Re: wlan and voip

2006-11-16 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:06, Hannes Hauswedell wrote: Thanks for your interest in OpenMoko. At this point we really cannot commit to a timeframe. Just understand that it's a key feature we'd love to see. We are just not willing to put binary modules in our kernel. So as of now,

Re: wlan and voip

2006-11-16 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 16 November 2006 11:33, Alessandro Iurlano wrote: I'm not an hardware hacker but a simple google search showed me this website that contains a list of wifi chipsets and their driver status on linux. I hope it helps. http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_alles.php?

Re: A marketing angle

2006-11-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:34, Ben F-W wrote: Taking account of this, I wonder if it would be possible/useful to be able to 'skin' the user interface? Not just in a visual way, but so that people could switch their phone from operating like a Nokia to operating like a Motorola to a Sony

Re: google earth - [was: Re: Another simple GPS+GPRS idea]

2006-11-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 27 November 2006 16:45, Jeff Andros wrote: the Google maps website does list a linux version, but it lists a pentium class processor as a system requirement, I wonder if we could get google to do a custom compile onto our hardware, seems like their style Google Maps is a webapp no?

Re: Open Moko - GPL?

2006-11-29 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:16, Stuart Gray wrote: available, as I am used to getting my phones free on contract, and spending $350 on a phone I plan to upgrade not too long after would just be mad.Cant wait though, I am really excited for it. Hopefully all my hopes turn into reality.

Re: Light sensor

2006-12-01 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 01 December 2006 02:03, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: What do you mean doesn't come for free? I for one would expect it to need more power than just sit there in idle mode? pgpaDV9SWeyFG.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ OpenMoko community

Re: Is it portable? [scanned]

2006-12-05 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 19:02, Robert Michel wrote: Focusing first on helping FIC to have sucsess will be IMHO more fruitfull than hacking OpenMoko on the HTC Hermes. AFAIK, FIC and HTC are said to be sister companies. (Which strikes me as somewhat weird considering just how closed HTC is

Re: emergency call - fallback to call without SIM Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2006-12-15 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 15 December 2006 20:23, Robert Michel wrote: Without SIM card is the keyword. There are people got into trouble, especialy in the mountains and they didn't made an emergency call because their GSM network was not strong enough. Only a few GSM user does know that then it help to

Opensource Linux SDIO Stack

2006-12-19 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
MontaVista and WLAN (wireless LAN) chipset maker Atheros have founded an open source project aimed at enabling Linux to more easily support a wide variety of SDIO peripherals, including WLAN cards, bluetooth radios, hard drives, modems, GPS recievers, DTV tuners, cameras, voice recorders,

Re: Internal flash size

2006-12-20 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 15:31, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: It is easy to find 2GB usb sticks on market for 20 EUR. FIC Phone will get 64MB (preliminary specs)... Can it get more? 512MB or more with good partitioning (/ + /home) would be nice I would second that request. 1GB or even 2GB

Re: Internal flash size

2006-12-20 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:27, Paul Bohme wrote: Remember that this is still a phone.. Your general 'user' to whom this needs to appeal will probably be hard pressed to fill the flash provided. Every penny counts in parts on devices like this, and that much of an increase with little

Re: Regarding hardware specs...

2006-12-26 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 25 December 2006 17:40, Kenshin wrote: Can i raise some hoppes for this: Obviously you didn't read the specs very well, as the following is already done: - great audio capture (use it as a recorder) (not sure, but the specs should make it possible at least) - big screen size ( 2,

Survey of WiFi vendors Opensource Relations

2006-12-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/293/ Atmel,Ralink and Realtek seem pretty open about open source platforms. Atmel especially seems very interested in embedded system design wins and so does Realtek. pgp9zqEs3VHtG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Happy New Year!

