Re: OpenMoko, statifier Ermi

2008-01-25 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Jan 24, 2008 10:19 PM, Valery Reznic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can it be used to fix gllin then? Yes. I packed gllin on my OABI system and Alessando tested it on his EABI. Does it still need some extra libs that are not included with the OM images, or were the extra libs in the gllin

Re: Any OS X developers out there working with OpenMoko?

2008-01-25 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Jan 25, 2008 8:53 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently looked into the change history of the dedicated MacOS X page in the wiki and I have got the impression that I am the only one still doing something and improving the interworking between the Mac and OpenMoko:

Re: OpenMoko, statifier Ermi

2008-01-25 Thread Valery Reznic
--- Shawn Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 10:19 PM, Valery Reznic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can it be used to fix gllin then? Yes. I packed gllin on my OABI system and Alessando tested it on his EABI. Does it still need some extra libs that are not included with

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:16:37 +0100, Etienne Labaume [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon Steven Le Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No direspect or anything but that's probably the dumbest tax I've ever heard of. Probably France is the dumbest country right now about taxes and other stupid stuff...

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Florent
No direspect or anything but that's probably the dumbest tax I've ever heard of. Don't worry, French geeks are pissed off as well Yeah, almost every tax talked about in this thread exists in France. But how do we avoid the Neo to be taxable ? As said, if you don't sell the phone with an

Re: Resellers / distributors for OpenMoko

2008-01-25 Thread Alexander Gabriel
Hello Michael, first of all: thanks for your hard work. Now to the question. The wiki page on shipping says that the GTA01 was shipped with 450 resp. 300 USD as given market value instead of the recommended (and correct) 0 USD market value for testing/dev equipment. I understand the first

Re: Any OS X developers out there working with OpenMoko?

2008-01-25 Thread Matthias Ringwald
Hi Nikolaus. I'm working on OS X and am still waiting on a phone I can buy and use. For some reason, I didn't order a GTA01 at the time and then came back from a US trip where I've uses SIP a lot in hotels/motels and other places which led me to insist on Wifi-support on the phone (free

Re: Any OS X developers out there working with OpenMoko?

2008-01-25 Thread Jay Vaughan
Is my impression wrong or have you all already bought an iPodTouch or iPhone and waits for the SDK? i'm working fulltime on a macbook pro, but for all my openmoko work i just use ubuntustudio on parallels .. there's no real need, from my point of view, to have native apps when VM just

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity / Switzerland too

2008-01-25 Thread Alexandre Ghisoli
Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 10:37 +0100, Steven Le Roux a écrit : On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:16:37 +0100, Etienne Labaume [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon Steven Le Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No direspect or anything but that's probably the dumbest tax I've ever heard of. Probably

Re: Any OS X developers out there working with OpenMoko?

2008-01-25 Thread alan
Is my impression wrong or have you all already bought an iPodTouch or iPhone and waits for the SDK? Please raise your hands... Nikolaus (hns) (Hand is raised.) Guilty as charged. As I have mentioned before, the iPhone is a Golden Form Factor device. I think of it more as a Quarter

Re: OpenMoko, statifier Ermine

2008-01-25 Thread Jay Vaughan
Program can be downloaded here: http://magicErmine/downloads.html This is great! I wonder if we can use this to finally package up the gps stuff and make it an easily-installed package .. ? ; -- Jay Vaughan ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Re: OpenMoko, statifier Ermi

2008-01-25 Thread Valery Reznic
--- Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what libraries included with OM, but once gllin is packed everything it's need are inside, so gllin.ermine can run ever on system without ld-linux, glibc, etc great, can we now take this new gllin.ermine and put it in a proper

Re: OpenMoko, statifier Ermi

2008-01-25 Thread Jay Vaughan
I don't know what libraries included with OM, but once gllin is packed everything it's need are inside, so gllin.ermine can run ever on system without ld-linux, glibc, etc great, can we now take this new gllin.ermine and put it in a proper package then, so that gps just plain works on gta01

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Friday 25 January 2008 01:00:06 Fabian Olesen wrote: this will not work in denmark, because the phone will be deemed capable of doing it. Why? The phone itself isn't capable to play anything until you add the software. It has a stereo audio circuitry, but it could be used just to listen and

Re: And so with....

2008-01-25 Thread andy selby
So in short, what happens after the GTA02? I think anyone who's involved in getting this device to market is not thinking that far ahead as their time is taken up with the GTA02 (now called Freerunner) ... that is cloud thinking at the moment. You answered your own question

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread hank williams
On Jan 25, 2008 7:11 PM, joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, like it or not, if this patent is valid (who knows) and its scope is what it looks like (I'm not a lawyer) it will have a significant impact on the *phone* world. In other words, *you* consider GTA to be a *phone*,

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread hank williams
I'm puzzled why you responded *twice* to the same email. And I'm sure somehow you missed the email that was actually a response to your first answer. Again, since you seem to have missed it. The thing that you say no one will opt for (over the air maps), is the way that millions of phones per

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread joerg
http://www.tomtom.com/products/features.php?ID=280Category=2Lid=1 ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread hank williams
On Jan 25, 2008 8:14 PM, Shawn Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 5:42 PM, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, since you seem to have missed it. The thing that you say no one will opt for (over the air maps), is the way that millions of phones per month are shipped

Re: Any OS X developers out there working with OpenMoko?

