Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 02:52 schrieb Mike: If someone from OM chimes in and says OSS-only really is the goal, I'll buy a Palm Treo tomorrow and never look at this project again. Free-Software-only is the goal, but it's unfortunately not easy to achieve and depends on our common efforts.

Re: Phone enhancements

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Van Vlaenderen
When the GPS senses you are zigzagging on a street, the phone could shutdown your engine too :-) Even people that are not able to drive a car can be stopped. A lot less problems in my town on sunday morning ;-) On 1/28/07, Declan Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/28/07, Tehn Yit Chin

Re: Phone enhancements

2007-01-29 Thread David Schlesinger
On 1/29/07 3:44 AM, Jan Van Vlaenderen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the GPS senses you are zigzagging on a street, the phone could shutdown your engine too :-) Even people that are not able to drive a car can be stopped. A lot less problems in my town on sunday morning ;-) You¹d have to be

Re: Q: desktop software?

2007-01-29 Thread Bryce Leo
I would like to use FreeNX to use the Neo1973 from a Workstation, and to have video projctor presentation live from a Neo1973. That sounds like a fantastic idea. It should be pretty simple to get something like FreeNX up and running on the device. Then a full emulation to use the full Neo1973

Re: Phone enhancements

2007-01-29 Thread Bryce Leo
You'd have to be doing some serious zigzagging: resolution of GPS at street level is about 50 meters... Exactly the point!! if you're zig zaggin that much you definately need to have the cops get called! But on a serious note, how could it be 50 meters? That's about 165 feet... in certain

Re: Q: desktop software?

2007-01-29 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Bryce! On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bryce Leo wrote: I would like to use FreeNX to use the Neo1973 from a Workstation, and to have video projctor presentation live from a Neo1973. That sounds like a fantastic idea. It should be pretty simple to get something like FreeNX up and running on the

RE: Phone enhancements

2007-01-29 Thread Graham Auld
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryce Leo Sent: 29 January 2007 14:31 To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Phone enhancements You'd have to be doing some serious zigzagging: resolution of GPS at street level is about 50

GIS on the Moko!

2007-01-29 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So we have a target now: http://www.freeance.com/mobile My idea is to make the same think on the OM platform. pc - -- Paolo Cavallini email+jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.faunalia.it Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy Tel:

Re: GIS on the Moko!

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 16:09 schrieb Paolo Cavallini: My idea is to make the same think on the OM platform. The QGIS port to qtopia4.2 should be much easier, don't you think ? Oleg. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: GIS on the Moko!

2007-01-29 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sure, but will qtopia have a gps? pc Oleg Gusev ha scritto: Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 16:09 schrieb Paolo Cavallini: My idea is to make the same think on the OM platform. The QGIS port to qtopia4.2 should be much easier, don't you think ?

Re: Phone enhancements

2007-01-29 Thread David Schlesinger
My recollection was a little out of date. Units without WAAS correction seem to get something like 10 to 25 meters resolution... Units with correction do better... See http://www.doylesdartden.com/gis/gpstest.htm On 1/29/07 6:57 AM, Graham Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original

Another GPS post from a GL engineer

2007-01-29 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Guys, Here are more comments to recent GPS related posts on this list. Hope you'll find some answers here. -- On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:38:20PM +0100, Michele Manzato wrote: Some additional questions on this subject: 1. Is there any A-GPS

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-29 Thread Mike
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 02:52 schrieb Mike: If someone from OM chimes in and says OSS-only really is the goal, I'll buy a Palm Treo tomorrow and never look at this project again. Free-Software-only is the goal, but it's unfortunately not easy to achieve and depends on our common

Silent mode timeout

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Burdette
A simple feature that I'd like to see is a silent mode timeout. What always happens with my current phone is I set it to silent mode because I'm in a movie or a meeting, and then later I forget to turn the ringer back on. This leads to a lot of missed calls. You could have a default timeout

Re: Silent mode timeout

2007-01-29 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Ben! Good idea ;) On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Ben Burdette wrote: A simple feature that I'd like to see is a silent mode timeout. What always happens with my current phone is I set it to silent mode because I'm in a movie or a meeting, and then later I forget to turn the ringer back on.