2006-12-31 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 01 January 2007 00:53, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: * Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070101 00:32]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now where can I order a neo1973? ;) I second that ;) plz add me to. Koen beat me by about 8min ;) Hopefully, January 2007 is not a

Re: Few questions regarding phone

2007-01-09 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 21:42, Pranav Desai wrote: Hello All, I have been following the list and seem like a very interesting project and I very excited about getting this device. I do have a few questions: - Will this be a ready to use phone, out of the box ? as long as i have a sim

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

2007-01-10 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 10:20, Howard Lowndes wrote: I'll happily admit to being totally ignorant about any matters phone to paraphrase Gilbert and Sullivan, but I am interested in this project. I assume it is being designed for the US market, but what other markets will it suit? I'm

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

2007-01-10 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 10:06, 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. The latter is quite cool. I'll tell you more about it soon. Plase let it contain a battery powered mini USB wifi

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 USB

Re: I'd like to see a Neo1973 running without battery, but USB powered :) Re: Kingmax announces microSDHC 4G card

2007-01-16 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 17:17, Robert Michel wrote: I would find the need for reboots not smart. The wish that the Neo would run also USB powered would only help on the road, when I have a battery powered USB hub or any other USB power source - only for switching the cards? I doubt

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 18:51, Engin Erenturk wrote: Hi, I'm Engin; I'm a game developer from Istanbul/Turkey. the thing i wonder most about open openmoko is the gaming oportunities. as i read from mails today, it will have a 640x480 vga screen. Is there any predictions about the

Re: Neither iPhone or OpenMoko are revolutionary

2007-01-17 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 18 January 2007 00:09, Renaissance Man wrote: The reason is neither of them have VoIP via WiFi. Who do I talk to ask them to include WiFi connectivity with the OpenMoko? I'll sell my body parts to get hold of such a device. Why does no organisation (even Apple) seem to get it

Re: Neither iPhone or OpenMoko are revolutionary

2007-01-17 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 18 January 2007 07:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what it is about the guy who posted this thread, but I really think that he's got some sort of talent for getting people talking. I posted a similar idea only yesterday that received no replies. Could someone brief me

Re: Fwd: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-18 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 18 January 2007 06:12, Alexander McLeay wrote: What sort of speed does this give you? Is it actually good enough for It's assumed Bluetooth 2.0 EDR will allow about 2mbit. VoIP over Bluetooth IP to be practical? Plenty fast for that. I think Speex can run on as little as

Re: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-18 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 18 January 2007 03:25, Renaissance Man wrote: your device is intelligent enough it will seamlessly swap between the two, using WiFi when it's available and GSM when it's not (and vice versa), just as Truphone does. Seamless swapping needs the carriers' help. And they won't do it

Re: Neither iPhone or OpenMoko are revolutionary

2007-01-18 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 18 January 2007 10:01, Renaissance Man wrote: The problem with the Nokia E Series, N80s, and Windows smartphones is that they're either very expensive and/or they don't actually make VoIP via WiFi easy. The only organisation that seems to get it is Truphone. You can take their

Re: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-18 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 18 January 2007 09:54, Renaissance Man wrote: Seamless swapping needs the carriers' help. And they won't do it for free, rest assured. Already being done. See http://truphone.com Doesn't really say how it works. An all SIP solution doesnt really sound like it could ever be

Re: Neither iPhone or OpenMoko are revolutionary

2007-01-18 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 18 January 2007 21:08, Attila Csipa wrote: Ah, I thought we were talking about switching _during_ a call (as wifi is much more sensitive to terrain configuration - say moving away from a window, loosing LOS to the AP, etc). Isn't UMA supposed to be able to handle that?

