Re: AT commands (Re: But wich GSM chip? Re: AT commands document (Was: Fax modem? Fax software? Neo as T.38 gateway?))

2007-02-02 Thread Aloril
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 12:04 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:11:53AM -0800, Dimitris Kogias wrote: > > Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > > > On 1/31/07 12:32 AM, "Robert Michel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> So can you say us already a little more about the GSM chip? > > >

Re: h.264 format is now open?

2007-02-02 Thread Jeff Andros
not to do any parade-raining... but remember to that the ipods run some kind of dedicated OS (VXWorks?) we still have to deal with overhead for the OS... you can crank up the process priority, but at the expense of the other processes (what happens when a call comes in and the GSM daemon gets sta

Re: Idea for one of the next Neos: Projecting the display via LEDs

2007-02-02 Thread kkr
Le dimanche 21 janvier 2007 à 19:01 +0100, Ulrik Rasmussen a écrit : > On Sunday 21 January 2007 18:46, Wil Chung wrote: > > Dr. H., I agree that it needs a beam scanner, on first though, but does it > > have to be mechanical? I know you can direct radio waves with something > > like a phase array

Re: music applications: piano, drum, bell...

2007-02-02 Thread kkr
You're right, the first version will not be able of it. But in the V2 (2007-09-11), on the basis of this link (http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/), I think that it will be possible :-) Quotation: "Our technique is force-sensitive, and provides unprecedented resolution and scalability..." But I

Re: mail and contacts app

2007-02-02 Thread Jon Phillips
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 17:21 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 23:21 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: > > Right, there's one snag: tinymail uses its own forked little version of > > EDS, so if you use > > tinymail + openmoko PIM, you will have *2* copies of the EDS libs on your > > device :

Re: Other uses for the gsm/gprs hardware....

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Tim! On Fri, 02 Feb 2007, Tim Newsom wrote: > While the phone is not on a call, can we use the gsm audio codec or > other hardware/software to do useful work? For instance, decoding of > some audio file or something like that. Yes but not with the GSM IC - the Neo1973 itself has a quite

Other uses for the gsm/gprs hardware....

2007-02-02 Thread Tim Newsom
While the phone is not on a call, can we use the gsm audio codec or other hardware/software to do useful work? For instance, decoding of some audio file or something like that. I know we don't have access to the bare metal of the chip, but its probably at least an arm processor with some dsp

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary Re: Translators needed?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Vincente! On Sat, 03 Feb 2007, Vincente Aggrippino wrote: > I'm coming into this conversation late, as I just joined the mailing > list, Then welcome to our openmoko community :) > but I think I can offer a more general perspective on > translation. :) > My enthusiasm towards Open Source

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-02-02 Thread kkr
Le mercredi 31 janvier 2007 à 17:51 +0100, Ortwin Regel a écrit : > It's not difficult to understand but I think it's not a very intuitive > idea. Ideally future OpenMoko devices would have multitouch which > would get us very intuitive zoom and movement along the map. Using an > accelerometer to c

Re: Handy application ideas

2007-02-02 Thread kkr
Le jeudi 01 février 2007 à 17:31 -0700, Knight Walker a écrit : > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:57:22AM +0100, Richard Bennett wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There's 2 apps I think would be really usefull: > > SMS Remote Control. > > Allow the NEO user to record a 'macro', like 'Call number in > > spe

Re: Encrypting voice comunications..

2007-02-02 Thread Mikko Rauhala
pe, 2007-02-02 kello 09:54 -0800, Tim Newsom kirjoitti: > So, though possibly inefficient, we could not some how take the analog > audio stream, do some predictable and reversible encoding/encrypting > then convert into sounds again.. Like doing base64 encoding for binary > data.. > > In that w

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary Re: Translators needed?

