Re: comparing Apples and Oranges $199 iPhone Freerunner GTA02

2008-06-11 Thread Rahul Joshi
Sigh. First off let me begin by saying I'm not comparing iPhone with FreeRunner (but cud have since they both are... um.. smart phones! its quite OK saying - apples with apples) To those hyper-exasperated-over-comparison ppl, raving mad about subsidies, even a $600 penalty struck iPhone is STILL a

Re: comparing Apples and Oranges $199 iPhone Freerunner GTA02

2008-06-11 Thread Rahul Joshi
Hehe... wrongly quoted. Forgiveness pls. Rahul J On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Andy Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, what's that got to do with anything I said? -- Andy / ScaredyCat ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: comparing Apples and Oranges $199 iPhone Freerunner GTA02

2008-06-10 Thread Rahul Joshi
3G iPhone coverage: http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008-coverage-roundup-the-iphone-3g-has-landed/ Its a good phone. extended Office functionality is missing though. $199 is just too good a price to beat. Rahul J On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Richard Reichenbacher [EMAIL

Re: comparing Apples and Oranges $199 iPhone Freerunner GTA02

2008-06-10 Thread Rahul Joshi
In comparison to other phones on similar subscription plans $199 is quite a steal. That never ending list of specs! I'm no appleguy but I gotta hand it to 3G. Rahul J On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Kalle Happonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I won't coment on the techical specs, but the

Re: Click Feedback?

2008-06-10 Thread Rahul Joshi
Will this mean I wont be able to hear an SMS arrive in background while I listen to music? Rahul J On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, we have been shipping pulseaudio (which is quite a CPU hog on embedded systems) on our rootfs for

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-08 Thread Rahul Joshi
The root of all evil it seems is glamo. Why not remove the damn thing and put in a new VGA hw which performs at the current CPU speeds? Is this something not doable? There was a topic about SDIO multiplexing sometime back and a hack to achieve this. Any headway on that? Rahul J On Sun, Jun 8,

Re: Illume / ASU on GTA01 - Video

2008-06-07 Thread Rahul Joshi
AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 03:36:10 +0530 Rahul Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: The question may have been beaten to death but the answers surely haven't been satisfactory. (except for this and Rasterman's.) The only conclusion one can

Re: Illume / ASU on GTA01 - Video

2008-06-06 Thread Rahul Joshi
... but basically - glamo. the bus bandwidth. :/ Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:40:01 +0530 Rahul Joshi[EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Good job for the video and hey openmoko people, GOOD JOB for the ASU, it's really nice, quite slow on the neo 1973

Re: Illume / ASU on GTA01 - Video

2008-06-06 Thread Rahul Joshi
CPU (which in turn still would not matter since the bus speed is limited) I have my doubts cleared now. Thanks. Next. Rahul J On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 June 2008 18:21:07 Rahul Joshi wrote: I cannot really argue now that you

Re: Illume / ASU on GTA01 - Video

2008-06-05 Thread Rahul Joshi
Good job for the video and hey openmoko people, GOOD JOB for the ASU, it's really nice, quite slow on the neo 1973 but it can be optimized i think and the FreeRunner should be faster. don't be so sure about that! :) Any reason why you have doubts? To a common person, the performance b/w 1973

Re: screenshots

2008-06-03 Thread Rahul Joshi
Don't know about other sites, but this one particularly comes to mind - http://monochromementality.com/index.php/blog/show/Day-One-Openmoko-Freerunner.html Rahul J On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, is there any page on the wiki that shows the current GUI state

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-03 Thread Rahul Joshi
+1 Just the kind of thing I want to hear. On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Robert Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. thomasg schrieb: And for those who think android will bring hardware support for new devices to the FOSS-world: forget about it. Google doesn't care about open source

Re: new iphone

2008-06-02 Thread Rahul Joshi
I completely see where you are coming from. Comparisons are inevitable and imo your points are mostly valid here. Android vs Openmoko vs iPhone OSX. You can take this comparison out of the community but you cannot escape it. I bet everyone have put their 2 cents to it already, and so some ppl are

Re: Private data protection.

2008-06-01 Thread Rahul Joshi
to isolate the phone from data here. Rahul J On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Ilja O. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Rahul Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no security expert but I'm pretty sure a lightweight 8 bit salt encryption (security guys?) can give any

Re: Private data protection.

2008-05-31 Thread Rahul Joshi
The very first thing a phone thief does is throw away the SIM. No SIM, No SMS, No protection.. erm.. destruction :) Rahul J On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vinc Duran wrote: I like the stolen phone sms message. Me too. When can I start erasing the

Re: Private data protection.

2008-05-31 Thread Rahul Joshi
] wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Rahul Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The very first thing a phone thief does is throw away the SIM. No SIM, No SMS, No protection.. erm.. destruction :) When my friends phone got stolen it happened the other way - some people. whose numbers were

Re: Private data protection.

2008-05-31 Thread Rahul Joshi
I'm no security expert but I'm pretty sure a lightweight 8 bit salt encryption (security guys?) can give any dektop pc software enough trouble to abort the attempt of trying to read a 256 meg worth of datacard, unless it really belongs to the director operations FBI ;) Rahul J On Fri, May 30,

Re: using the openmoko neo101 in mass storage mode

2008-05-30 Thread Rahul Joshi
A minimal ftp server providing anonymous access on $DOMAIN seems feasible especially if one wants a gui to operate on files without the hassle of client joining a domain, user/group permissions etc. (as in with samba?) OR Nothing would beat rsync/cwRsync on (maybe cygwin) if it were just about

Re: multi-tutch?

2008-05-30 Thread Rahul Joshi
, May 30, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Bastian Muck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, the problem ist that the Freerunner does not have a multitouch display. Some developers just try to make one out of it :-) Rahul Joshi schrieb: | If I am to understand

Re: multi-tutch?

2008-05-30 Thread Rahul Joshi
. On the brighter side it gives me even more joy to know that we can at least try to program our way into imitating multi-touch sensing on Neo. Rahul J On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Fr 30. Mai 2008 schrieb Rahul Joshi: And I thought I read somewhere

Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko

2008-05-29 Thread Rahul Joshi
Hi everyone, I'm a little (actually quite) late in this scene so pardon my ignorance on any goofy questions. I am a LAMP (and uhm ... Java) developer and had always wanted/waited for a dream box like this. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I came across openmoko 1 year late. But better late than

Re: Freerunner Sale Price in India - Official partner with Openmoko

2008-05-29 Thread Rahul Joshi
... congratulations! 15.4K is OMG!! Like they say, early bird gets the umm.. Neo! :) Rahul J On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Ganesha Krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Rahul Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 17:32:43