Re: My experience with the Freerunner

2008-05-27 Thread Greg Bonett
Would there be a problem with doing two (or more) calls in series and just adding up the time of each call? I would be impressed if the battery survived through two near four hour calls. Just be sure to start the second call shortly after the first one finishes. On Tue, May 27, 2008 5:27 am,

Private data protection.

2008-05-27 Thread Ilja O.
Hello. Recent Lifehacher article [1] rose a privacy-related question in my head -- how to protect user personal data if phone is stolen? First of all - I assume that phone was stolen for it's physical contents (and not to steal your data), so attacker will likely just to turn it on, and won't

Re: Car Mode Application...

2008-05-27 Thread ramsesoriginal
Sounds all pretty intresting. The only problem I see is that 'till now we only have a location, but not a navigation app (even if that shouldn't be a probelm, when we have reliable maps). In what language/toolkit do you plan to work? On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Staley, Daniel L [EMAIL

Re: Car Mode Application...

2008-05-27 Thread Kyle Gordon
Staley, Daniel L wrote: So now that the freerunner is almost upon us (my friends will be glad when it finally comes out after a year of telling them a couple months from now I'll have it!), I have thought about what my first project is going to be. Being the nerd and impulsive buyer I am, I

RE: IGES STEP CAD file issues

2008-05-27 Thread Jeremiah Flerchinger
Well, I haven't had any luck getting Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0 to install on Linux with Wine. It fails at a different point every time with one of a dozen documented errors. They suggesting ordering installing off a CD to fix most of those issues. Guillermo, I actually started an email to you

RE: My experience with the Freerunner

2008-05-27 Thread steve
Ian got a phone with the Apps based on GTK. everyone will. However, I wanted to let the community see the NEXT STEP. So the next step ( ASU) is now public. you need a GTA02 to appreciate it. and even then it's a raw first look at pre alpha software. maybe Kevin Dean or the Ians can make

RE: My experience with the Freerunner

2008-05-27 Thread steve
Ian, There are two different software loads. Out of the box you should have Openhand Apps running on GTK. That is the BASE functionality. dialer, sms, contacts. The future software stack is available from Michael. Entirely different monster. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: SyncML on Freerunner

2008-05-27 Thread Christoph Witzany
Well not entirely. At least not the vanilla funambol installation. Of course syncing contacts/calendars/notes can be done with funambol out of the box. But in the thread .Mac like service there came up some additional ideas (like a transparent filesystem that stores files in the net when

RE: My experience with the Freerunner (was: Any Stats on Batterylife....)

2008-05-27 Thread steve
Talk time is an interesting metric. It would be cool to see how claimed talk times correspond with measured talk times. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ian douglas Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:47 PM To: List for Openmoko community

Re: SyncML on Freerunner

2008-05-27 Thread Christoph Witzany
Jens Meyer schrieb: funambol is GPL (?!) funambol is affero gpl ( www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/a*gpl*-3.0.html ), which just means you have to provide the sourcecode if you offer a service based on it (which is fine with me). And yes it would make more sense to build a service eco system

RE: Car Mode Application...

2008-05-27 Thread Staley, Daniel L
This project looks to be exactly what I need to integrate with! It even takes commands over dbus! Well that sounds like a good starting point. Does anyone know if the media player currently implemented takes start/stop commands from dbus? If not (which im assuming from the state it was in

Re: My experience with the Freerunner

2008-05-27 Thread Lorn Potter
steve wrote: Ian got a phone with the Apps based on GTK. everyone will. However, I wanted to let the community see the NEXT STEP. So the next step ( ASU) is now public. you need a GTA02 to appreciate it. and even then it's a raw first look at pre alpha software. Actually, I believe they

Re: My experience with the Freerunner (was: Any Stats on Batterylife....)

2008-05-27 Thread Federico Lorenzi
Wow, that actually looks better then I expected. According to PhoneScoop, my Nokia E51 has a talk time of 4 hours or so. Although I'm not too sure if this is with UMTS or GSM, and I can't really test as there is no such thing as free calling here. Cheers, Federico On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:13

Re: Car Mode Application...

2008-05-27 Thread Vinc Duran
I'm not completely certain but I don't think TangoGPS does routing. I think Navit was written with cars in mind. TangoGPS will keep track of your friends. On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Kosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That looks nice, but what about the TangoGPS? Marcus? It's been a while

RE: Car Mode Application...

2008-05-27 Thread Staley, Daniel L
Oh I'm not looking to replace TangoGPS. I've been following his project since he first released it on my Neo, and I've been very impressed. However, I dont believe (correct me if I'm wrong Marcus) that it does directions or has a way for me to easily interface with it in another application.

