Re: End User Input....and Question

2008-04-16 Thread Jay Vaughan
I have 5 cell phones that need to be recycledwhat a waste. Find dev-kits for them and build apps with them .. ; -- Jay Vaughan ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

3D and auto-config.

2008-04-16 Thread François TOURDE
Hi, Here is an article (in french, sorry): http://www.macbidouille.com/news/2008-04-12/#16175 about a very simple phone (one button: Call an operator, or Call emergency), with 2 good functionnalities: Phone on the desktop - Speaker on On the desktop, reversed - Vibrator mode That can be a

Re: PVT Update.

2008-04-16 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Mark Arvidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but will it blend? Ahah :) for those who didn't get it... : http://www.willitblend.com/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:05:10PM +0200, David Samblas Martinez wrote: Regarding colors, maybe in the massmarket phase being able to customice your case as a lot of comercial moviles will be a plus to fashion victims ( My female work college has his laptop, movile phone and mp3 all in

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread David Samblas Martinez
Hey there is nothing more dearly than a happy developer dancing after a successfull test. :) Regarding colors, maybe in the massmarket phase being able to customice your case as a lot of comercial moviles will be a plus to fashion victims ( My female work college has his laptop, movile phone and

Re: Unofficial poll: Do you want 3G in the proposed successor, GTA 03?

2008-04-16 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 4/16/08, Justyn Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15/04/2008, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: QWERTY keyboards and appropriate cases are, I believe, produced already, and can be subcontracted. There is no surprise in a QWERTY keyboard. There was also

Re: End User Input....and Question

2008-04-16 Thread Rune Gangstø
I'm a bit interested in buying this now, but I don't know if it's a good idea. How hard is it to upgrade software version yourself? Is it like this version is complete, but software isn't? or is the hardware to be changed when the end user version is ready? Rune Gangstø 2008/4/16, Jay Vaughan

Re: End User Input....and Question

2008-04-16 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 4/16/08, Rune Gangstø [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit interested in buying this now, but I don't know if it's a good idea. How hard is it to upgrade software version yourself? Is it like this version is complete, but software isn't? or is the hardware to be changed when the end user

Re: End User Input....and Question

2008-04-16 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Rune Gangstø [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How hard is it to upgrade software version yourself? IT shoudn't be too hard, and I expect that tools and documentation will be made available for Windows, Mac and Linux users. Is it like this version is complete, but

Re: Buy the Neo fra Norway

2008-04-16 Thread Dirk Deimeke
Hi, The problem here is that trisoft is selling it for 399€ There was a correction to 350 EUR. If you live outside EU, you don't have to pay the taxes (19%), so it comes to ca. 295 EUR, but you have to pay the taxes in your country. Dirk ___

Re: Buy the Neo fra Norway

2008-04-16 Thread Edwin Lock
Yes, people in Europa can buy from TRIsoft (maybe also 10-pack, it's best to mail TRIsoft about this). Next time please check the TRIsoft website, it tells you the price(350 Euro + shipping). www.trisoft.de/openmoko On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Alexander Frøyseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Buy the Neo fra Norway

2008-04-16 Thread Roland Häder
350 EURO + 5 EURO for shipping and handling to me as a german citizen. They are from Germany so I don't know if they sell to Norway as well and under the same conditions. So maybe higher SH price. :/ Order together with many people as you can get. And yes, get their money first... ;-) Roland

Re: Buy the Neo fra Norway

2008-04-16 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Edwin Lock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, people in Europa can buy from TRIsoft (maybe also 10-pack, it's best to mail TRIsoft about this). Next time please check the TRIsoft website, it tells you the price(350 Euro + shipping). www.trisoft.de/openmoko On

Re: Buy the Neo fra Norway

2008-04-16 Thread Carlo E. Prelz
Subject: Re: Buy the Neo fra Norway Date: Wed 16 Apr 08 04:21:40PM +0200 Quoting Edwin Lock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yes, people in Europa can buy from TRIsoft (maybe also 10-pack, it's best to mail TRIsoft about this). But there were voices that FIC was about to set up a european

RE: oredring the Freerunner as an research item

2008-04-16 Thread McCreery, Lee CTR DISA
Not that I have the any correct legal answers, but in a past life I worked for a research medical company that shipped equipment from the US to the EU(Germany) as Research. Yes, it did reduce the headache of customs, cost, taxes, etc. If I remember correctly, the product that was labeled as

