Few questions regarding phone

2007-01-09 Thread Pranav Desai
Hello All, I have been following the list and seem like a very interesting project and I very excited about getting this device. I do have a few questions: - Will this be a ready to use phone, out of the box ? as long as i have a sim card. - What is the final status on bluetooth. I have been

Re: Few questions regarding phone

2007-01-09 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 21:42, Pranav Desai wrote: Hello All, I have been following the list and seem like a very interesting project and I very excited about getting this device. I do have a few questions: - Will this be a ready to use phone, out of the box ? as long as i have a sim

Re: Few questions regarding phone

2007-01-09 Thread Mikko Rauhala
ti, 2007-01-09 kello 12:42 -0800, Pranav Desai kirjoitti: I do have a few questions: Even though I'm not in the dev team, I thought I'd field the bulk of the questions based on publically available information, to keep the devs deving ;] (Also, hence I'm the only one to blame if some of this

Re: Few questions regarding phone

2007-01-09 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Mikko Rauhala writes: You should be able to do stuff like this, plus modify most of the phone software to your liking. You will need to add a microSD memory card if you want to install a significant amount of addon software. Don't know about the browser situation; Firefox is a bit big, but I

Re: Few questions regarding phone

2007-01-09 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 14:33, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Also, there is now a MicroSD wi-fi card on the market. No idea what chipset it uses (so no idea whether Linux support exists, or even can exit), and I have to be skeptical as to what kind of range it can possibly have. No linux

Re: Few questions regarding phone

2007-01-09 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Stefan Schmidt writes: Hello. On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 14:33, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Also, there is now a MicroSD wi-fi card on the market. No idea what chipset it uses (so no idea whether Linux support exists, or even can exit), and I have to be skeptical as to what kind of range it can

GSM Japan

2007-01-09 Thread Rowland Cheshire
Well it seems that my original conclusion was correct. A well spoken gentlemen from Docomo told me today that Japan does not have a GSM service, despite having 3G/GSM capable phones for sale. These are for residents traveling overseas into GSM coverage. They do however provide a roaming