2008-01-25 Thread Aaron Cordova
I will also be using my device with OSX, I admit that I have not had any free time since my job is keeping very busy at the moment. I have a GTA01 with the debug board. I will gladly beta/alpha test anything you feel like writing. On Jan 25, 2008 2:19 PM, Brandon Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread Gilles Casse
Hi, Today, as already mentioned, Navit can use embedded maps from OpenStreetMap or proprietary maps. Since France is not yet very detailled in OSM, I am using an european map bought online, more than 2GB of flash are needed. Nevertheless, even with these data, it would be interesting to

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread ian douglas
hank williams wrote: Hmm... ok, so it comes with it but you cant use it without paying? You can use TeleNav if you know where you are and where you're going. You only have to pay the extra $10 for the TeleNav service to use the GPS on the phone. Without the GPS, it'll still give you the

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread joerg
let's move this thread to blackberry, iPhone, or google forum. I think we're boring others here, because this is the *OpenMoko* forum, and i don't see how the 'impact on *current* phone market' -however highly intriguing- has anything in common with what we are talking here: **GTA** j

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread ian douglas
hank williams wrote: I don't think any phones are going to come with navigation data built in. To my knowldge, the Samsung Blackjack 2 from ATT includes maps from TeleNav. You have to pay an extra $10/month to use GPS with those maps of course, so I just use the Mobile Google Maps

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread joerg
The maps ARE on board for all common GPS car navis (really big 256MB-flash card e.g.). In *cars*, not phones. btw: there have been on-board(!) navi solutions for phones(!) even before iPhone hit the market. This is the *Openmoko* list. We're talking *phones* here. Sure bout that? I

Re: And so with....

2008-01-25 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:37:07 -0500 Duvelle Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: So in short, what happens after the GTA02? GTA03 :) -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread hank williams
On Jan 25, 2008 7:47 PM, ian douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hank williams wrote: I don't think any phones are going to come with navigation data built in. To my knowldge, the Samsung Blackjack 2 from ATT includes maps from TeleNav. You have to pay an extra $10/month to use GPS with those

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread hank williams
On Jan 25, 2008 6:17 PM, joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... The patent purports to cover getting *any* information based on where you are, including maps. So unless all the map information or whatever information you need can fit on your phone you are not interested in it? I guess you

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread joerg
Hmm... The patent purports to cover getting *any* information based on where you are, including maps. So unless all the map information or whatever information you need can fit on your phone you are not interested in it? I guess you better wait for some *really* big flash memory chips. :)

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread joerg
Am Fr 25. Januar 2008 schrieb hank williams: [...] It appears that, in essence, the patents cover a phone providing current location information to a remote database which returns to the phone a collection of location centric information. According to the patent application, this location

Re: And so with....

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
andy selby wrote: So in short, what happens after the GTA02? I think anyone who's involved in getting this device to market is not thinking that far ahead as their time is taken up with the GTA02 (now called Freerunner) ... that is cloud thinking at the moment. You answered your own

Re: And so with....

2008-01-25 Thread Steven **
While FIC has stated that other devices are in the works, they have not announced the next cell phone model. There was an announcement about a car GPS device a little while back... -Steven On Jan 25, 2008 12:37 PM, Duvelle Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well first off, hi... I am new here but

GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread hank williams
Today I blogged about a companyhttp://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/01/are-apple-rim-and-google-all.htmlthat has a patent on what I would call the essence of putting a GPS in a cell phone. I provided some details on the patent in my blog, but the essence of the story is covered in this excerpt:

And so with....

2008-01-25 Thread Duvelle Jones
Well first off, hi... I am new here but have been observing for a long while. I will say that my interest for this phone is rather big. And now that my L7 is busted, viable. And on to business... it's a rather small thought that I have been humouring but I was wondering if any consideration has

Re: Brief Community Update, January 24, 2008

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Nils, Sadly, no update on either of those. We're still awaiting positive confirmation from TI for the GSM update, and power management has been prioritized lower than getting GTA02 out of the door. We do hear very clearly that power management is an extremely high concern, and will

Re: Any OS X developers out there working with OpenMoko?