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread Peter Kraker
Someone with a knack for business should simply grab those CAD files and start manufacturing replacement cases in gazillion different colors. Bastian Muck pravi: What about colored stickers? I think it could be cheap to design and cut them to fit at the neo. I guess this could be a solution to

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:32:09PM +0200, Peter Kraker wrote: Someone with a knack for business should simply grab those CAD files and start manufacturing replacement cases in gazillion different colors. I thought the same. So I've picked an injection moulding firm more or less at random,

Colored cases, etc - Was Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread Steven **
For the one off, you could check out http://www.emachineshop.com They do injection molding of various plastics in many colors. I'm not sure if you could make a profit by having them make a ton of cases and then reselling them or not. -Steven On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Hugo Mills [EMAIL

Re: End User Input....and Question

2008-04-16 Thread Lowell Higley
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hardware is complete. But I assume that if hardware bugs are discovered, it will be considered to fix them before the consumer release (depending on the bug). Since all the software isn't ready yet, I guess

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Davey
>From the involvement I've had with injection molding the costs of material (ie the plastic) per piece it not very expensive, it's the mold tool that is the expensive part.. For one project I'm involved in I think the mold tool was something like $10KUSD.. This is a production quality (read

Re: Mini jack 2.5mm?

2008-04-16 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
Soo 32 Ohm is okey? How rare is they? [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Am Mi 16. April 2008 schrieb Alexander Frøyseth: Perhaps that. But I want to listen to music with other thing then the headset that follows. I know I need a 8Ohms headset to use it on the NEO But is 8 ohm soo commen?

Re: Mini jack 2.5mm?

2008-04-16 Thread joerg
32 Ohm pretty much is standard. Neo comes with standard headset. For really god sound (with bass) you'll need a high Imp (= much Ohm) headset. Up to 800 Ohm. More Ohm = more bass, up to 800 Ohm. cheers jOERG Am Mi 16. April 2008 schrieb Alexander Frøyseth: Soo 32 Ohm is okey? How rare is

HAPPY DANCE version .9

2008-04-16 Thread steve
Dhl delivered goodies today. I gave one to my kids. One phone. Two teenage boys. Stress testing. They fighting over it. Ha. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: HAPPY DANCE version .9

2008-04-16 Thread Steven Le Roux
So it appears to be the destructive test ;) On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:41 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dhl delivered goodies today. I gave one to my kids. One phone. Two teenage boys. Stress testing. They fighting over it. Ha. ___

Re: Colored cases, etc - Was Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread Steven Le Roux
Hmm in this goal, why not Openmoko.com to sell blank case, non finished ones, witout any painting, just to be customized/adapted later ? I don't think only with painting, but integrate an eye cam or other expansion pack, or wifi external connectors for example... Even one water proof why not :)

Re: Colored cases, etc - Was Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread Matt Manjos
I guess people could get it airbrushed if it was a matte plastic case, maybe shipped with primer already painted on it. Seems like a lot of work, but it would really fit well with the whole customization thing. Maybe FIC could start selling DIY at-home plastic injection molding kits, too ;) On

RE: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread steve
One goal of freeing the CAD , freeing the flesh of the phone, was to enable others to seize these opportunities. So, the CAD files for the FreeRunner are out there, before it has even shipped. I think this decision is underappreciated. The per piece cost of plastic is small. Go price a pound

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread Michele Renda
steve wrote: One goal of freeing the CAD , freeing the flesh of the phone, was to enable others to seize these opportunities. So, the CAD files for the FreeRunner are out there, before it has even shipped. I think this decision is underappreciated. The per piece cost of plastic is small. Go

Re: HAPPY DANCE version .9

2008-04-16 Thread Steven **
Is that supposed to stress the phone? Or you? ;-) -Steven On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:41 AM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dhl delivered goodies today. I gave one to my kids. One phone. Two teenage boys. Stress testing. They fighting over it. Ha.

Re: Mini jack 2.5mm?

2008-04-16 Thread joerg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: GTA02 will ship with a 32 Ohm anyway... :-/ Sorry, that's to say: GTA01 was shipping with a 32R headset. Probably GTA02 will be shipping with much of the accessories trade in for nice price - see recent discussion on this. cheers jOERG

Stop talking about hardware!

