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:06 PM, thomasg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did some basic testing with video and mp3: Both works, mp3 without any problem, video the resolution/quality fits. The Freerunner plays [EMAIL PROTECTED] fps at a reasonable bitrate. No difference between internal flash

Re: USB UMTS Stick

2008-07-04 Thread thomasg
At least for desktop PCs it's no problem at all. I don't know if the usb host can provide enough power, but with a powered hub it should work. On the user side it's no difference to the internal modem of the neos. On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Ingmar RIeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,

Re: 21h of battery live with FSO on GTA01

2008-07-03 Thread thomasg
I still wonder what's so new about this? Standby had some bugs (especially when waking up after doing suspend without reboot multiple times), but I'm sure that even in 2007 my GTA01 did over 20h in standby (only). On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: FR with embedded projector and LASER keyboard

2008-06-26 Thread thomasg
No matter how respected maddog is - Koolu distributed enough false information, so I'd not give anything about that. Let's see when they bring their Neo with Android (probably based on Hurd), google apps, built in laser-keyboard (a magical one without using optics), a projector, Duke Nukem

Re: When it will be possible to buy OpenMoko?

2008-06-15 Thread thomasg
I'm pretty sure that OM grants the resellers a rebate that's a 2 digit percentage over the 10-pack rebate. So let's see what the resellers can do. On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Michele Renda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a OMmer but I can help you because I studied a bit the cost to

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

2008-06-13 Thread thomasg
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Mike Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the battery issue is due to one main concept, the difference between air interfaces: Time Division Duplex, or Code Division Duplex. GSM/TDMA uses timeslots, vs CDMA/UMTS using a special code to spread its

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

2008-06-11 Thread thomasg
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard Nokia needs a reboot to switch, and eats battery as if there's no tomorrow on 3G ;-) /j That's (partly) true. Nokias Symbian S60 and their S40 phones need to reboot - but that's only a software problem and I

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

2008-06-11 Thread thomasg
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well entry level ADSL here in belgium are 250 Kbits. Also UMTS claimed 2Mbits are never acchieved except perhaps in densly populated area I don't think you really tested UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA, or at least not with proper hardware or with

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

2008-06-10 Thread thomasg
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact 2G/Edge is really fast (more like standard ADSL speeds over here in Europe). You're kidding, right? EDGE maxes out at about 470 kbps - if you get a full channel (8 timeslots) for yourself. In most GSM networks one of the

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-08 Thread thomasg
Glamo _will_ be out in GTA03. Unfortunately the slow arm9 will stay. Better then with glamo it seems, but not perfect. On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Rahul Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The root of all evil it seems is glamo. Why not remove the damn thing and put in a new VGA hw which

Re: Illume / ASU on GTA01 - Video

2008-06-06 Thread thomasg
: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:35:23 +0200 Pietro \m0nt0\ Montorfano [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: thomasg ha scritto: Hi list, there are still many people who don't know about ASU, and about the change in the Openmoko distribution - and there are not many videos, too. So I

Re: GTA03 case should incorporate stylus holder

2008-06-06 Thread thomasg
I still think that the Cowon iAudio D2 has the best solution: guitar-pick-like stylus, attached by a short cord at a loop in the housing. On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Andy Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 June 2008 00:34, Feydreva wrote: a stylus is a another thing to loose...

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-06 Thread thomasg
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:18 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: note - qvga really does look blocky on the 2.8 vga It's looking blocky starting at 2... Take a look at the newer Nokia phones (E- and N-Series), and you'll even notice it on _pictures_ of their

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread thomasg
Samsung also seems to have no more ((partially) useful) docs about the s3c series online. Why not switch to freescale, and get solid arm11 SoCs with more power then even the samsung pedants and million times used in smartphones of all vendors? They even have hundreds of sites in documents freely

Illume / ASU on GTA01 - Video

2008-06-04 Thread thomasg
Hi list, there are still many people who don't know about ASU, and about the change in the Openmoko distribution - and there are not many videos, too. So I decided to do a small video to show what it looks like, what it behaves like and some of the next-generation apps. I took my Neo (still

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-03 Thread thomasg
- that beggars the imagination. - Rob Rahul Joshi wrote: +1 Just the kind of thing I want to hear. On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Robert Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. thomasg schrieb: And for those who think android will bring

Re: new iphone

2008-06-02 Thread thomasg
There's a nice german saying for that (also a film title): Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier... On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Christian Benke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening! So who of you is thinking about buying the new iphone instead of an openmoko in case the technical specs

Re: 2.5mm or 3.5mm

2008-05-30 Thread thomasg
I still think that wired headsets are not used by anyone out there. Even if every vendor adds a cheap wired headset to it's device I barely see anyone using it. Today bluetooth headsets are cheap and they are way more practical (and even have the better microphone placing, compared to the wired

Re: multi-tutch?