Re: My experience with the Freerunner

2008-05-27 Thread Kevin Dean
Yeah, there are GTA01 images for the ASU, I've tested them. Not too much to report, ASU is almost totally non-functional but it gives a good view of it's potential. I planned on doing video over this weekend but I got sick for the first time in almost three years. *growls* On Tue, May 27, 2008

Re: SyncML on Freerunner

2008-05-27 Thread Samuel Melrose
Hey again, To try and answer some more questions, as Christoph has already done so mostly... The reason for having an OWN server for this project was to implement multiple things... We were going to start small, but thing big, and go where no-one has gone before... Well, at least that was

Neo as cellular modem?

2008-05-27 Thread Vinc Duran
Hi, I'm was sitting in my workshop with the cable modem out and the local wireless not working correctly and so no internet access today, wondering if we can expect to use the FreeRunner/Openmoko as a cellular modem at any point. I haven't seen much mention of this. Any ideas? Thanks, Vinc

Re: Car Mode Application...

2008-05-27 Thread Fabian Off
Am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2008 17:08:04 schrieb Staley, Daniel L: So now that the freerunner is almost upon us (my friends will be glad when it finally comes out after a year of telling them a couple months from now I'll have it!), I have thought about what my first project is going to be. snip,

Re: Any Stats on Battery life....

2008-05-27 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Finally I've found something! Einstein from freeyourphone.de got a Freerunner and started a very good report [1] Just to notify: Einstein has updated his post [1] with a battery test done using the mwester suspend-enabled kernel [2] and, if I've understood

Re: Neo as cellular modem?

2008-05-27 Thread nickd
I think you should be able to but GPRS data rates aren't anything to be proud of [1], especially with web pages these days built assuming broadband bandwidth. You might get away with sites built for mobiles though. If I were you I'd work out how to get access to some wireless somewhere

RE: Neo as cellular modem?

2008-05-27 Thread Matt Mets
It should be no problem.  You just have to set up your routing tables correctly so that the desktop knows to route its traffic to the device, and the device knows to forward traffic to the cellular connection.  It would be really handy to have an application to configure all of this

[Fwd: u-blox binary protocol boilerplate code]

2008-05-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
Since this question might be of general interest, I've taken the liberty of answering it on the list. Joseph asked about u-blox code, and Andy pointed us to the DM2 test code:

RE: My experience with the Freerunner

2008-05-27 Thread steve
Yes, but I haven't reviewed it so I don't want to make representations or promises. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lorn Potter Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:48 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: My experience with

3G USB Dongle (was Re: Neo as cellular modem?)

2008-05-27 Thread nickd
That's a great idea Matt! Might be a drain on the battery moving packets around though. Speaking of which, would anyone know if it would be possible to use a 3G USB dongle on one of these? I can't see why not. I have a friend here in Australia who users a Three (Hutchinson) network USB dongle

Wisdom of crowds - the update

2008-05-27 Thread JW
hi steve community once upon a time a long, long time ago tim kersten set up a site to track the wisdom of crowds [1] with regard to the question how many freerunners will FIC sell in the first two months the answer can be seen here (click the stats tab) http://openmoko.hobby-site.com/ and is

Re: My experience with the Freerunner

2008-05-27 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:15:14PM -0400, Kevin Dean wrote: I planned on doing video over this weekend but I got sick for the first time in almost three years. *growls* Can you please post to this list when you have done it :) With in the Subject the word video. Looking forward to

Re: Any Stats on Battery life....

2008-05-27 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:49:02AM +0200, Marco Trevisan (Trevi~no) wrote: Marco Trevisan (Trevi~no) wrote: Finally I've found something! Einstein from freeyourphone.de got a Freerunner and started a very good report [1] Just to notify: Einstein has

RE: QT/GTK madness

2008-05-27 Thread steve
You git it.!! My whole goal was to get a stable working set of basic apps as the factory preload. That's the GTK stuff. People can work on it if they like, extend it, change it, whatever. But it must be a working phone. In parallel we would fork down a more adventurous path. -Original

Library can handle MP3 id3tag encoding

2008-05-27 Thread Bin Chen
HI, Is there a good library can handle MP3 id3tag encoding easily? AFAIK, the encoding that in the id3tag can't be decided, it maybe ASCII, UTF-8 and others which sometimes cause the software to decode some error character. The libid3tag can do raw reading to id3tag but not handle the encoding

Re: Library can handle MP3 id3tag encoding

2008-05-27 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/27 Bin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HI, Is there a good library can handle MP3 id3tag encoding easily? AFAIK, the encoding that in the id3tag can't be decided, it maybe ASCII, UTF-8 and others which sometimes cause the software to decode some error character. The libid3tag can do raw

Re: QT/GTK madness

2008-05-27 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:26:57PM -0700, steve wrote: My whole goal was to get a stable working set of basic apps as the factory preload. That's the GTK stuff. People can work on it if they like, extend it, change it, whatever. But it must be a working phone. I agree with this.