Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-05 Thread adrian cockcroft
The Freescale i.MX31 is a 534MHz ARM CPU with 3D graphics, and the full hardware specs are available for free download (hundreds of pages...). The homebrew mobile phone group are working on an open hardware module based on it, and we will port OpenMoko. This is taking place in "homebrew time" :-)

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
nitro wrote, on 2007-05-04 17:36: http://www.imgtec.com/PowerVR/products/Video/MVDA2/index.asp The bad point of this kind of chip are the limited amount of supported codecs, so this kind below would be better ; also because it's OpenGL|ES 2.0 compatible ;) "[...] Video processing for free,

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-04 Thread nitro
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: On 5/2/07, Casper van Donderen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.mesdigital.com/english/Products/product_mmsp2.asp I think this chip is pretty opensource since it is used in the GP2X I don't want to pay money to micro$oft for wma support, so I do _not_ wa

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-04 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 5/2/07, Casper van Donderen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.mesdigital.com/english/Products/product_mmsp2.asp I think this chip is pretty opensource since it is used in the GP2X I don't want to pay money to micro$oft for wma support, so I do _not_ want that chip. Anyway I guess it is

Re: Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-02 Thread Casper van Donderen
Yeah the iPod video has a video chip But on the internet I read that the iPhone might go with the Samsung s3c2460 chip, That chip has a hardware video decoder on it. But I think another option could be the MagicEyes MMSP2 chip used in the GP2X linux handheld, that has hardware video (up to Op

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-01 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Tue, 1 May 2007, el jefe delito wrote: > Video would be a bit essential I would think... if an iPod can do it, > shouldn't a mini computerphone be able to? The iPod video has a special chipset to handle video, if I'm not mistaken. ..Chuck.. -- http://www.quantumlinux.com Quantum Linux

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Becherer
On 5/1/07, Rory McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: el jefe delito said the following on 01/05/07 15:03: > Video would be a bit essential I would think... if an iPod can do it, > shouldn't a mini computerphone be able to? AFAIK the video iPods have hardware decoding chips, so the iPod isn't decod

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-01 Thread Rory McCann
el jefe delito said the following on 01/05/07 15:03: > Video would be a bit essential I would think... if an iPod can do it, > shouldn't a mini computerphone be able to? AFAIK the video iPods have hardware decoding chips, so the iPod isn't decoding the video. Which is why they can only play certa

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-01 Thread Ian Stirling
Steven ** wrote: The question is "how well does the Neo handle video?". There was some discussion on the list a while back about this. Sounds like playing/decoding video will tax the processor pretty hard. I'm sure someone will get it working, but I got the impression it would take some skill.

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-01 Thread el jefe delito
Video would be a bit essential I would think... if an iPod can do it, shouldn't a mini computerphone be able to? If we want to compete with other touch phones and smart phones, video playback is a strong selling point. Not that I know how to make it happen at all... Maybe we can use code from

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-05-01 Thread Steven **
The question is "how well does the Neo handle video?". There was some discussion on the list a while back about this. Sounds like playing/decoding video will tax the processor pretty hard. I'm sure someone will get it working, but I got the impression it would take some skill. It would definit

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-04-30 Thread adrian cockcroft
Slingbox currently can stream your home video system (including TiVo) to a computer or high speed (3G/WiFi) phone. It works well on laptops, and I've seen it demonstrated on phones and it looks quite good. This implies that its at least technically feasible to stream MythTV to a Neo. Adrian On 4

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-04-30 Thread Tim Newsom
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:56, Steven ** wrote: /snip I don't understand. Of course I'll want MythTV on my phone (iPhone or Neo). I'm not going to buy Apple TV because I already have MythTV setup and doing everything I want and more. I intend, at the very least, to use my Neo as a remote control

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Thompson
Steven ** wrote: On 4/29/07, Martin Lefkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an HTC wizard right now branded as cingular that I am running skype on. If I remember correctly I downloaded the software off the skype site for this handset. Does this mean it's approved or not approved? With yo

Re: Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-04-30 Thread Steven **
On 4/29/07, Martin Lefkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an HTC wizard right now branded as cingular that I am running skype on. If I remember correctly I downloaded the software off the skype site for this handset. Does this mean it's approved or not approved? With your setup, it's a g

Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

2007-04-29 Thread Martin Lefkowitz
I have an HTC wizard right now branded as cingular that I am running skype on. If I remember correctly I downloaded the software off the skype site for this handset. Does this mean it's approved or not approved? Wouldn't it be a problem for the FTC if Cingular didn't approve software like this