2007-02-02 Thread Vincente Aggrippino
I'm coming into this conversation late, as I just joined the mailing list, but I think I can offer a more general perspective on translation. My wife, and many of her colleagues, are not native English speakers. They are all highly educated (PhD) and, among the entire group, speak several languag

Re: What would be a realistic but challenging level for Bryce announced trophy money for video playback on the Neo1973? Re: h.264 format is now open?

2007-02-02 Thread Bryce Leo
Now there is some most promising news, sound like with some simple optomizations for scaling that this shouldn't be too difficult eh? I put the full post about the bounty to the Dev maliing list. but the link to the wiki page is http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Video_Bounty That's the curr

Re: What would be a realistic but challenging level for Bryce announced trophy money for video playback on the Neo1973? Re: h.264 format is now open?

2007-02-02 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Friday 02 February 2007 12:31, Robert Michel wrote: > Some video information given by Sean in november: > http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-November/000340.html A few technical questions here. Is image data constantly transferred to LCD from system memory (60 times per second)

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Mikko Rauhala
pe, 2007-02-02 kello 20:51 +0100, Paul Wouters kirjoitti: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Mikko Rauhala wrote: > > Righto, so somebody's doing it already on free software. Good for us > > all :) > > cryptophone's phone cost 1500 euro. It's not free software. The source has > been published for peer review,

Re: Crytped calls through 9600Baud GSM-data connections?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Paul! Paul Wouters schrieb am Freitag, den 02. Februar 2007 um 20:43h: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Robert Michel wrote: > > > Did you discussed OTP, using less mobile device batterypower to add > > to the voicestream to build an encrypted connection between on users > > mobil and his homeserver?

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Mikko Rauhala wrote: > > > Of course, you can make a GSM data call (I presume) and thus reserve > > > > That's what www.cryptophone.de does to avoid latency issues. Some networks > > block mobile to mobile data calls though. > > Righto, so somebody's doing it already on free so

Re: Crytped calls through 9600Baud GSM-data connections?

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Robert Michel wrote: > Did you discussed OTP, using less mobile device batterypower to add > to the voicestream to build an encrypted connection between on users > mobil and his homeserver? Nope. In general, devices these days have enough cpu power to just do AES. CPU isn't th

Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-02-02 Thread Lars Hallberg
Jason Weathered skrev: With regards to accidental clicks, I have a couple of ideas: * Two taps at opposite corners or opposite edges to unlock. * A quick left/right/left triple tap or left->right->left drag action in the middle of the screen. * Apple's iPhone has a "slide to unlock". A conti

Re: Let us un-stub http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_International_Computer an then translate it!

2007-02-02 Thread Jon Phillips
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 11:03 +0100, Robert Michel wrote: > Salve Michael! > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2007, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > > > > I also never realized that FIC is not just some little startup > > > That makes it a lot more likely that they will still be around for V2 to > > > get > > > re

Re: What more to add to http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/GPRS ? Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Mikko Rauhala
pe, 2007-02-02 kello 19:14 +0100, Robert Michel kirjoitti: > BTW do you think two low quality phone connecitons would be possible > via 9600 Baud? Pushing it, but if you don't run it over IP and rather have the same software on both ends of the data link and therefore cut out all but the most simp

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Mikko Rauhala
pe, 2007-02-02 kello 18:28 +0100, Paul Wouters kirjoitti: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Mikko J Rauhala wrote: > > > Of course, you can make a GSM data call (I presume) and thus reserve > > That's what www.cryptophone.de does to avoid latency issues. Some networks > block mobile to mobile data calls thou

What more to add to http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/GPRS ? Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Paul! Paul Wouters schrieb am Freitag, den 02. Februar 2007 um 18:13h: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Robert Michel wrote: > > > Does anybody has experiances/ideas about Voice over GPRS? > > See: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rc277/globe02.pdf Thank you, I direcly put this good source into our wiki :)

Re: between 300ms and 10s - wow that is asyncron :) Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070202 18:58]: > Salve Andreas! > > Andreas Kostyrka schrieb am Freitag, den 02. Februar 2007 um 18:44h: > > Looks nice, BUT you don't have always a 14400 bps uplink. > But even iax2 has a huge overhead - mybe still potential to > optimize the protocol? > >

Re: What would be a realistic but challenging level for Bryce announced trophy money for video playback on the Neo1973? Re: h.264 format is now open?

