Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-20 Thread Michele Renda
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Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-09 Thread doron
Hi Michael / all, Sorry for my late response. I think that innovation is the big and the first challenge that the Openmoko and the community have. After 35 years of property industry (the cellular industry) it is easy to talk about innovation but it is not easy to be innovative - we all

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-08 Thread Cédric Berger
Once we all have such data collected, google could probably offer to publish it... They already do so for their own car fleet : http://www.google.org/recharge/dashboard Of course, not so many people are ready to publish such private data !! About crazy ideas... the same thing could also be done

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-08 Thread Jay Vaughan
Let's see more crazy/interesting ideas! As soon as we've got voice-recognition onboard, we can use it to automate such things as adding credit to the cell account. I thought about this on the drive in to work today - wouldn't it be nice to be able to 'train' a phone to navigate through a

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
Good, good. Keep those ideas coming, and I encourage you all to think way outside the traditional box of cellphone applications. Michael Jay Vaughan wrote: Let's see more crazy/interesting ideas! As soon as we've got voice-recognition onboard, we can use it to automate such things as

Not just a phone (was: Re: ancient hardware?)

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
Peter, your email below is the one I've been trying to write for the past few months. Like you, what got me excited about this project was NOT the possibility of building better cellphone applications, but rather the possibility of creating radically new uses for a general purpose, location

Re: Not just a phone (was: Re: ancient hardware?)

2008-07-07 Thread Steven **
I'm hoping to use it not just for in-car navigation, but also data readout. I intend to rig it to display voltage and current in my electric car. I'd like to see someone do that with an iPhone :-P -Steven On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, your

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
Excellent. I look forward to blogging about your setup. Please keep me/us informed. One fun thing to do: send this data to a web server, and plot it (using GPS) on a map showing your current consumption as a function of location? Steven ** wrote: I'm hoping to use it not just for in-car

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-07 Thread Steven **
That's a crazy/interesting idea. I would not do it real-time though. Data rates are rather high for my tastes. I could do a daily dump. But either way, it'd be really boring with my route. The same 2 miles every day... :-/ -Steven On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
1. Thank you. Crazy/interesting is exactly where innovation comes from, I think 2. Same route every day is good - then you smooth out any aberrations and get a realistic average. A low-pass filter. Steven ** wrote: That's a crazy/interesting idea. I would not do it real-time though. Data

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
Let's see more crazy/interesting ideas! Steven ** wrote: That's a crazy/interesting idea. I would not do it real-time though. Data rates are rather high for my tastes. I could do a daily dump. But either way, it'd be really boring with my route. The same 2 miles every day... :-/