Re: Idea: (Networked) media player

2007-01-23 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:13, Marco Lohse wrote: Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Tuesday 23 January 2007 09:18, Marco Lohse wrote: 1) Is it possible to get a device for evaluation now? Maybe you could qualify for developer phase (which means 11.2., otherwise 11.3.) About developer phase

Re: development model

2007-01-23 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 11:14, Tehn Yit Chin wrote: 2) somehow make the device networkable. In this scenario, we can NFS mount a shared directory on our desktop machine from the target. With this setup, we can cross compile the application, copy it to the NFS mount, and immediately execute

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-24 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 12:33, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On 1/24/07 11:41 AM, kkr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know more about price and precision of the accelerometers's chips on the market now? About US$3. Are they good enough to twice integrate the acceleration data (which

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-24 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:15, Dave Crossland wrote: I feel it is misleading to describe code distributed in the 1960s and 70s as 'free software' - because software freedom was not recognised or enshrined. Ok, now that's just being ridiculous. And besides, the BSDL predates the GPLv1 by

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-24 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:04, Tim Newsom wrote: For GeoPointing to work right, you would also need an electronic compass module in the phone I think that's actually the only thing you really need for it to work. Not sure how an accelerometer would help figuring out what direction

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-24 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:55, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: The accelerometer can allow you to know what directions the phone went, and 3d orientation (rotations and stuff). The compass, would just be for calibration, because you can trust them all them time (just put a compass

Re: celluar data network speed comparison WAS: Re: verizon and openmoko

2007-01-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 26 January 2007 02:32:53 Todd W wrote: OpenMoko is definitely another great tool for the toolbox, but just so everyone knows, there are already much more advanced wireless data interfaces available. Comparing EVDO to GSM is like comparing modern trucks to steam locomotives. There's

Re: WiFi

2007-01-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 26 January 2007 06:35:41 Richi Plana wrote: I guess it's just as well that the first version didn't contain WiFi as the specs for 802.11n seems all but finished (http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9415304733.html). Hopefully Intel and Atheros come out with embeddable chips and release

Re: WiFi

2007-01-26 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 26 January 2007 09:31:18 Richi Plana wrote: True that. I can't think of an application right now for 11n on a phone. But then again, someone said 640KB of RAM was sufficient for the desktop. :) Sure, but unlike with DOS, there's nothing stopping the devs from adding N when we need

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 26 January 2007 18:41:50 Tim Newsom wrote: yes,  accelerometers measure acceleration.  The first derivative of acceleration is velocity.  Ok Steve. I grant you that the first derivative of acceleration is velocity... I don't think so. The first derivative of VELOCITY is

Re: addon sleeves / casings - wish

2007-01-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:35:30 polz wrote: I know it's late, but perhaps, just perhaps, the moulds could still be modified, just before the first phones are produced... On a related note - will it be possible to buy the telephone (addon) casings alone, without any electronics ? I would

Re: GNU discussion

2007-01-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Saturday 27 January 2007 16:10:43 Declan Naughton wrote: But I prefer copyleft - the idea of using the law to try and make sure freedom doesn't go away, to giving others the freedom to take it away. If others take code under the BSDL and put it into a closed system, freedom doesn't go away

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Saturday 27 January 2007 15:58:46 Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote: (You've let us know you're not a developer; it's becoming clear you have no greater level of understanding of legal issues.) I won't comment on this as IANAL. This is entirely right (albeit IANAL either). For example, if

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Saturday 27 January 2007 17:23:14 Renaissance Man wrote: It's not a matter of should. A person DOES have the freedom to run proprietary software on their open phone if they choose, but that freedom, if acted on, has consequences (called an externality in economics). No that's not what is

Re: Mass Storage For Phones

2007-01-31 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:15:28 Robert Michel wrote: But comparing this $85 with the price of every other component in the Neo1973 makes clear, that it is not only the matter of size why it is not so likly to have such a hdd included in a smartphone. Furthermore, 8G flash USB sticks

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 generate

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 fourier

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

Re: Handy application ideas

2007-02-04 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Saturday 03 February 2007 22:34:10 Tomasz Zielinski wrote: 2007/2/2, kkr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...Because, I presume that the thief will do very quickly a hard reset. There is no such thing like restore to factory default in Neo1973. What you load to flash memory, will remain there. That's

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:56:37 Sergio Bessa wrote: What if we could have Jabber support in OpenMoko and use some sort of transport/relay to connect to legacy protocols? Don't you think this would work? This way wwe only needed one protocol implementation. Sure. Many of the public

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:06:08 you wrote: It woud be great to keep a clean, well known messaging protokoll at the base. For reducing the bandwidth usage, I would have two ideas in mind: - gzip the xml communication (like soap Web-Services over HTTP do). - Use the binary

Free maps after all?