2008-01-25 Thread Bobby Martin
OK, I see that FreeRunner doesn't have the case, or the stand, and currently doesn't have the software. How else is FreeRunner not close to hitting the mark? There is a TON of work to be done on the software side, and I'm not entirely convinced openmoko is the answer, but what's wrong with the

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Sébastien Lorquet
One of the dumbest tax we have here France is about multimedia hard drives, defined as an external hard drive (with usb) with a video output connecting to a tv without the use of a computer. There is a tax on these devices. But no (or less) tax on raw HDDs And no tax on empty hdd racks with video

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:00:58 -0500, Colan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I definitely don't think FIC (or now Openmoko) should include the cost (if there is one) of the licence to play MP3s. I don't want to pay that, and I don't think anyone else should either. I'm happy with just Ogg

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread hank williams
On Jan 25, 2008 8:33 PM, joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.tomtom.com/products/features.php?ID=280Category=2Lid=1 Now I guess I should post a link to an iPhone commercial. Hank ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread joerg
In other words, like it or not, if this patent is valid (who knows) and its scope is what it looks like (I'm not a lawyer) it will have a significant impact on the *phone* world. In other words, *you* consider GTA to be a *phone*, nothing else and not beyond. You're kidding? Like it or not,

Re: And so with....

2008-01-25 Thread Duvelle Jones
Well that is the thing, the wishlist is much like a bulletin board... a lot of ideas that are in parts. The thing about a phone, in my mind anyway, is that it tends to be a singular construct of thought. If FIC is taking information that drops into the wishlist and comes up with a singular

Re: Any OS X developers out there working with OpenMoko?

2008-01-25 Thread Brandon Kruse
In response to your company, it is coming. Besides, why not used the iPhone dev kit (hacked one) it probably exposes more than the iPhone kit will. Don't even start to think that the sound API will be released to you. Brandon Kruse (bkruse) On Jan 25, 2008,

Re: And so with....

2008-01-25 Thread Lucas Bonnet
Duvelle Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So in short, what happens after the GTA02? GTA03, of course :) Regards, -- Lucas Bonnet Bearstech - http://bearstech.com ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

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: Any OS X developers out there working with OpenMoko?

2008-01-25 Thread Jeremiah Flerchinger
I currently don't have a Neo, nor do I have an iPhone. I currently won't get the latter, due to the current lack of an SDK and being forced into a wireless contract that doesn't meet my needs. I do occasionally work in OS X, but am usually on a Ubuntu desktop. At the time being my plate is

Re: Brief Community Update, January 24, 2008

2008-01-25 Thread Nils Faerber
What about the status of open issues like: - in the field firmware update for GSM on GTA01 V3 and V4? - standby power management of GSM in new GSM firmware? Cheers nils Michael Shiloh schrieb: A brief update: 1. Evaluation of GTA02A5 is taking place. There is some excellent discussion on

Re: Any OS X developers out there working with OpenMoko?

2008-01-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Jan 2008, at 07:53, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: I recently looked into the change history of the dedicated MacOS X page in the wiki and I have got the impression that I am the only one still doing something and improving the interworking between the Mac and OpenMoko: ... Is my

Re: Any OS X developers out there working with OpenMoko?

2008-01-25 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Jan 25, 2008 12:02 PM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm working fulltime on a macbook pro, but for all my openmoko work i just use ubuntustudio on parallels .. there's no real need, from my point of view, to have native apps when VM just solves the problem entirely and gives

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Colan Schwartz
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:57:05PM +0100, Stefano Cavallari wrote: I'd like FIC to sell mp3 software including in the cost the license to play mp3, along adding a notice (for the countries which need it) that the phone isn't licensed to play music and that if needed the support must be bought

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Friday 25 January 2008 16:00:58 Colan Schwartz wrote: I definitely don't think FIC (or now Openmoko) should include the cost (if there is one) of the licence to play MP3s. I don't want to pay that, and I don't think anyone else should either. I'm happy with just Ogg and FLAC files.

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread herve couvelard
And I really like that speeding ticket analogy. This tax that assumes guilt is insane. I don't understand how modern democratic justice systems can tolerate it. Well, modern democratic justice is money, but that's another war. ;-) ___ OpenMoko

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Friday 25 January 2008 16:14:17 Stefano Cavallari wrote: On Friday 25 January 2008 16:00:58 Colan Schwartz wrote: I definitely don't think FIC (or now Openmoko) should include the cost (if there is one) of the licence to play MP3s. I don't want to pay that, and I don't think anyone else

Re: France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

2008-01-25 Thread Alejandro Enrique
Ok, add Spain to the list of countries in which this tax exists. So far we have this tax in CD, DVD, Hard Drives, USB memories, MP3 and MP4 players, MP3 playing mobiles, photocopiers, scanners, printers, memory cards... And they even want to extent this to everything that can be used to copy

Re: GPS/Cell phone patent issue

2008-01-25 Thread hank williams
On Jan 25, 2008 5:37 PM, joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Fr 25. Januar 2008 schrieb hank williams: [...] It appears that, in essence, the patents cover a phone providing current location information to a remote database which returns to the phone a collection of location centric