Re: Free Runner price vs Meizu M8 price
On Tue Jun 10, 2008 at 08:38:30PM +0200, Ortwin Regel wrote: > There are cheaper contracts if you don't get a phone with them in > Germany. No idea what the situation in the US is. (It's probably > godawful... :-/) Personally, I use a prepaid SIM card so I pay no > monthly fees at all. Much cheaper for me than any contract. So for me > the price advantage over an iPhone is very real. although both vapor, iRiver and Meizu both have phones in the pipeline at least iRivers 'runs linux' as well. apple is nowhere near as cost competitive as either of them.. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)
> Since you're the guy working the electric schematics of the device, > can I ask you to consider an FM radio receiver in future iterations, > please? GTA04 or 05 or whatever. I believe, from a previous post to > the list, that this is a particularly popular mobile-phone feature in > India, but my Sony-Ericsson P990i also has this, and I was using it > today - it's really much underrated. and HDMI or DisplayPort not buying a 'phone' here until it can replace my desktop/notebook, this is the only thing missing (Nvidia's platform has it) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
atomic clock / radio-receiver chip
> And portable thermonuclear bomb. Just in case. (Well, phone is already > hand interface to several orbital atomic clocks, isn't it?) the atomic clock(s) arent orbiting the earth, to receive the one in Colorado (or Hawaii, 3330 in Canada..), youd need some chip like Si4735 http://www.silabs.com/public/documents/marcom_doc/mcoll/Broadcast/Radio_Tuners/en/Si473x_Presentation.pdf their doc shows ipods, phones, and handheld PCs. has anyone besides the DSP-Rado people actually put this in _any_ product, let alone a phone? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