2008-04-16 Thread Tilman Baumann
Matt Manjos wrote: I guess people could get it airbrushed if it was a matte plastic case, maybe shipped with primer already painted on it. Seems like a lot of work, but it would really fit well with the whole customization thing. Maybe FIC could start selling DIY at-home plastic injection

RE: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread steve
This is EXACTLY why we freed the CAD files -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugo Mills Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:58 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update On Wed, Apr 16, 2008

3G? What about CDMA?

2008-04-16 Thread Steven **
I talk with friends and co-workers about OpenMoko and the Neo Freerunner all the time. Inevitably, they say something like That's cool. Will it work with Verizon? or That's cool. Will it work with Sprint?. And of course, the answer is no... I don't think any of my friends are with att (even

Re: next costumers location

2008-04-16 Thread AVee
On Monday 14 April 2008 01:13, steve wrote: A. We killed the orange colored phone. May it rest in peace. *snif* I will now forever (or at least the rest of the day) regret not buying a GTA01. AVee -- Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy

Re: 3G? What about CDMA?

2008-04-16 Thread Kevin Dean
GSM is essentially an international standard. With some exceptions, CDMA isn't used much. Furthermore, even in the USA, Verizon will be deploying a GSM network soon (next few years). So a Freerunner WILL work on Verizon in the near future. Don't count on a CDMA device, using a relatively closed

RE: HAPPY DANCE version .9

2008-04-16 Thread steve
First question was can I play WOW on it. I slap my head so hard I have no wrinkles in my forehead anymore. better than Botox. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Le Roux Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:56 AM To: List for Openmoko community

Re: openmoko roadmap

2008-04-16 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 20:20:44 Peter Abplanalp wrote: with the release of the freerunner coming up, i'm wondering about the roadmap and future for openmoko and additional phones. i'm an advanced linux user but have no experience with openmoko or the cell phone platform and thus i'm

Re: Stop talking about hardware!

2008-04-16 Thread Matt Manjos
Hehe yeah no hard feelings. I was just being a smartass about people making their own injection molded cases. I agree that there have been a lot of people talking here, as well as on the wiki (see: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wish_List_-_Hardware ), about hardware dreams that are very very VERY

Re: HAPPY DANCE version .9

2008-04-16 Thread Matt Manjos
Introduce them to the wonders of MUD gaming from a telnet session launched out of bash. Either that, or has nethack been ported to OM yet??? On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:40 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First question was can I play WOW on it. I slap my head so hard I have no wrinkles in

Re: 3G? What about CDMA?

2008-04-16 Thread Steven **
I don't see how GSM is much less closed of a network protocol than CDMA (the interchangeable SIM cards being the big difference). The GSM chip is the most locked down hardware on the Neo. A CDMA chip would be no different. As far as the aims of the Openmoko project, I don't see how CDMA

Re: Qtopia on Neo FreeRunner?

2008-04-16 Thread Steven **
I think you've got that a little backwards. You should be asking the Qtopia people if they plan to support the Freerunner. I'm pretty certain their answer will be yes, since it already works for GTA01 and probably isn't too much effort to support GTA02. -Steven On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM,

RE: Colored cases, etc - Was Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread steve
Well, you actualy have to design the case to allow painting. Paint has THICKNESS. So if you look at the clearence for buttons, you would have one clearence for a non painted plastic and a bigger clearence for a painted plastic part. I have made this mistake before, when I wanted to change

Re: openmoko roadmap

2008-04-16 Thread Steven **
Well, what do you intend to do on your phone? Lacking further information, I'd say you being an advanced linux user makes you a prime candidate for a Neo. -Steven On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Peter Abplanalp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, with the release of the freerunner coming up,

Re: openmoko roadmap

2008-04-16 Thread Kevin Dean
Speaking realistically, it's impossible for Openmoko to reveal that information and no have it hurt sales, for EXACTLY the reason you mentioned. As a support (and Neo1973 owner) I debated with this myself. Why pay for a phone today when I KNOW the newer model is around the corner? At the same

RE: HAPPY DANCE version .9

2008-04-16 Thread steve
Hey, it's been a while and there is no blood. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven ** Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:15 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: HAPPY DANCE version .9 Is that supposed to

Re: Qtopia on Neo FreeRunner?

2008-04-16 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 20:53:13 Steven ** wrote: I think you've got that a little backwards. You should be asking the Qtopia people if they plan to support the Freerunner. I'm pretty certain their answer will be yes, since it already works for GTA01 and probably isn't too much effort to

Re: 3G? What about CDMA?

