Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-31 Thread Neil Jerram
On 21 December 2010 15:33, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: -- early adopter program -- Therefore, we have thought hat we offer an early adoper program to the benefit of everybody. The idea is that you can order a GTA04A3 immediately. [...] Fantastic stuff; I've placed an

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-23 Thread Thomas Franck
Am 21.12.2010 16:33, schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: So we are very confident that the already scheduled redesign (GTA04A3) will work right from the beginning and boot Linux. This looks like the start of the aera of new Openmoko devices. Thank you very much for your efforts regarding OSS

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 23 December 2010, W. B. Kranendonk wrote: --- On Wed, 12/22/10, Alfa21 freerun...@my.is.it wrote: 2010-12...@14:21 W. B. Kranendonk That reminds me... The BeagleBoard can provide up to 1280*1024 or 1280*720 if I recall correctly. Do we have options to channel that power

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread Alfa21
2010-12...@08:49 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller The main idea to provide a display is that not everyone wants to disassemble the freerunner core module (PCB + Display) to easily swap both. eh! I'm one of them ;P btw, on the order page I see: Si4721 (FM transceiver) ...UH?! I can transmit my

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 22.12.2010 um 09:50 schrieb Alfa21: 2010-12...@08:49 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller The main idea to provide a display is that not everyone wants to disassemble the freerunner core module (PCB + Display) to easily swap both. eh! I'm one of them ;P btw, on the order page I see: Si4721 (FM

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread SZENTE Balint
Hello! At first of all I would like to thank you for your efforts. It's good to see that the GTA04 project is progressing well. On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:58:06 +0100 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: The idea behind such chips is to send sound and RDS messages to your FM car

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 22.12.2010 um 12:11 schrieb SZENTE Balint: Hello! At first of all I would like to thank you for your efforts. It's good to see that the GTA04 project is progressing well. On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:58:06 +0100 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: The idea behind such

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread Treviño
Il giorno mar, 21/12/2010 alle 16.33 +0100, Dr.H.NikolausS ha scritto: Dear all, we are happy that we can make an announcement to the Free and Open Hardware Community, right in time for X-mas and New Year: We have finally tested, understood and patched the bugs of the first GTA04 sample

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Marco, Am 22.12.2010 um 16:18 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Il giorno mar, 21/12/2010 alle 16.33 +0100, Dr.H.NikolausS ha scritto: Dear all, we are happy that we can make an announcement to the Free and Open Hardware Community, right in time for X-mas and New Year: We have

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) -, Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread giacomo 'giotti' mariani
So we are very confident that the already scheduled redesign (GTA04A3) will work right from the beginning and boot Linux. This looks like the start of the aera of new Openmoko devices. This is indeed the first time after Neo1973 and FreeRunner that there is equally exciting news. +1 Great!

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread Cedric Cellier
-[ Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:58:06AM +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller ] The idea behind such chips is to send sound and RDS messages to your FM car radio. I.e. have your radio display a caller ID or navigation hints. The n900 from Nokia does just this. Apparently they didn't care if it's

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread Petr Vanek
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:29:37 +0100 Cedric Cellier ri...@happyleptic.org (CC) wrote: -[ Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:58:06AM +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller ] The idea behind such chips is to send sound and RDS messages to your FM car radio. I.e. have your radio display a caller ID or navigation

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread Alfa21
2010-12...@19:29 Cedric Cellier -[ Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:58:06AM +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller ] The idea behind such chips is to send sound and RDS messages to your FM car radio. I.e. have your radio display a caller ID or navigation hints. The n900 from Nokia does just this.

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread Esben Stien
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com writes: The idea behind such chips is to send sound and RDS messages to your FM car radio Or RDS Emergency messages to be able to tell the person in the car in front of you to drive faster or get out of the way through his audio system;). -- Esben

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 12/22/10, Alfa21 freerun...@my.is.it wrote: -[ Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:58:06AM +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller (always innovating) (or at least keep open the possibility to connect any external bigger display and standard keyboard) That reminds me... The BeagleBoard can

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread Alfa21
2010-12...@14:21 W. B. Kranendonk That reminds me... The BeagleBoard can provide up to 1280*1024 or 1280*720 if I recall correctly. Do we have options to channel that power out of the box? Nikolaus already stated that it should be possible to switch LCD's; does that make it possible to

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 12/22/10, Alfa21 freerun...@my.is.it wrote: 2010-12...@14:21 W. B. Kranendonk That reminds me... The BeagleBoard can provide up to 1280*1024 or 1280*720 if I recall correctly. Do we have options to channel that power out of the box? Nikolaus why not?? If all we need is a piece

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Toby D. Young
Wow. This looks great! I am excited. :-) Thank you very much for your efforts to get the community this far. Best, Toby - Toby D. Young Assistant Professor Institute of Fundamental Technological Problems Polish Academy of Sciences ul Adolfa Pawinskiego 5b 02-106 Warsaw Poland

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
FWIW, let me state that I fully support this project and will do my share to add FSO support once the necessary dependencies (hardware verification, kernel drivers) have been solved. This project is keeping the OM-spirit alive! Best regards, :M:

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Kosa
Great news! I will definitely buy one of those. Not just becouse I have a dead-by-drown FR collecting dust (wich case an lcd screen I can reuse), but also 'couse the FR is the best phone I have ever, I want to support opendevices development and this is the best way I can thank all FR users and

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Sylvain Paré
I would have been very glade to support this version too. but I decided to buy a mass market phone to support multiport of FSO just before the GTA04 began to be very promising.. I am a bit sad :/ but I will be there to support GTA05or 06 for sure!! anyway cheers! and Happy Holidays! best

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hallo Nikolaus, --- On Tue, 12/21/10, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org wrote: we are happy that we can make an announcement to the Free and Open Hardware Community, right in time for X-mas and New Year: I am happy to read it! Congratulations! So we are very confident that the

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Benjamin Deering
(there are not all peripherals installed but UMTS and GPS will be). It might be possible to retrofit some of them. I am quite interested, but a bit hesitant for missing goodies. Do you have some (closer) estimate about what's missing and what which of those things are retrofittable?

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread sam tygier
On 21/12/10 15:33, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Please note that it does *not* include the LCD module, case and battery, because it is a motherboard-replacement to existing Openmoko units (Freerunner and Neo1973). how much work is it to do this motherboard replacement? do we just unscrew

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 21.12.2010 um 22:24 schrieb W. B. Kranendonk: Hallo Nikolaus, --- On Tue, 12/21/10, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org wrote: we are happy that we can make an announcement to the Free and Open Hardware Community, right in time for X-mas and New Year: I am happy to read it!

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Sam, Am 22.12.2010 um 01:54 schrieb sam tygier: On 21/12/10 15:33, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Please note that it does *not* include the LCD module, case and battery, because it is a motherboard-replacement to existing Openmoko units (Freerunner and Neo1973). how much work is it

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Andreas Pokorny
Hi, 2010/12/22 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com: (there are not all peripherals installed but UMTS and GPS will be). It might be possible to retrofit some of them. I am quite interested, but a bit hesitant for missing goodies. Do you have some (closer) estimate about what's

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 22.12.2010 um 08:38 schrieb Andreas Pokorny: Hi, 2010/12/22 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com: (there are not all peripherals installed but UMTS and GPS will be). It might be possible to retrofit some of them. I am quite interested, but a bit hesitant for missing goodies. Do

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/12/21 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com: So we are very confident that the already scheduled redesign (GTA04A3) will work right from the beginning and boot Linux. This looks like the start of the aera of new Openmoko devices. This is indeed the first time after Neo1973 and