Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-06 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:13:45 +0100 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" babbled: > > Let me give everyone a bit more background into the keypad issue. We > > first saw the Qtopia predictive keypad back in February of 2008, and > > became extremely exited. This keypad, we believed, had the potential to > >

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-04 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/4/09 Minh Ha Duong wrote: > Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009, Sean Moss-Pultz a écrit : > > > Now we're again struggling with closed firmwares (both the > Calypso and > > > the Atheros module). I would love to just make our own WiFi chip, > but > > > Openmoko doesn't have the volume to return ou

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-04 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009, Sean Moss-Pultz a écrit : > Now we're again struggling with closed firmwares (both the Calypso and > the Atheros module). I would love to just make our own WiFi chip, but > Openmoko doesn't have the volume to return our investment in such a > technology endeavor. Hello

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-03 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
JW wrote: > Sean > > Kudos to you for your openness about the status of Openmoko Inc and the future > roadmap, the numbers so far and future ambitions.Also for your hints about > some of the hard decisions and pain along the way. :-) > Its no small achievement to take this start up to the

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-03 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Hi Marco On 1/3/09 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: > > We asked Raster to integrate this keypad into Om 2008 and extend it > to > > > make it more hacker friendly (i.e., usable from places like the > > > terminal). After two months of more or less silence he showed us > his own > > > version, w

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-03 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/3/09 Lee Grime wrote: > I come from a hardware background, chip design mainly, but analogue > (note the spelling :-) ) and DSP(MSc) are still strong points. Done > chip design for 15 years. Now I do not have a great deal of time at > the > moment, what with a 3 week old baby and stuff!,

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-02 Thread JW
Sean Moss-Pultz openmoko.com> writes: Sean Kudos to you for your openness about the status of Openmoko Inc and the future roadmap, the numbers so far and future ambitions.Also for your hints about some of the hard decisions and pain along the way. Its no small achievement to take this sta

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-02 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: >> Q5. Kosa and Marco wondered if you could say us something about the >> management that doesn't seem to be loved by great hackers like Harald >> and Carsten. For example, what is your analysis of the controversies >> that led Om2008 to ship with Qtopia's predictive keyboard

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-02 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:50:14 +0100 Lee Grime babbled: or... use something programmable like the omap3 series that comes with a dsp to offload work to - arm has been working on doing cortex a9 which is multi-core. forget glamo. it's legacy. if you are talking of "doing an SoC" you are in for a har

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-02 Thread Lee Grime
Sean, I come from a hardware background, chip design mainly, but analogue (note the spelling :-) ) and DSP(MSc) are still strong points. Done chip design for 15 years. Now I do not have a great deal of time at the moment, what with a 3 week old baby and stuff!, but if we can get a few other like

Questions and Answers

2009-01-02 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Dear Community Here are my answers to your great questions: > Q1. The end of the year is a time to look back on the year > achievements. So where does Openmoko stands now from a business point > of view ? Could you comment on sustainability, on sales numbers, on > geographic markets and custome