A Closed iPhone is an Opportunity

2007-01-11 Thread Mark Pesce
Howdy, all. (My first post to this list, and thanks for having me...) While we can't be entirely sure that the iPhone is a closed device - Apple may be waiting to spring something onto the world at WWDC, in May - all indications are that they regard the iPhone as a firmware device, as closed, lo

Re: Lightweight 'navigational' app? (Was Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?)

2007-01-11 Thread David \"Lefty\" Schlesinger
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 02:50 +0100, Attila Csipa wrote: > The one little problem with that: I was gonna say... ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Lightweight 'navigational' app? (Was Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?)

2007-01-11 Thread Attila Csipa
On Friday 12 January 2007 00:15, Paul Bohme wrote: > > Car kit? Please tell me it includes car navigation software... :) > > We were chewing this one over at work the other day. If you could pull > a list of waypoints from (say) Google's mapping API, and location data > from the GPS it might be p

Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

2007-01-11 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcus Bauer schreef: > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:48 -0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: >> On 1/11/07 3:38 PM, "Koen Kooi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If there's enough interest, it might be cool to just sell the mapping data >>> Raster or vector, and

Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

2007-01-11 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:48 -0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > On 1/11/07 3:38 PM, "Koen Kooi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> If there's enough interest, it might be cool to just sell the mapping data > > > > Raster or vector, and with or without address data? > > This would be the raw stuff tha

Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

2007-01-11 Thread Attila Csipa
On Friday 12 January 2007 00:00, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > We have this stuff, but I didn't think to use it for the first release of > OpenMoko. The rendering engine is totally closed source, expensive, and the > maps are even more expensive. > If there's enough interest, it might be cool to just se

Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

2007-01-11 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:16:48 +0100, Fabian Off wrote: > > Am Freitag, 12. Januar 2007 00:01 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz: > > If there's enough interest, it might be cool to just sell the mapping data > > and see if we can support an open source mapping engineer. Is this something > > people would pay

Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

2007-01-11 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/11/07 3:38 PM, "Koen Kooi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If there's enough interest, it might be cool to just sell the mapping data > > Raster or vector, and with or without address data? This would be the raw stuff that companies like TomTom, Navigon, and Destinator, parse. I don't even kn

Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

2007-01-11 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean Moss-Pultz schreef: > On 1/11/07 1:06 PM, "Sven Neuhaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> We have two more kits that will be available (in addition to the standard >>> kit): A "Car Kit" and a "Hacker's Lunchbox." >> Car kit? Please tell me it inc

Re: Lightweight 'navigational' app? (Was Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?)

2007-01-11 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Bohme schreef: > Sven Neuhaus wrote: >> Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: >>> We have two more kits that will be available (in addition to the >>> standard >>> kit): A "Car Kit" and a "Hacker's Lunchbox." >> >> Car kit? Please tell me it includes car navigat

Re: external add-ons?

2007-01-11 Thread Attila Csipa
On Thursday 11 January 2007 19:56, Atlasz wrote: > > significantly less bulky and likely cheaper than assembling these > > components 'by hand'. As somebody mentioned, it could be in a form of > It can be done > and the components are not expensive. But it's not for everybody and > takes some time

Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

2007-01-11 Thread Fabian Off
Am Freitag, 12. Januar 2007 00:01 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz: > If there's enough interest, it might be cool to just sell the mapping data > and see if we can support an open source mapping engineer. Is this something > people would pay for? > > -Sean Of course they would do so. Everybody who's payi

Lightweight 'navigational' app? (Was Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?)

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Bohme
Sven Neuhaus wrote: Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: We have two more kits that will be available (in addition to the standard kit): A "Car Kit" and a "Hacker's Lunchbox." Car kit? Please tell me it includes car navigation software... :) This screen (not to mention the GPS) is just screaming for maps t

About the openness of the iPhone

2007-01-11 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
I made a comment last night about thinking the iPhone would not be open. Just so I don't sound like another person speculating, here's it coming from the horse's mouth: "It isn't OS X proper, as you'd expect. And like an iPod, it won't be an open system that people can develop for. Remember, this

Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

2007-01-11 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/11/07 1:06 PM, "Sven Neuhaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We have two more kits that will be available (in addition to the standard >> kit): A "Car Kit" and a "Hacker's Lunchbox." > > Car kit? Please tell me it includes car navigation software... :) > This screen (not to mention the GPS) i

Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

2007-01-11 Thread Sven Neuhaus
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: We have two more kits that will be available (in addition to the standard kit): A "Car Kit" and a "Hacker's Lunchbox." Car kit? Please tell me it includes car navigation software... :) This screen (not to mention the GPS) is just screaming for maps to display. The latte

Re: iPhone vs. Neo1973 comparison

2007-01-11 Thread Sven Neuhaus
Sean Moss-Pultz schrieb: On 1/10/07 5:30 AM, "Ole Tange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have created a comparison between iPhone and Neo1973: http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/iPhone Very cool! Thanks for taking the time to do this. The only thing I found is that micro-SD can go to 2GB n

Re: Kingmax announces microSDHC 4G card

2007-01-11 Thread Chad
Are there actual protocol differences with SD HC or does it just mean "you need FAT32 support to use this card"? On 1/11/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.mobile-review.com/news.php?language=en#news12096 > > Any chance to use those with the Neo? > > > __

Kingmax announces microSDHC 4G card

2007-01-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
http://www.mobile-review.com/news.php?language=en#news12096 Any chance to use those with the Neo? pgpi8SBkXEE9R.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: external add-ons?

