Re: Neo1973 Update!

2007-06-03 Thread Hans Cats

2007/6/3, Tomasz Zielinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


2007/6/3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:

 Phase 2 (GTA-02) will feature:
 -a 2D/3D-Graphics Accelerator
 -256MByte of Flash Memory
 -WiFi
 -updated battery: 1700mAh

Well, GTA-01 is now definitely dead on arrival. Without finished
software is hasn't any chance. My bet: it won't be sold at all, nobody
would buy it now. GTA-02 will be the first model on sale.

Am I correct?




It's not correct.
Harald Welte's blog [1] from yesterday says The first couple of hundred
GTA01Bv4 phnes have been produced by the FIC's mass production factory in
mainland china. I'll personally do QA on 10% of those phones throughout the
second week of June. We want to make sure we don't have any mishaps with our
first customers, do we?
Hans

[1] 
http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2007/06/02/#20070602-busy-busy-busyhttp://gnumonks.org/%7Elaforge/weblog/2007/06/02/#20070602-busy-busy-busy
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Re: Preorder

2007-05-08 Thread Hans Cats

2007/5/8, Pavlov Konstantin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:04:46PM +0400, Tigran Zakoyan wrote:
 +1 / Me too.
 I'm ready to pay all the expences of purchasing and delivery to Moscow.
Or,
 possibly, we could make it (payment and delivery issues) collectively
for
 potential pre-testers in Moscow/Russia.

 What to me, I am a rather expierenced IT/hardware support professional,
but
 without skills immideately in Linux/embedded.

 Will be glad to contribute to community, but my history of professional
 coding has stopped 12 years ago.

 Regards,
 Tigran Zakoyan.

I've heard someone had troubles on russian customs delivering nokia 770.

Is there any information that could disprove that?

I'm from Moscow too, btw.

--
Love is in the offing.
-- The Homicidal Maniac

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Have a look at
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Shipping_Notes#Russian_Federation
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Re: Release (WAS: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko)

2007-04-20 Thread Hans Cats

2007/4/20, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED]:



On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 08:26 +0200, Simon Norberg wrote:
 Hello,
 I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including
 what he thought about openmoko and his answer was:

 I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use non-free
 software for the GPS.

 I don't think the answer surprise anyone, but atleast we know for sure
 now. And i really hope we can replace the non-free GPS software as soon
 as possible or atleast before the public release.

On that note - Im an electronic engineer and is eagerly awaiting the
public release - or any release for that matter - I have a lot of DIY
plans for the device (maybe some work related).
So - any vague idea of a release date?




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Liane write something like end of april, beginning of may somewhere at the
wiki, but I can't find it again.

I'm beginning to wonder if the phase1 and phase1+ (hardware refresh) is
being merged? IMHO I don't see the point of using $350 on a phase1 phone in
may and then $??? on a phase1+ phone in june if there is a significant
update. More information about the hardwarerevisions would be great.

Hans
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Re: Facebook OpenMoko Group [SPAM]

2007-04-12 Thread Hans Cats

2007/4/12, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Except a lot of us already have accounts on Facebook.  I and several
others joined the group.  And now, every one of my friends will see
that I joined this grouped called OpenMoko and be curious as to what
it is.  Aka free publicity.

-Steven

On 4/12/07, Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Consider this as a spam because access requires account on facebook.


  Chris Fazekas napisaƂ(a):
 Hey everyone,

  I just got on with facebook (http://www.facebook.com) and I created an
  OpenMoko group
 (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2336942465) for
  fun and excitement.




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  Programmer
  Product Research  Development Department
  AutoGuard  Insurance Ltd.

  Omulewska 27 street
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  Poland
  phone +48 22 611 69 23
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We are a community aren't we?
And this is the community mailing list for OpenMoko, not the dev list or
anything more serious. So a informative post about a OpenMoko group on the
2nd largest social network on the internet is not spam IMHO.

Hans
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Re: Crossroads

2007-03-13 Thread Hans Cats

2007/3/13, dimitris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Intel's laptop-oriented chips have GPL drivers, albeit with binary
modules - but not *kernel* binary modules.

The 3945abg driver uses a binary userspace daemon and a binary on-chip
microcode:

http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/

The 2200bg/2945abg driver relies on a binary on-chip firmware:

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

The latter one is in the mainline kernel too.

D.


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A better option would be to use one of the chipset that has runtime firmware
that (even) OpenBSD is allowed to distribute.

You'll find a good article on the problems with binary firmwares on
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/293

For a round up:

atu (4) - Atmel AT76C50x USB IEEE 802.11b wireless network device
ral (4) - Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device (2nd
gen 802.11 Ralink)
rum (4) - Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device
zyd (4) - Zydas ZD1211 USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network deviceMarcin
Juszkiewicz already mentioned some of them.

Hans
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