Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-06 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:13:45 +0100 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) m...@3v1n0.net babbled: Let me give everyone a bit more background into the keypad issue. We first saw the Qtopia predictive keypad back in February of 2008, and became extremely exited. This keypad, we believed, had the potential

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-04 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009, Sean Moss-Pultz a écrit : Now we're again struggling with closed firmwares (both the Calypso and the Atheros module). I would love to just make our own WiFi chip, but Openmoko doesn't have the volume to return our investment in such a technology endeavor. Hello

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-04 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/4/09 Minh Ha Duong wrote: Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009, Sean Moss-Pultz a écrit : Now we're again struggling with closed firmwares (both the Calypso and the Atheros module). I would love to just make our own WiFi chip, but Openmoko doesn't have the volume to return our

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-03 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/3/09 Lee Grime wrote: I come from a hardware background, chip design mainly, but analogue (note the spelling :-) ) and DSP(MSc) are still strong points. Done chip design for 15 years. Now I do not have a great deal of time at the moment, what with a 3 week old baby and stuff!, but

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-03 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Hi Marco On 1/3/09 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: We asked Raster to integrate this keypad into Om 2008 and extend it to make it more hacker friendly (i.e., usable from places like the terminal). After two months of more or less silence he showed us his own version, written from

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-03 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
JW wrote: Sean Kudos to you for your openness about the status of Openmoko Inc and the future roadmap, the numbers so far and future ambitions.Also for your hints about some of the hard decisions and pain along the way. :-) Its no small achievement to take this start up to the stage

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-02 Thread Lee Grime
Sean, I come from a hardware background, chip design mainly, but analogue (note the spelling :-) ) and DSP(MSc) are still strong points. Done chip design for 15 years. Now I do not have a great deal of time at the moment, what with a 3 week old baby and stuff!, but if we can get a few other

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-02 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:50:14 +0100 Lee Grime lee.gr...@gmail.com babbled: or... use something programmable like the omap3 series that comes with a dsp to offload work to - arm has been working on doing cortex a9 which is multi-core. forget glamo. it's legacy. if you are talking of doing an SoC

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-02 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Q5. Kosa and Marco wondered if you could say us something about the management that doesn't seem to be loved by great hackers like Harald and Carsten. For example, what is your analysis of the controversies that led Om2008 to ship with Qtopia's predictive keyboard.

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-02 Thread JW
Sean Moss-Pultz sean at openmoko.com writes: sniplots of stuff Sean Kudos to you for your openness about the status of Openmoko Inc and the future roadmap, the numbers so far and future ambitions.Also for your hints about some of the hard decisions and pain along the way. Its no small