2007-02-02 Thread Bryce Leo
Haha well then lets modify this a bit. I think your $50 has to go to somebody of the core developer team: I'm goinig to have to disagree I'll give that money to the developer who does it first and infact i'll send out an email to the dev list as a bounty. Which resolution and frames/s should

Re: Encrypting voice comunications..

2007-02-02 Thread Tim Newsom
So, though possibly inefficient, we could not some how take the analog audio stream, do some predictable and reversible encoding/encrypting then convert into sounds again.. Like doing base64 encoding for binary data.. In that way we are still sending audio information and letting it get encod

between 300ms and 10s - wow that is asyncron :) Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Andreas! Andreas Kostyrka schrieb am Freitag, den 02. Februar 2007 um 18:44h: > Looks nice, BUT you don't have always a 14400 bps uplink. But even iax2 has a huge overhead - mybe still potential to optimize the protocol? > > So my question would be how much delay will bring a GPRS > > con

RE: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Crane, Matthew
With a point to point link what would be the minimal software stack needed? There's only so much CPU, might it be more appropriate to use a relatively lightweight process to rx/tx+encrypt/decrypt the data? In any case, the idea of an open encryption standard for cell phone communications is pre

Crytped calls through 9600Baud GSM-data connections?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Paul! On Fri, 02 Feb 2007, Paul Wouters wrote: > that's why our firmware will include both IPsec (with NAT-Traversal) > as well as OpenVPN. If that wouldn't work often enough, we'll try and > do encapsulation over port 443. Did you discussed OTP, using less mobile device batterypower to add

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070202 18:26]: > Incoming bandwidth: 14.5 Kbps > 0.01 Mbps > 1.81 KBps > 0 MBps > > Outgoing bandwidth: 14.5 Kibps > 0.01 Mbps > 1.81 KBps > 0 MBps > Total bandwidth (incoming and outgoing): 29 Kbps > 0.03 Mbps > 3.63 KBps > 0 MBps > > 29Kbps = 3.6

Re: Encrypting voice comunications..

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Mikko J Rauhala wrote: > No. The GSM processor does its own audio de- and encoding, and its And echo cancellation. When using any VOIP app, you will need to put in your own echo cancelation code. I listened to the Windows Mobile 5 Skype client, and even that was pretty awfull.

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > > AFAIK, only T-Mobile did that, and they removed that clause a few months > > ago. > > Eplus does have that clause too. Ahh, not too familiar with the German markets. > Plus running standard VoIP protocols like SIP and friends over a NAT > firewall

Ok I should write _asyncrone_ Voice over GPRS in the subject from the beginning ... ; )

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Andreas! On Fri, 02 Feb 2007, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > * Paul Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070202 18:18]: > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded > > wrote: > > > Also, most data plans specifically prohibit VoIP usage > > > and may even prevent it techni

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Terrence,*! Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded schrieb am Freitag, den 02. Februar 2007 um 17:52h: > VoIP calls typically require approx. 120 kbit/s *each* > direction, that's 240 kbit/s for a two-way conversation. http://www.asteriskguru.com/tools/bandwidth_calculator.php

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Mikko J Rauhala wrote: > Of course, you can make a GSM data call (I presume) and thus reserve That's what www.cryptophone.de does to avoid latency issues. Some networks block mobile to mobile data calls though. > (Also, _this_ is how you can accomplish a proper encrypted phon

Re: Encrypting voice comunications..