2007-02-08 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/02/08/nokia_frees_smart2go/ pgpJJrCHk8CB1.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Various questions ideas: Maemo porting, package management.

2007-02-08 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 08 February 2007 18:06:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Almost certainly. At the very least there is a microcontroller or other hardware to handle the USB protocol and to do the keyboard scanning. Unless someone cleverly makes a self-powered keyboard. Anyone know of one? All Bluetooth

Re: Is is it possible to make this Truphone compatible?

2007-02-12 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 12 February 2007 16:16:04 Shridhar Jayanthi wrote: with a WiFi card. But I was wondering if it's possible to make a IP stack over bluetooth, to use the OpenMoko. Besides needing a bluethooth hotspot, is there any technical reason for which this wouldn't work? You can use IP over

Re: Attaching accessories (was: OpenMoko Challenges

2007-02-13 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 13:05:30 Florent THIERY wrote: With the not-sexy-at-all battery powered usb hub, will a keyboard work easily? USB keyboard support in the kernel would be sufficient, right? As for keyboard, you can even use a self powered usb keyboard and not use any cabling at

Re: Attaching accessories (was: OpenMoko Challenges

2007-02-13 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 13:16:10 Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: As for keyboard, you can even use a self powered usb keyboard and not use any cabling at all. Obviously that should read Bluetooth instead of USB. pgpEhlkzZvHmn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: for german readers: FIC phones on the way

2007-02-21 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:06:25 Stefan Schmidt wrote: http://www.e28.com/e28mobile/mobile_e2861.htm http://www.e28.com/e28mobile/mobile_e2862.htm http://www.e28.com/e28mobile/mobile_e2881.htm The e2881 would be a perfect match for me if it could be made to run openmoko... It sounds

Re: Marketing fodder for Neo: FCC presentation

2007-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 22 February 2007 19:43:26 Sam Kome wrote: Yes, if the phone in question has been locked to another carrier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy_lock Still, nobody really forces you to buy SIM locked phone for all I know. If you want cheap phones, that is usually the price...

Re: FOSDEM OpenMoko talk now on video.google.com

2007-02-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 08:32:38 Rod Whitby wrote: With consumer electronics, you either buy now with the feature set you know at the price you know (and not complain when a better feature set is announced at a lower price the next day), or you wait forever as announcement after

Re: Fwd: OpenMoko workshop at ETel

2007-02-28 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 04:08:39 Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: CPU, dedicated Graphics Acceleration, AND Wifi?? If so, thats a hell of an upgrade after 3 months. The thing we can promise at this point is a faster CPU. We're still working on the WiFi stuff. Graphics acceleration is much later.

Re: Itch3: Anti-lost/theft protection

2007-02-28 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 15:09:47 Krzysztof Kajkowski wrote: 2007/2/28, Bartłomiej Zdanowski DRP AC2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. That's the solution! Let thief pay for data transmission :-) How about silently calling 0700 and othe highly price erotic phone lines? Improving on the idea:

Re: 'My Account' - a way to store information about the phones owner, so they can be reunited if it's lost.

2007-03-01 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 01 March 2007 13:52:16 Ian Stirling wrote: Briefly, a way for anyone with the phone to access a history of the phone (bought/sold status, reported as stolen, ...), a way for the user to set these as well as contact information for people to return the phone in some way. Thoughts?