2008-04-16 Thread Kevin Dean
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see how GSM is much less closed of a network protocol than CDMA (the interchangeable SIM cards being the big difference). Stop thinking in terms of the technology itself and think in terms of a userbase. In the

Re: Qtopia on Neo FreeRunner?

2008-04-16 Thread Peter Kraker
Lorry Potter from Trolltech is doing that. Jeff Tranter pravi: Are there any plans to support Qtopia on the Neo FreeRunner GTA02? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: 3G? What about CDMA?

2008-04-16 Thread Ben Burdette
Steven ** wrote: I don't see how GSM is much less closed of a network protocol than CDMA (the interchangeable SIM cards being the big difference). The GSM chip is the most locked down hardware on the Neo. A CDMA chip would be no different. Actually the situation here IS very different,

Re: Mini jack 2.5mm?

2008-04-16 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/4/15, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Space reasons. I've been told that most phones use 2,5mm today for that reason. Not very true nowadays. I think 3,5mm should really be considered for the next product. Most new phones intended to be also music devices all have 3,5mm. That said,

Re: Re:Wrong Mini-USB-Jack

2008-04-16 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:38:11 +0200, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Freerunner be OTG? NEO could do either host or device, but didn't follow OTG spec to do it. OTG requires USB 2.0, which Neo doesn't support. -- Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ICQ: 115226275]

Re: next costumers location

2008-04-16 Thread Brandon Kruger
On Wed April 16 2008 2:30:04 pm AVee wrote: On Monday 14 April 2008 01:13, steve wrote: A. We killed the orange colored phone. May it rest in peace. *snif* I will now forever (or at least the rest of the day) regret not buying a GTA01. AVee Are the GTA01 and GTA02 cases the same? If

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:07:18AM -0700, steve wrote: One goal of freeing the CAD , freeing the flesh of the phone, was to enable others to seize these opportunities. So, the CAD files for the FreeRunner are out there, before it has even shipped. I think this decision is underappreciated.

Re: HAPPY DANCE version .9

2008-04-16 Thread Brandon Kruger
On Wed April 16 2008 12:41:03 pm steve wrote: Dhl delivered goodies today. I gave one to my kids. One phone. Two teenage boys. Stress testing. They fighting over it. Ha. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

RE: next costumers location

2008-04-16 Thread steve
There are differences. See the CAD files I cannot recall off the top of my noggin what they are. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Kruger Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:19 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject:

OpenMoko application software

2008-04-16 Thread Ron K. Jeffries
Is there a mail list devoted to application software and related user interface issues for OpenMoko? If not, could we please start one? putting on my flame proof suit: community@lists.openmoko.org (with all-too-rare exceptions) has devolved into almost AOL level blather about mundane stuff that

Re: Qtopia on Neo FreeRunner?

2008-04-16 Thread Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
Wednesday 16 April 2008 skrev Jeff Tranter: Are there any plans to support Qtopia on the Neo FreeRunner GTA02? There's a press release somewhere that the Trolls suggest using the Freerunner - this of course happened the same time as the GreenPhone sold out :) In short: They need a generic

Re: HAPPY DANCE version .9

2008-04-16 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:40 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First question was can I play WOW on it. Answer could be : yes ! code it :) I slap my head so hard I have no wrinkles in my forehead anymore. better than Botox. -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]

wiki help

2008-04-16 Thread Shawn
Hey, does someone mind answering a wiki editing question for me (off list that is)? It's about editing tables, specifically the group sales page. thanks, . . .Shawn Be a better friend, newshound,

RE: Colored cases, etc - Was Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread steve
See what you think. The one issue might be that you have to use their design Package ( a little funky) and I don't recall being able to get an data base of your Design files. So, it's a bit sketchy on the open philosophy side of things. I havent been to their site in couple years, so lets check it

RE: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-16 Thread steve
Thanks Lon. Good comment. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lon Lentz Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:12 PM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update For quite a while now I've been reading

Re: e-mail app on OM

2008-04-16 Thread Bastian Muck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I´d like a tiny clone of Mozilla Thunderbird. I don't know, if it is realizeable or reasonable, but there might be best synchonization to other devices. Mozilla Thunderbird is available for different platforms, so there might be less problems with

Re: wiki help

2008-04-16 Thread Steven Le Roux
hmm okay it's not as easy as we wanted to do :) here is an explanation : | width=25% rowspan=4 | Sample country | width=25% rowspan=3| sample region #1 | width=25% rowspan=2| sample city | width=25% | sample buyer #1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber_Id |- | width=25% | sample