2008-05-28 Thread thomasg
The capacitive touchscreen of the Freerunner only detects a single point and it will not be possible to change that. So no, the Freerunner is not multitouch ready and will most likely never be. On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Jan Stöckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey given pro-linux.de (german

Re: multi-tutch?

2008-05-28 Thread thomasg
Oops, of course it has. Just messed up the terms. Thanks for the correction. On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mi 28. Mai 2008 schrieb thomasg: The capacitive touchscreen of the Freerunner only detects a single point and FR has a resistive TS

Re: My Openmoko blog is aimed at helping Freerunner users getstarted

2008-05-22 Thread thomasg
Supporting proprietary apps and non-standard non-public-documented protocols should be imho on the far bottom of the todo. So do we need outlook-support out of the box? Definitely not. What we need is SyncML support for the PIM apps/daemon (and I'm pretty sure that abraxa will be doing fine work

Re: microSD support

2008-05-09 Thread thomasg
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Travis Tabbal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think he's asking if the phone will support SDHC, which is required for larger cards and many older devices do not support. Or perhaps if 8GB in particular has been tested. It would be nice to know exactly what is

Re: ARMv4 rating

2008-04-27 Thread thomasg
You all don't seem to get what Openmoko is. Openmoko is based on and built with OpenEmbedded, a buildsystem for embedded devices, source-based and strongly inspired by gentoo's portage. If Openmoko is vor armv4, armv5 or so on only depends on the settings for the image in bitbake. And yes, armv4

Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics

2008-04-24 Thread thomasg
slow or stop completely. On 4/24/08, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:24:26 +0200 polz [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Thursday 24 April 2008 05:52:52 Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:28:40 +0200 thomasg [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled

Re: Battery 2300mAh

2008-04-24 Thread thomasg
Well, it would be possible. But the 2300 mAh mentioned there will be about 800 mAh in reality I guess... On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:33 PM, simarillion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, would it be possible to use or even charge this battery which is identical in construction to the Nokia

Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics

2008-04-23 Thread thomasg
I guess the problem is, that the samsung s3c doesn't have enough interfaces for all the hardware freerunner has. So the Glamo ended up on the SDIO-port (used for the SD-slot in gta01), and the SD-slot is no connected to the glamos own SD-interface. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:20 PM, christopher

Re: Progress on GTA01 power management issues !

2008-04-21 Thread thomasg
It is always funny to see how the bad marketing works. Still many people out there haven't noticed, that the iPhone doesn't cost 399$. In fact it cost's 399$ + 24 monthly fees hidden behind some included minutes and so on. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Fredrik Markström [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Steve on V5 versus v6

2008-04-20 Thread thomasg
We're all going to die!!! On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Dylan Semler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:21 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as the goodies in the box go. Whether it's an A5 or a A6, the box will the following at least. I'm still sorting

Re: Steve on V5 versus v6

2008-04-19 Thread thomasg
Give us some information 'bout the power glitches and I'll be happy. Stayin' tuned - thomasg thx. On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:21 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First some clarification. I have a totally different understanding of the LED situation. So let me check with folks before

Re: Terminology

2008-04-19 Thread thomasg
Matches what I expected, not worse than other mobiles out there - sounds good. Stayin' tuned - thomasg On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beautifully put. Mickey, I'm putting this in the quickstart guide, clearly labeled expected and not yet verified

Re: Our new Main page of wiki

2008-04-18 Thread thomasg
Bastian thomasg schrieb: | Imho they are too big. So I tell my browser to make it smaller. You should do the same :) | | On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Bastian Muck [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I like the design and I thing, that the content is much better presented

Re: 5 hours of standby = STP SHIP levl problem

2008-04-18 Thread thomasg
To confirm this: My neo can do over 20h standby without a problem. Suspend doesn't work well, but mostly it works. I expect GTA02 to be over 60h standby, but let's see what the future brings. On 4/18/08, Tim Niemeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, * Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-18 Thread thomasg
We all? At least not me. There are a bunch of wired headsets, headphones, I never used one of it. I also haven't ever seen somebody walking around with a wired headset in the last 3 years. Imho that's one of the most useless accesoires that comes with mobiles. If I want to listen to music, I'll