Re: Itch3: Anti-lost/theft protection

2007-03-01 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 01 March 2007 14:20:32 Christian T. wrote: I have one unlocked phone and I'm changing between two SIMs (different providers) and somehow it seems to configure that automagically. I guess, the configuration is on the SIM. It's like that for all Austrian providers i tried. So at

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 05 March 2007 03:21:15 Florent THIERY wrote: Hey, great idea ! I'd be happy to use such a system. Yeah, it looks neat. I think I'd downscale the number of special chars though. I very much doubt you could actually read the characters on the Neo screen right now. But there's a

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 05 March 2007 11:34:47 Lars Hallberg wrote: Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You might need to look close... But the neo case have a hole for the nose for that special Clear yes, but also about 3 times smaller than on your desktop screen... purpose :-) Hopefully, You

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 05 March 2007 16:43:38 Florent THIERY wrote: For instance, type on a text input area; background (app) stays the same, the keyboard shows up, 80% transparent, but using optimized coloring (for instance, taking the exact negative of the background on every point), so that it's still

Re: AGPS - protocol specs?

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 08 March 2007 20:18:50 Ian Stirling wrote: A completely separate GPS unit, that is nearby, close in location, with almost the same position, ... Its only purpose is to measure the GPS coordinates - lat, long, time, from which can be derived the satellite signals sent to the neo.

Re: Idea: Protective Screen Foil

2007-03-09 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 09 March 2007 09:44:10 Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Good screen protector does not need changing. On Zaurus SL-5500 I have Brando protector, on Zaurus C760 another Brando and they both looks OK after few years of usage. With daily use and usually in my pocket, my P900 protectors looked

Re: Idea: Protective Screen Foil

2007-03-09 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 09 March 2007 13:15:34 Elrond wrote: Is it normal, that one has to open the case to reapply/replace it? Since they are usually after market products that are used by the end user that's not the usual way. It however means that you will always have a small edge on the screen where

Re: Idea: Protective Screen Foil

2007-03-09 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 09 March 2007 13:22:55 Ian Stirling wrote: It's normal that you try to cut it to the exact right size, and then have a horrible task both replacing and removing it. I have never had much issue with replacing and removing then, then again I bought some custom tailored ones...

Re: useability of phase 1 phones

2007-03-10 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Saturday 10 March 2007 12:22:37 Andreas Hochsteger wrote: I'm exactly in the same situation and would also like to know if at least calling, addressbook and writing/receiving SMS works. That was originally the plan AFAI understand, anyway. ___

Neo as SBC

2007-03-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
It just struck me that the Neo would be a nice SBC platform with basically zero development work on FICs part (possibly figure out what happens when you drop the GSM part but for some it might even be a plus to have it ;). Some would obviously cry about not having any Ethernet but for a spin

Re: Crossroads

2007-03-13 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 18:49:17 dimitris wrote: Sean, given the uncertainty surrounding Wifi drivers, would an externally-accessible SDIO slot be a better step for the next hw revision? I would very much welcome a standard SD slot anyhow. SD cards are available in bigger sizes than MicroSD.

Re: Crossroads

2007-03-13 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 19:22:08 you wrote: Don't know how much re-work that would require, but I really like that idea. I already have 2GB and 4GB SD cards. I'm not overly thrilled about having to use a different format. SDIO has one disadvantage: the cards are rather pricey. The Spectec

Fwd: Re: Crossroads

2007-03-13 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
[the reply to issue bit me another time ;)] On Tuesday 13 March 2007 17:51:00 Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Marvell has some nice for larger devices (the 8388). But we need one specifically for mobile phones (like the 8686). If somebody can help us find the right vendor, we'll give you a free

Re: I know why I dislike anonymous participants on mailinglists :( (

2007-03-14 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:07:25 Jonathon Suggs wrote: Andreas The wap APN does provide generic internet access. But the difference is that is uses a NAT'ed private IP address. Therefore you probably can't use it with a VPN (you would need PDA Connect if that is a requirement for you).