2007-01-11 Thread Atlasz
Attila Csipa wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 02:45, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > >>> wifi-and-keyboard dock-like item. I would imagine that these peripherals >>> would be almost as popular as the phone, as they would extend its >>> functionality quite a lot. >>> >> We'll be making a few

Re: iPhone Vs. Neo 1973

2007-01-11 Thread Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded
Michael, I fully agree. If anything, iPhone shows the mobile market where things are heading in terms of features and usability. This is a good thing and lays the ground for new ideas and competition. The important point for OpenMoko is that software usability and integration are absolutely key.

Re: iPhone vs. Neo1973 comparison

2007-01-11 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/10/07 5:30 AM, "Ole Tange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have created a comparison between iPhone and Neo1973: > http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/iPhone Very cool! Thanks for taking the time to do this. The only thing I found is that micro-SD can go to 2GB now. (Or that's what my ve

Re: external add-ons?

2007-01-11 Thread Attila Csipa
On Thursday 11 January 2007 02:45, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > > wifi-and-keyboard dock-like item. I would imagine that these peripherals > > would be almost as popular as the phone, as they would extend its > > functionality quite a lot. > > We'll be making a few...but since we're using standard USB

Re: hardware questions FIC Neo1973 Smartphone

2007-01-11 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Attila Kiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070111 16:12]: > A late answer, but still... > > Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > > Will GPRS get suspended while a voice call is in progress? (Guess so) > > > AFAIK there is no C class GPRS phone available on the market, I don't > think there is a HW available for t

Multi Touch screen demonstration video

2007-01-11 Thread Sam Kome
Had to dig through a month of sent mail to find this: interesting demonstration of multi-touch screen manipulations. I have another similar one, but it's even further into the pile "Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He

Re: Real Neo1973 photo?

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Jimenez
On Thursday, Jan 11, 2007, Sean Moss-Pultz writes: >On 1/10/07 8:53 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >Yes. > >So even though Apple's phone might be very elegant phone, its going to be >more of the same stuff that (IMHO) has held the mobile industry back -- >namely the lack of

Re: Apple iPhone

2007-01-11 Thread Richard Franks
On 1/11/07, el jefe delito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/11/07, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a year after release we will probably have two things: > 2) A Neo (released or in the works) which can provide all the 'eye > candy' decoration to those paradigms which we would ev

Re: Will it possible to use the Neo without battery? Re: Vegas

2007-01-11 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/10/07 11:39 AM, "Robert Michel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: >> I'm going to be in Vegas for another day now. Most of my work here is done >> this afternoon, so tomorrow I can relax a bit ;-) > > Then have fun ;-) > > And BTW I wish you and your t

Re: Real Neo1973 photo?

2007-01-11 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/10/07 8:53 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. Good overview article to refer to when my very > slightly > technical friends say "what is this OpenMoko thing I keep hearing about"? Thanks! > Sean must be tired in the picture. It looks like his eyes

Re: suggested development toolkit for games?

2007-01-11 Thread Richard Franks
On 1/10/07, Sven Neuhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard Franks wrote: > In terms of retro gaming though, it's the perfect platform for 2d games: Unfortunately, in the last 4 years of using a Sony Ericsson P800 phone I've learned that there're only a handful of decent games (genres) that can

Re: Maemo gps APIs

2007-01-11 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Koen Kooi schreef: > Hi, > > Andrew Flegg in #maemo pointed me to > http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowToUseGPSFrameworkInOS2007, which looks > seriously sweet. > Mickey hinted that libgpsmgr and libgpsbt might be present in the form of > dbus services o

Re: Apple iPhone

2007-01-11 Thread Richard Franks
On 1/10/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/01/07, Attila Csipa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Conceptually very similar to the FIC1973, with of course the > added Apple candy and design team efforts. I wonder how the FIC1973's graphics capabilities will compare - all the slick XGL

Re: Will it possible to use the Neo without battery?

2007-01-11 Thread Atlasz
Well, I'm looking to the internal sd card rather like to an additional hdd in my desktop, which can be upgraded any time if needed. That's good and I like it. But actually the other use case for SD card reader on a PDA or such is to transfer large amount of data to it from other device (like digita

Re: wi-fi ZD1211

2007-01-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 11 January 2007 11:28, xnike wrote: > Is it possible to use external usb devices like zydas wi-fi usb doungle? > Or not in this version of kernel in neo1973? > *As of Linux 2.6.18, the kernel includes a driver for ZD1211 & ZD1211B > hardware* > Neo uses 2.6.17.14 I think. You can use

Maemo gps APIs

2007-01-11 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Andrew Flegg in #maemo pointed me to http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowToUseGPSFrameworkInOS2007, which looks seriously sweet. Mickey hinted that libgpsmgr and libgpsbt might be present in the form of dbus services on the neo. Would FIC/openmoko con

wi-fi ZD1211

2007-01-11 Thread xnike
Is it possible to use external usb devices like zydas wi-fi usb doungle? Or not in this version of kernel in neo1973? *As of Linux 2.6.18, the kernel includes a driver for ZD1211 & ZD1211B hardware* ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.

small capacitor! Re: Will it possible to use the Neo without battery?

2007-01-11 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Gabriel! Gabriel Ambuehl schrieb am Mittwoch, den 10. Januar 2007 um 22:58h: > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 22:48, Fabian Off wrote: > > I just wonder how people could live with phones they > > have to switch off any time the card should be changed. > > Considering that the microsd slot is