A new version of the orrery program has been uploaded to the
GForge site, and to opkg.org. There are not many new user
features - the Monthly Moon Calendar is prettier, and both
moon calendars now show Blue Moons (including the one on
New Years Eve, this year). Finger friendliness has been
impr
S subsystem, an electronic
paper display, and wonderful battery life? I think *that* would be a
much more exciting product than any realistically possible gta03 phone,
and a more tractible engineering project too.
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The PROJECTS area (GForge site) of openmoko.org has been down for about
one week.Has it been officially abandoned?
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The Openmoko Projects site is down again. It looks like it goes
offline predictably every Sunday afternoon (East coast USA time) unless it
is still down from the week before. Whatever is being done to put it
back online occasionally, is not fixing the fundamental problem.
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Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
> If the FreeRunner would be bug free, I'm
> sure people would still use them in 10+ years, easily.
The truth is that even though the Freerunner is buggy as hell,
some people will still be using them in 10+ years. Face it, we are
now in the same boat as the Apple Newton
t one extra, so whoever completes one of the above tasks
first gets the phone.
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Someone wrote a program to rotate text, and has thereby won my extra
Freerunner. So there is no reason to send me any other code snippets.
If someone wants to tell me what "Sendeh roo shamsheer" means, I'd still
appreciate it, but I have no more prize phones to s
be sold
to us "as is", with no end-user support from the manufacturer or carrier.
It's not a perfect solution, but I'd be satisfied with it.
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r with the situation think that the glamo will never be useful.
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a is worth the loss of resolution. i'm just not sure.
Please, please, please, please, please don't drop to a QVGA LCD on
future OM phones. The beautiful full VGA screens on the neo and
Freerunner are just about the only piece of hardware they have which
is better than what you find on a
smart phones.
I'm happy to trade off some degree of hardware obsolescence for openness,
but surely the hardware platform shouldn't be moving *backwards*.
Otherwise, why not just restart the production line for the Greenphone?
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off. In fact, I don't think even one
person has responded that, for them, that trade off would be a good one.
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or 14" or 17" screens or so.
> squeezing them down into 2.8" is nigh
> madness. it's possible - but vga vs qvga there isn't the
> factor (imho) :)
Why is it that viewing web pages, which are designed for 14" or 17"
screens is nigh madness, but viewing
l
3rd party applications, and a phone geared towards letting professional
people get some work done. There are not nearly so many of those
people as there are Apple fanboys, but they are willing to part with
serious money to get the best phone for their work and hobbies.
Think Differently!
ce, because every CPU/GPU
cycle spent animating an icon, or making a window translucent, eats
some of the energy stored in your battery, and reduces the amount of
useful work which can be done between recharges.
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GSM frequencies from four to three will be fixed on the GTA03?
To me, that seems like at least as big a problem as the Glamo.
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'03 is nearly indistiguishable from the VGA resolution
on a 2.8" screen I ask: When was the last time you saw a 150 DPI
laser printer? Why are they so hard to find?
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of Mathematica was developed
on a VAX 11/750 - the Freerunner should be about 20 times faster than
that machine in floating point. It was also rare to run across an
11/750 with more than 4 MByte of RAM.
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I tried placing the order with both Firefox
and Internet Explorer. Same error each time. Does anyone
know what's going wrong?
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teway Error 500" is Hi Trust's way
of saying "Credit Card Declined". I called Citibank, got them to
lift the block, and the transaction went through smoothly after
that.
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ator running on my neo1973.
It was very easy to port - I just had to re-arange the screen layout a bit
to have it fit on a VGA window, and cross compile for the ARM CPU.
A screen shot can be seen here:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:HP48OnMoko.png
If you want a copy of this program,
as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
The calculator ROM images are a different story, but I'm not modifying
them. They are available several places on the web.
K
ject line of Steve's post was "Phones are headed out of fremont
CA." which suggets that shipping began yesterday. For what it's
worth, I've heard nothing either (order 1367).
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around with
it for several hours in an open area. In desperation, I re-flashed the
kernel and rootfs, and again installed only gpsd and tangogps for
GPS software. No joy. The GPS init now seems completely nonfunctional.