Re: Call-for-WiFi (was Re: Crossroads)

2007-03-14 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:34:48 Harald Welte wrote: I've added this (and some more info) to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/WiFi_support_in_OpenMoko I've added a link to http://www.zcomax.com/1mbfile/G%20product/XG-880M_specification%20.pdf to the wiki. prplague on #openmoko is working on

Re: Can OpenMoko Make Coffee? - SoC Project Proposal

2007-03-19 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 19 March 2007 20:44:55 Ben Burdette wrote: A custom remote control app for the moko would be best, but a web browser interface would be fine too. IIRC there's a few Amarok scripts that expose a webinterface. Or you could look into Bemused. pgpFWOjuWX9n7.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Regarding encryption on openmoko...

2007-03-21 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 02:11:13 Tim Newsom wrote: After reading about truecrypt on slashdot I think that could pose as a suitable start to the encryption solution... At least as a starting place to build a framework on and test out some ideas. I don't really see why one would want to use

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-21 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 21:58:27 Jonathon Suggs wrote: My challenge is just to think bigger. Think how this could be incorporated to work with *any* phone. Then you can have a much larger group of people to brainstorm, test, and bugfix. We have enough protocols and standards to support.

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-23 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 22 March 2007 20:48:44 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: It's not necessary (which was one of my goals) -- if the pefs is mounted, any time the application reads or writes an encrypted file the Right Thing Happens. An encryption-aware application can request its databases be saved encrypted;

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-23 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 23 March 2007 17:17:50 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: avoid that [1]) and tell the apps to either use the encrypted tree or not? Then any app can be made to use the encryption features by virtue of providing it with proper paths. Yes, but I want to be able to have both an encrypted

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-23 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 23 March 2007 18:01:09 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: ~/file1 and ~/encrypted/file2 seems a lot easier to implement AND use to me... Implement, yes (since it's already been done). Use? I don't think so. You can actually use it right now, with almost every app (except for those broken

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Sunday 25 March 2007 01:16:46 Clare Johnstone wrote: Dear all, This frightens me in my role as mother, grandmother etc, i.e. a representative of the public to which you hope to sell this phone. Essentially any laser device powerful enough to be useful has no place in a home which may ever

Re: Adapter for MicroSD Card

2007-03-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 17:00:37 Jonathon Suggs wrote: Will there be a standard SD card adapter for reading/writing to the included microSD card from a PC? I'm getting ready to purchase a card reader and wanted to know if I also needed to purchase an adapter. If so, were can you buy just

Re: Audio I/O questions

2007-03-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 00:52:20 Robert Michel wrote: Ahh.. I can hear it with the Neo1973 headset as well, wenn I pull out the headset for 0,7mm - mybe my 2,5 mm 4 pin jack is not accurat enough. Not strictly what you asked, but working adapter jacks for Moto V360 (which as I understand

Re: Blacklist/whitelists

2007-04-06 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 06 April 2007 15:56:02 Martin Raißle wrote: actually i'm not sure if you can block text messages ... maybe someone knows better .. . Well obviously the phone would receive them, but you could easily have some rules whether they should be displayed or immediately discarded after

Re: pimlico

2007-04-15 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Sunday 15 April 2007 21:14:13 Esra Kummer wrote: They use gtk+ so i thought that would interest some of you. Note that OpenedHand already works on OpenMoko software AND even has OpenMoko screenshots... pgpxs0dRqfsQR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Some light ahead...

2007-04-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 01:51:45 Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Oh and Imre Kaloz gets a freed phone, too. Thanks for being the first to tell us about Atheros. We're almost for sure going to use their AR6K chipset in our next product. I just have to ask: is there any broad schedule / specs for the

Re: Audio Jack 2.5 mm

2007-04-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 11:21:05 t3st3r wrote: These adapters are popular up to some degree due to some portable devices using 2.5 mm jacks, but still this adds some headache with finding such adapter.That's not fair, at least for me. You mean like the trouble of going to ebay and order

Re: How many FOSS developers users Worldwide?

