Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Steven **
Really, the chances of your connection being *constantly* in use is pretty small. You'd have to be downloading a relatively large file or something that has 0 ms of idle time. I'm pretty sure this wouldn't happen during normal use. For example, you're browsing the web. You'd pull up a webpage.

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag 03 Juli 2008 22:55:48 schrieb Shawn Rutledge: > This is all the same on both the original Neo1973 and the Freerunner, > right? > > Is the FSO image OK for doing GPRS? milestone1 did not contain any gprs features. milestone2 was not supposed to have, but since people have approached

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Erland Lewin
Would be possible to do some sort of bandwidth throttling of the GPRS data connection, or pausing data traffic briefly with some interval to make sure that incoming calls get through? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http:/

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Shawn Rutledge
This is all the same on both the original Neo1973 and the Freerunner, right? Is the FSO image OK for doing GPRS? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Mikko Rauhala
to, 2008-07-03 kello 16:15 -0400, Nkoli kirjoitti: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Mikko Rauhala > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Umh. Disappointing. Is this really the best it can do or best > that has been coaxed out of it so far? > > This is the case with all gprs/edge

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Nkoli
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Mikko Rauhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Umh. Disappointing. Is this really the best it can do or best that has > been coaxed out of it so far? > > This is the case with all gprs/edge capable phones - it has nothing to do with the neo specifically. 3G radios c

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Mikko Rauhala
to, 2008-07-03 kello 21:35 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer kirjoitti: > Note though, once someone wants to call you while you are not idling, i.e. > during a long wget, you will not get any call notifications. Instead, the > network will think you are not reachable and -- if configured -- send you

My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag 03 Juli 2008 08:21:50 schrieb Knight Walker: > Anyone who has paid attention to this mailing list over the last few > months has seen the "It doesn't have 3G, it's worthless" messages about > the FreeRunner. For me (And many, many others) having a fast, > power-hungry wireless pipe to

Re: How Slow Is Fast?

2008-07-03 Thread Sander van Grieken
> Anyone who has paid attention to this mailing list over the last few > months has seen the "It doesn't have 3G, it's worthless" messages about > the FreeRunner. For me (And many, many others) having a fast, > power-hungry wireless pipe to the phone isn't as important as everything > else the Free

Re: How Slow Is Fast?

2008-07-03 Thread Federico Lorenzi
Well, I did some work with regards to streaming videos over GPRS a while ago, and ahven in #openmoko was able to play a streaming video that had a total bit rate of 52kbps with no lag. (H264 at 40 with Vorbis audio at 12, and it looked and sounded better then the normal YouTube mobile streaming too

How Slow Is Fast?

2008-07-02 Thread Knight Walker
Anyone who has paid attention to this mailing list over the last few months has seen the "It doesn't have 3G, it's worthless" messages about the FreeRunner. For me (And many, many others) having a fast, power-hungry wireless pipe to the phone isn't as important as everything else the FreeRunner bri