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es. For the last few
days it has not been able to get a fix at all.
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Joerg Reisenweber (joerg at openmoko.org) wrote:
> wrong!
> won't help, don't try!
> /j
That's a bit cryptic - what are you saying is wrong? It it the
idea of removing the shielding, or the claim that the GPS performance
improves dramatically if the microSD car
If Sean is ever to begin receiving daily orders for pallets of 50,000
3G-enabled Freerunners, certain core applications must be attractive,
quickly responsive, and absolutely bullet proof. We all know what these
applications are: Dialer, Contacts, Meteor Shower Information, SMS
Messaging and Cale
dehqa...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
> I'm not programmer and maybe can not do anything for that .
I think it is very unlikely that you will be able to get an Openmoko
phone to work for you with Farsi text unless you able to do some
programming, or at least port some code. (Afsoos mikhora
the Community Updates are one of the most important features of the
wiki. If they stop coming out, the project will really look
moribund.
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Denis Galvo wrote:
> Really, we don't need a hi res screen on a day by day gadget
I could not possibly disagree more strongly.
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Denis Galvao wrote:
>>On 21/11/2008, at 13:20, Ken Young wrote:
>>> Really, we don't need a hi res screen on a day by day gadget
>>
>> I could not possibly disagree more strongly.
>
>So, give me a reason where you will need that.
As long as we have a
oring everything
else. Unless the Freerunner works as a phone, the thing is just a toy
for nerds no matter how wonderfully anything else might work on it.
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s apt to
be very closely tied to the particulars of the Freerunner hardware?
Porting Android sounds to me like a way to spend a huge amount of
time to produce another distribution for the Freerunner which will
be no more reliable (at best) than the others ones are.
Ken Young
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problems just getting started, I'll bet you'll find getting help on
the IRC channel to be more efficient.
Glad you got your phone!
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control a telescope
5000 miles away, and analyse the data, while I sit in a
pizza parlor. It's the high resolution display and the
X11 server that lets me do this. There's no way I
could do it with my Android G1 phone.
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g from the
commit lists. Also, project news is no longer
being moved to the "Latest News" section of the
home page.
Should the administration of that site be passed
to someone else?I'd be willing to administer it, if nobody
else
ld all concentrate our efforts on SHR.
> This should not be interpreted as paroli being abandoned as paroli is in the
> SHR feeds. I haven't tested it, but getting it to work would be one of my
> first
> tasks if it doesn't.
paroli has a LOT of fans, and your w
ass., USA
I'm afraid he means *real* Cambridge - as in England.
But if he means Cambridge Mass, I'll be a happy guy.
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care about these 3 points [...]
It will be entertaining if the folks who purchase WikiReaders start
hanging out on the Openmoko IRC channel. One set of participants will
be blathering on about wpa_supplicant files, and the other will be
asking how to insert
ly, yes the GTA01 is very noticeably faster in graphics.
I've got both, and I've run 'em side-by-side. The glamo actually
is a graphics DEcellerator. That's why GTA02-core is kicking it out.
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t transparency.
Show a simple, clean array of icons representing the applications
which can be launched. Allow the user to set the brightness, screen
blank time and suspend time. Stop there.
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I ordered the neo1973 on the first day the openmoko.com site went
live. Today I received a message, saying that to confirm the order,
I must reply to the email with a message containing (as the first
characters of an otherwise empty line) the string YES_I_DO . However,
when I sent that repl
How 'bout
"For those who prefer JTAG to Bluetooth." or
"It's not just a phone, it's a hobby." or
"Get one before the phone companies figure out what they are."
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e the rootfs before the device will boot. What
does that mean vis a vis the parts of the filesystem which can't be
distributed over the internet?How do we get those parts?
Ken Young
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better make phone calls reliably, and I've loaded
the 2007.2 rootfs, and it is no better than 2007.1 in that regard.
Just my two cents - I hope I'm not sounding like a grouch. I like
the neo, and appreciate very much the effort that has gone into
developing it.
Ken Young
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