2007-05-12 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Saturday 12 May 2007 11:07:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Community! Hopefully you guys can help me. I'm trying to find the number of FOSS developers and users worldwide for some marketing related presentations but just can't seem to find any solid numbers. It would also be very

Re: [SVHMPC] concept phone with only a touchscreen for UI

2007-06-05 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 15:16:30 Thomas Gstädtner wrote: You are right, and that was before some years. They used this concept in the whole P-Series except the newest one (P990i) afaik. For all I can tell, my P900 uses REAL buttons pushing them makes nothing come out of the back of the flip,

Re: cellphone-sized X86 PC motherboard potential OpenMoko platform?

2007-06-10 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Sunday 10 June 2007 23:10:56 Thomas Gstädtner wrote: ARM9 Chips are under 10 million, VIA C7 about 25 million, Intel Core2Duo about 300 million, IBM Power6 800 million. ARM9 is not comparable to C7 (C3 might be somewhere around that) which is not in the same league as Core2 which again is

Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 11 June 2007 19:00:42 Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: I totally agree with your points. Please keep in mind that this was our first design. And that we are using an ID design that simply wasn't made for what this project has become. It was originally designed for a completely different usage

Re: standard API for linux phones?

2007-06-12 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 08:19:34 Paul A. Lambert wrote: compatible this group is at least in philosophy. The participation is closed, the forum allows patented code (as long as the license is non-discriminatory). Even with these issues, I'd still be very interested in seeing what they

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 14 June 2007 13:21:36 Jim Thompson wrote: parts on them... and the software is mostly done too! This is the only worrisome thing to me. Nobody has seen the software. Uhm the SVN is public and people actively run the software in qemu? pgpcczpM28B9b.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-15 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 14 June 2007 23:45:29 Jonathon Suggs wrote: Well as far as we know (no *official* word) the models (GTA-01) that you have actually are vaporware as far as we are concerned since they are not going to be mass producing them in favor of rolling out the GTA-02's. Which assuming GTA-02

Re: New wishlist item: Side-mounted touch strip sensor

2007-06-19 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 11:39:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an idea which was floated on the SVHMPC list a few months ago. The only possible issue is those people who are left-handed. Perhaps a strip on each side would be the best way to go. :-) I think the HTC S620 has something like

Re: Clarification Rant

2007-06-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 01:12:18 Ryan Prior wrote: I'm in the same situation. I need a phone, no question. The Neo 1973 is the phone I want, no question. The question is this: will the Neo1973 with WiFi be available by the time I cannot live without a phone for any longer? How about getting

Re: New Oceans

2007-06-30 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Saturday 30 June 2007 18:39:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 to this unbundled approach. Also maybe add replacement touchscreen as this is probably #1 part most likely to get busted? Another vote for the unbundled approach. A number of us hardware types are discussing various gadgets that

Re: [openmoko-announce] Re: New Oceans

2007-07-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Sunday 01 July 2007 06:25:06 Justin Mazzi wrote: How much bandwidth is needed? Do you have a system in place for selling the phone online? I think he refers to company bandwidth (i.e. resources to organize sales etc), not internet bandwidth pgpLMc3pj7aax.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Packet encryption possibilities?

2007-07-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 02 July 2007 01:56:09 Patrick Madden wrote: One of my research interests is encryption, and cell phones clearly need some help. Will hacking along these lines be possible in the upcoming release? The chip sets used in the phone might not expose enough to do this, and if it's not

Re: GPS can work stand-alone (Re: Advertising/hype)

2007-07-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 02 July 2007 12:31:00 Nick Johnson wrote: certainly what everything I've read has indicated. I thought it was also required to get a fix at all - that the AGPS chip offloads some of the harder work onto the network, as that's what a workmate told me - but if he's wrong, I'm glad. ;)

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