Re: Silent mode timeout

2007-01-29 Thread Knight Walker
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:30:38AM -0700, Ben Burdette wrote: A simple feature that I'd like to see is a silent mode timeout. What always happens with my current phone is I set it to silent mode because I'm in a movie or a meeting, and then later I forget to turn the ringer back on. This

Re: Silent mode timeout

2007-01-29 Thread Gervais Mulongoy
Hello Ben, Please add this idea here (http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Ideas) so its easier to find. -Gervais. On 1/29/07, Ben Burdette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A simple feature that I'd like to see is a silent mode timeout. What always happens with my current phone is I set it to

Re: Another GPS post from a GL engineer

2007-01-29 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29/01/07, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenMokoids LOL I hope this phrase is somewhere in the official documentation :-) -- Regards, Dave ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

idea: World Clock

2007-01-29 Thread Mary Stovel
The pictures of the Neo show a clock. Will this be a world clock? I would really like one so that when I get to Germany next year, I can keep track of time back home for making my calls. One with ability to set alarms would be great. mary ___

Re: Q: desktop software?

2007-01-29 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Bryce Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070129 15:09]: I would like to use FreeNX to use the Neo1973 from a Workstation, and to have video projctor presentation live from a Neo1973. That sounds like a fantastic idea. It should be pretty simple to get something like FreeNX up and running on the

Re: idea: World Clock

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Turner
Well, what if you just entered the phone number - based on the country code region/area code, the time is displayed at that location. Or when you go to your address book and show a user, it shows the time for that person. And while you mention it - re: Alarms, the *best* interface feature for

Re: Silent mode timeout

2007-01-29 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. I cc openmoko-devel for interested developer. On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:30, Ben Burdette wrote: A simple feature that I'd like to see is a silent mode timeout. What always happens with my current phone is I set it to silent mode because I'm in a movie or a meeting, and then later I

Re: idea: World Clock

2007-01-29 Thread michael
On 1/29/07, Mary Stovel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pictures of the Neo show a clock. Will this be a world clock? I would really like one so that when I get to Germany next year, I can keep track of time back home for making my calls. One with ability to set alarms would be great.

Re: idea: World Clock

2007-01-29 Thread Al Johnson
Also time related: Setting timezone based on location I can see by your location you've changed timezone from X to Y. Would you like to change timezone? Setting timezone of events in PIM Depart Calais at 21:00 (GMT+1), arrive Folkestone 20:30 (GMT). iCal files can represent

Re: idea: World Clock

2007-01-29 Thread David Schlesinger
Speaking as someone who travels (a _lot_) widespread and configurable support for time zones would be a very attractive feature. For example, if there's a portion of the status bar (or equivalent) that's user-configurable, being able to throw a second widget or gadget or whatever in there to

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 17:30 schrieb Mike: Are you one of the people running the OM project? No. Oleg. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: GIS on the Moko!

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 16:53 schrieb Paolo Cavallini: Sure, but will qtopia have a gps? gpsd(8) does not depend on GUI environment. Oleg. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Another GPS post from a GL engineer

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 16:50 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz: THERE are four basic sorts of GPS: Autonomous - the standard hand-held device that gets a fix in 1 to 3 minutes outdoors Ok, so we have a confirmation from GL that the 50bps datastream is available, can be decoded and used.

transparent effect to overlay two calender Re: idea: World Clock

2007-01-29 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Mary,*! Nice idea :) On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Mary Stovel wrote: The pictures of the Neo show a clock. Will this be a world clock? I would like that the normal calendar shows time of daylight - brigher background during the local day - darker background during the nigth (maybe

RE: Silent mode timeout

2007-01-29 Thread Crane, Matthew
Maybe to implement these ideas in general: - take idea of shortcut in general as some functional aspect of the phone - define these with time or position data to make a cue, to allow timed and/or position based trigger of the shortcuts If the phone's shortcuts could be triggered via a

Re: Silent mode timeout

2007-01-29 Thread Marcus Haebler
I would like to see a specific profile activated when I am in the car. Based on recent GPS changes (vectors) the phone should be able to conclude that I am in the car and switch the profile to my car profile (e.g. loud ring tone + visual indication). We could sum the whole feature up under GPS

Re: Phone enhancements

2007-01-29 Thread Ian Stirling
Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: Hi! On 1/29/07, Graham Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryce Leo Sent: 29 January 2007 14:31 To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Phone enhancements You'd

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-29 Thread Rod Whitby
Oleg Gusev wrote: Free-Software-only is the goal, but it's unfortunately not easy to achieve and depends on our common efforts. Mike wrote: Are you one of the people running the OM project? Oleg Gusev wrote: No. Then on what basis, Oleg, do you make the statement Free-Software-only is the

AT commands document (Was: Fax modem? Fax software? Neo as T.38 gateway?)

2007-01-29 Thread Carlo E. Prelz
Subject: Re: Fax modem? Fax software? Neo as T.38 gateway? Date: mar 30 gen 07 12:02:42 +0100 Quoting Andreas Kostyrka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My question is: would the GSM chip has a modem for data connections and also fax support? Good question. And if it is, is it a standard