2007-02-02 Thread Mikko J Rauhala
On pe, 2007-02-02 at 09:06 -0800, Tim Newsom wrote: > If we have access to the mic and speakers while a call is in process, > and we have the ability to record conversations etc... Where does the > processor sit in that chain? Can we consume the voice, encrypt it and > feed an encrypted datast

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Paul Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070202 18:16]: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Robert Michel wrote: > > > Does anybody has experiances/ideas about Voice over GPRS? > > See: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rc277/globe02.pdf > > They discuss tcp as well as udp performance over GPRS. > > > How long is the dela

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Paul Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070202 18:18]: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded wrote: > > > Also, most data plans specifically prohibit VoIP usage > > and may even prevent it technically. > > AFAIK, only T-Mobile did that, and they removed that clause

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded wrote: > Also, most data plans specifically prohibit VoIP usage > and may even prevent it technically. AFAIK, only T-Mobile did that, and they removed that clause a few months ago. Paul __

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Robert Michel wrote: > Does anybody has experiances/ideas about Voice over GPRS? See: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rc277/globe02.pdf They discuss tcp as well as udp performance over GPRS. > How long is the delay? It could maybe used for asyncron > voice communication Talk2Talk (

Re: Sink oullook calender?

2007-02-02 Thread Jeff Andros
the openmoko uses syncml for it's synchronization protocol. This is really cool since there's several sync clients for just about anything you need, (local and OTA sync). I ran a quick google search for google syncml and got several plugins/clients back on the first page, so I think you should b

Encrypting voice comunications..

2007-02-02 Thread Tim Newsom
If we have access to the mic and speakers while a call is in process, and we have the ability to record conversations etc... Where does the processor sit in that chain? Can we consume the voice, encrypt it and feed an encrypted datastream back out to the gsm module which would transmit it and

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Mikko J Rauhala
On pe, 2007-02-02 at 11:37 -0500, ROB wrote: > 1kb/s isn't going to get you too much audio. Try encoding an mp3 at > 1kb/s to see how audible that would be. I think you'd be looking at > something more along the lines of 32-64kb/s to get anything that you > could understand. mp3 isn't designed

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Knight Walker
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:37:59AM -0500, ROB wrote: > Bit rate=sampling rate x bit depth > > 1kb/s isn't going to get you too much audio. Try encoding an mp3 at > 1kb/s to see how audible that would be. I think you'd be looking at > something more along the lines of 32-64kb/s to get anything th

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070202 17:56]: > VoIP calls typically require approx. 120 kbit/s *each* > direction, that's 240 kbit/s for a two-way conversation. > > UMTS gives you 384 kbit/s if you're lucky. Most of the time > it's more like 150 kbit/s,

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve ROB! ROB schrieb am Freitag, den 02. Februar 2007 um 11:37h: > Bit rate=sampling rate x bit depth > > 1kb/s isn't going to get you too much audio. I wrote 1KB/s and I meant 1kB/s, or 8000 baud. Already tested quality=0 speex and iax succsessful. Maybe I did something wrong but this giv

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded
VoIP calls typically require approx. 120 kbit/s *each* direction, that's 240 kbit/s for a two-way conversation. UMTS gives you 384 kbit/s if you're lucky. Most of the time it's more like 150 kbit/s, so VoIP will only work with very poor quality. Also, most data plans specifically prohibit VoIP u

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070202 17:06]: > Salve! > > Does anybody has experiances/ideas about Voice over GPRS? > How long is the delay? It could maybe used for asyncron > voice communication Talk2Talk (instead of pushing a button) The lag with E+ for GPRS/UMTS is at best in my experie

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Krzysztof Kajkowski
2007/2/2, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Salve! Does anybody has experiances/ideas about Voice over GPRS? How long is the delay? I heard it could be pretty lond delay (like a second or more). It is hard to use programs such as skype. Walkie-talkie like solution is very interesting, th

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread ROB
Bit rate=sampling rate x bit depth 1kb/s isn't going to get you too much audio. Try encoding an mp3 at 1kb/s to see how audible that would be. I think you'd be looking at something more along the lines of 32-64kb/s to get anything that you could understand. It might be easier to make a phone c

Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve! Does anybody has experiances/ideas about Voice over GPRS? How long is the delay? It could maybe used for asyncron voice communication Talk2Talk (instead of pushing a button) In Germany did three Prepaid Provider published new Tariffs with 0.24Euro/MB. German pages: http://teltarif.de/arch/

Re: LiarLiar, software access to voice data

2007-02-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 02 February 2007 14:28:09 Crane, Matthew wrote: > That's definitely a cool idea. But will the kernel and/or user-space > software be able to access and modify the transmitted/recived sound > channel? I think it would also be pretty neat if it was possible to > lightly encrypt the voice,

Re: LiarLiar, software access to voice data

2007-02-02 Thread Sven Neuhaus
Crane, Matthew wrote: > That's definitely a cool idea. But will the kernel and/or user-space > software be able to access and modify the transmitted/recived sound > channel? Yes, http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-December/000733.html confirms access to the microphone, I'm sure the

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-02-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 02 February 2007 14:13:32 Dave Crossland wrote: > I imagine that low bandwidth proxies will emerge for all kinds of > protocols both as the developed-world power users like OpenMoko owners > want cheap omnipresence, and as the developing world wants to make > best use of very limited band

RE: LiarLiar, software access to voice data

2007-02-02 Thread Crane, Matthew
That's definitely a cool idea. But will the kernel and/or user-space software be able to access and modify the transmitted/recived sound channel? I think it would also be pretty neat if it was possible to lightly encrypt the voice, making the phone the open equivalent of some much more expensive d

Re: LiarLiar

2007-02-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 02 February 2007 13:52:53 Sven Neuhaus wrote: > Running LiarLiar (a voice stress analysis tool, > http://liarliar.sourceforge.net/ ) on the Neo1973 would be a nice hack, > analysing your counterpart on the other end of the line. I'm not sure the > phone is fast enough to do the fast fouri

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-02-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 02/02/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 02 February 2007 13:43:52 Dave Crossland wrote: > For the recipients who are on Jabber (such as Jabber conversant > phones) this is a good idea. For everyone else, MMS as the least > preferred but available option is quite neccessa

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-02-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 02 February 2007 13:43:52 Dave Crossland wrote: > For the recipients who are on Jabber (such as Jabber conversant > phones) this is a good idea. For everyone else, MMS as the least > preferred but available option is quite neccessary. Tho I do wonder how much GPRS traffic it would genera

LiarLiar

2007-02-02 Thread Sven Neuhaus
Running LiarLiar (a voice stress analysis tool, http://liarliar.sourceforge.net/ ) on the Neo1973 would be a nice hack, analysing your counterpart on the other end of the line. I'm not sure the phone is fast enough to do the fast fourier transform in realtime, though... -Sven

Re: Is vim included out-of-the-box or shall i port?

2007-02-02 Thread Rod Whitby
[Removed the [EMAIL PROTECTED] cross-post] Richi Plana wrote: > Oh, i agree that a text editor would be useful on the device given that > most options probably won't have a GUI to control them through (at least > at the start), but I'm sure the phone already has a text editor > component and likel

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-02-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 01/02/07, Paul Jimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think a good Jabber client could totally supplant MMS For the recipients who are on Jabber (such as Jabber conversant phones) this is a good idea. For everyone else, MMS as the least preferred but available option is quite neccessary. So

What would be a realistic but challenging level for Bryce announced trophy money for video playback on the Neo1973? Re: h.264 format is now open?

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Bryce,*! Some video information given by Sean in november: http://www.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-November/000340.html On Fri, 02 Feb 2007, Bryce Leo wrote: > >Yeah, for management. Actual Video decoding is done by a dedicated > >chip, Broadcom BCM2722. > > Good find. I guess i

Let us un-stub http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_International_Computer an then translate it!

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Michael! On Fri, 02 Feb 2007, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > > I also never realized that FIC is not just some little startup > > That makes it a lot more likely that they will still be around for V2 to get > > released, and for V1 to actually work. > > I'm kind of surprised that FIC mean