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-18 Thread thomasg
can only guess: it could be a problem with the alsa settings, or maybe the impedance of the headsets was just different. On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Gilles Casse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thomasg wrote: We all? At least not me. There are a bunch of wired headsets, headphones, I never used

Re: Nano on Openmoko

2008-04-15 Thread thomasg
Some of the OM people are working on it. It's called assasin - you might check it out from OM projects svn. On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Tim Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kind of off topic, but is there a slick GUI for opkg yet? Terminal typing on the go with a stylus seems like it

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

2008-04-14 Thread thomasg
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 have some devices that can only be loaded over usb and some who can also use a proprietary charger. I mostly use usb, because I have a dozend

Wrong Mini-USB-Jack

2008-04-14 Thread thomasg
it would need to change the breakout in the case, so I don't see any chance to get this done in the current stage. We just wanted to point that out, to give OM Inc. a chance to fix this issue. Greetings, thomasg ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-14 Thread thomasg
Black is the new pink :) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Data over normal GSM call

2008-04-12 Thread thomasg
That's not all, there are even more factors: Mic - A/D converter - Codec (depends on net and quality: up to 5 different codecs possible) - Radio - Air-Interface - Radio -Codec - Voice Quality Enhancer (VQE - who knows what this will do with your data, maybe just dropping it at all) - and the same

Re: Hardware update

2008-04-09 Thread thomasg
It was on the list a few weeks ago - the main reason is the ram divisor - clocking the cpu higher means clocking the ram lower, means lowering the total throughput. So it's a question of requirements. Lowering the ramclock for having the cpu at a higher speed is not worth it. Another point is the

Re: Web Browser?

2008-04-07 Thread thomasg
think different people like different solutions - but I want to read, not to wait - scroll - wait - scroll - zoom - watch fancy graphics - zoom again, ... On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Tilman Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thomasg wrote: In my honest opinion a iphone-browser

Re: Unofficial poll: Do you want 3G in the proposed successor, GTA03?

2008-04-07 Thread thomasg
If you ask me: drop wifi, add hsdpa. But nobody asks me. :( Wimax won't be of any relevance for mobile devices in the future, so no need to deal with it. I think it's too early to talk about LTE yet, let's stay with what we have: HSDPA. Phase 4 is coming, means up to 10 mbit/s gross (maybe 8

Re: Hardware update

2008-04-07 Thread thomasg
No, you can chose between 850/1800/1900 and 900/1800/1900 MHz. On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Alexander Frøyseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soo I can choose from 400/500 MHz and 850/900 MHz when I buy the phone? Alexander Frøyseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Am Mo 7. April 2008 schrieb

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-24 Thread thomasg
I think spare parts are things that should be available via the distributors. 1. What: there are some parts everybody needs to replace or restock at some point: battery (very important), stylus (not really important), front/back-cover (moderately important), headsets, pouches, cables/chargers

Re: Official Reseller

2008-03-22 Thread thomasg
@Jan: Of course there is no connection for this number - the number is 0800 87*4* 7638. @Harry: Good to hear that there are two official resalers; hopefully the flaming in the forums will stop. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Jan Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Roland, given the

Re: freerunner - DONT buy it local

2008-03-20 Thread thomasg
Still people who just don't want to realize, that this is the price including VAT and so on... Stop propagating FUD! And wait until the prices are fix... On 3/20/08, Alexandre Ghisoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le jeudi 20 mars 2008 à 13:53 +0100, Matthias Ringwald a écrit : I didn't follow up

Re: Additional info

2008-03-19 Thread thomasg
I haven't used a Nokia N800 or Motorola A1200, so I can't really say what their build quality is like. But I have used many many other Nokias and some Motos, and imho the Neos case is at least as good, if not much better. The clearance of the case is better than any Nokia owner would dream of (in

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread thomasg
Since nobody seems to realize it, I guess I have to explain this. 1. Even the distributor has to pay shipping 2. 19% VAT in germany 3. x% additional fees (recycling, ...) in germany/europe 4. 2 years warranty in germany 5. The dollar-euro change will not always remain nearby 1.60$/1€ 6. People who

Re: neo1973-germany starting to rumble...

2008-03-14 Thread thomasg
Use http://neo1973-germany.de - at least until Johannes fixes his www :) On 3/14/08, Christian Weßel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry folks, but I am not able to reach a page: Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server.

Re: Need a Cellphone now...

2008-03-10 Thread thomasg
You probably don't want to hear it, but no chance to get a phone that supports your Must have + OpenMoko. As Freerunner doesn't have EDGE or UMTS there imho won't be a chance to get such a phone in 2008. On 3/10/08, Daniel Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I wonder if it's possible to