Re: GTA05 suggestions
It would be cool to have one as a USB host and another as usb client. 2008/8/29 Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lally Singh wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Radek Bartoň [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Card accesible from outside would be great too. Disassembling hood and SIM card is really annoying so far. A second USB port would be nice, too. There's a lot of fun to be had in hooking external electronics to the OM. Honestly, so much fun that it's really worth exploring. But, it's not really fair to expect OM to sell (or bundle in) all the little goodies we'd like, like the X10 transceiver, compass, etc. Instead, how about two screw bolts around one of the USB connectors (like the PSP) and some means of getting a little plastic case electronics board that plugs in. I'm thinking more of a listing with a 3rd party USB enclosure for custom electronics. Let the community build the cool stuff, and we'll share what we did! OM's only got to: 1) decide on a USB enclosure to be physically compatible with 2) add in the screw bolts around a USB port. And the rest of us can have all the fun hacking away with the possibilities :-) I think that this is a great idea, but to clarify, this should be a _second_ USB port, so that you can be charging / usb networking while using these add-on devices you buy/build... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
GTA05 suggestions
I suggest these names for GTA05 Neo Unity Neo Meridian Neo Elysian Neo Gladsheim Neo Ignis Neo Yggdrasil 3GPP LTE Support ( via bluetooth ?) Camera Display Multitouch screen 262k or 16.7M colors for displaying images and especially videos. Distance sensing touchscreen ( can be operated with gloves ) Video acceleration Hardware acceleration for video playback and 2D/3D acceleration Transreflective screen Input devices Tablet PC like pen input (Wacom Technology) Regular phone keypad No Dependence on Stylus QWERTY or Dvorák keyboard ( via usb ) D-Pad and Buttons 3 axis Accelerometer Determine Position Dynamic Screen Orientation Side-Mounted Touch Strip Digital compass A digital compass is useful for orienting maps to the terrain and other location/direction/orientation based applications (... is 300 meter that way) when the user is standing still (regardless of GPS reception) and for following a bearing when GPS reception is poor or speed is low. Also could be used to make the accelerometer data more exact. Auto Align Map Thermometer Barometer and Variometer (Altimeter) ( bluetooth or usb ? ) A Barometer measures air pressure. This can be used to give weather information, and also as a variometer, to sense relative altitude. Variometers are commonly used in flying microlight and ultralight aircraft, to get accurate relative altitude. These are also common on high end GPS units. This is a great feature for walkers as you can tell how far you have got on any ascent/decent. Light Sensor Ability to sense ambient light, and act accordingly. i.e if it's 3am and LightValue.1 then Ring Quietly. Make all unlocking of phone, password protected Storage MMC/SD/SDIO slot (rather than?) miniSD or microSD SDHC compatible. Micro SDHC for /home partition. Keep like current design underneath SIM Local Communication NFC ( Near Field Communication ) chip USB 5V Powered, to avoid having to carry around a hub for when you want to occasionally plug in a memory stick. USB 2.0 Protection against incorrectly wired USB ports: some USB ports are wired incorrectly; if the +5V and GND are swapped, the device would get -5V when it's expecting +5V, which could burn some chips. A reverse-biased diode between +5V and GND, D+ and GND, D- and GND, and (if used) ID and GND, with a low enough forward voltage drop (to limit the negative voltages to what the chips can withstand), would protect the device by tripping the port's short circuit protection. SIR/FIR transceiver (Serial Infrared) / IR remote control Output devices LED The Neo1973 GTA02 will have LEDs of some sort behind at least one button. [1] For example a multicolor LED which pulses yellow for GSM/GPRS transmit, blue for Bluetooth/Wifi, green to indicate non-urgent information - missed call etc, red to indicate battery low or other urgent notices. The LED and button ideas could be combined: illuminated buttons. It must be possible to completely disable the LED to save power or other personal preferences. Flashlight ( high output LED ) For finding keys, or any other application. May also optionally pulse in time with ring, to make phone more visible. This is really well done in Nokia 5500. HAC Compliance ( telecoil ) Mobile Communication options UMA/GAN Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) GSM/GPRS quad-band EDGE UMTS - HSDPA (asia) Dedicated Power / Charger Pinout GLONASS/GPS receiver A multi-standard satellite positioning module would be nice. X10 RF Remote RFID tag/RFID Reader Standard 3.5mm headphone jack Software should know of the jack status faster boot time A boot time of a minute is WAY to long! Vibration Instead of using a counter-weighted motor to provide a vibrate function, a small solenoid could be used.It would provide more of a tap or click feel. It could be used to provide feedback when a on screen button is pressed. Different patterns of taps is a lot easier to recognize compared to different vibration frequencies. For those who know morse code they could have the phone tap out the phone number/name of the person calling/messaging or other alerts. Running without battery Please make it possible to run the device without a battery inserted (with the charger attached). ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GTA05 suggestions
Dne Friday 29 of August 2008 15:27:15 H.Hveem napsal(a): Make all unlocking of phone, password protected Storage MMC/SD/SDIO slot (rather than?) miniSD or microSD SDHC compatible. Micro SDHC for /home partition. Keep like current design underneath SIM Card accesible from outside would be great too. Disassembling hood and SIM card is really annoying so far. -- Ing. Radek Bartoň Faculty of Information Technology Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia Brno University of Technology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://blackhex.no-ip.org Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GTA05 suggestions
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Radek Bartoň [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Card accesible from outside would be great too. Disassembling hood and SIM card is really annoying so far. A second USB port would be nice, too. There's a lot of fun to be had in hooking external electronics to the OM. Honestly, so much fun that it's really worth exploring. But, it's not really fair to expect OM to sell (or bundle in) all the little goodies we'd like, like the X10 transceiver, compass, etc. Instead, how about two screw bolts around one of the USB connectors (like the PSP) and some means of getting a little plastic case electronics board that plugs in. I'm thinking more of a listing with a 3rd party USB enclosure for custom electronics. Let the community build the cool stuff, and we'll share what we did! OM's only got to: 1) decide on a USB enclosure to be physically compatible with 2) add in the screw bolts around a USB port. And the rest of us can have all the fun hacking away with the possibilities :-) -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GTA05 suggestions
Take a leaf from others - the treo 650 has externally accessible SD card, sim card and a physical switch for audio. The freerunner hardware feels positively neanderthal by comparison ... BillK On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 18:41 +0200, Radek Bartoň wrote: Dne Friday 29 of August 2008 15:27:15 H.Hveem napsal(a): Make all unlocking of phone, password protected Storage MMC/SD/SDIO slot (rather than?) miniSD or microSD SDHC compatible. Micro SDHC for /home partition. Keep like current design underneath SIM Card accesible from outside would be great too. Disassembling hood and SIM card is really annoying so far. -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home in Perth! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GTA05 suggestions
Lally Singh wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Radek Bartoň [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Card accesible from outside would be great too. Disassembling hood and SIM card is really annoying so far. A second USB port would be nice, too. There's a lot of fun to be had in hooking external electronics to the OM. Honestly, so much fun that it's really worth exploring. But, it's not really fair to expect OM to sell (or bundle in) all the little goodies we'd like, like the X10 transceiver, compass, etc. Instead, how about two screw bolts around one of the USB connectors (like the PSP) and some means of getting a little plastic case electronics board that plugs in. I'm thinking more of a listing with a 3rd party USB enclosure for custom electronics. Let the community build the cool stuff, and we'll share what we did! OM's only got to: 1) decide on a USB enclosure to be physically compatible with 2) add in the screw bolts around a USB port. And the rest of us can have all the fun hacking away with the possibilities :-) I think that this is a great idea, but to clarify, this should be a _second_ USB port, so that you can be charging / usb networking while using these add-on devices you buy/build... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
