I'll ask Steve to say something about this. He's much more in the loop
regarding our manufacturing process than I am.
Michael
Tim Niemeyer wrote:
Hello Michael Shiloh,
can you please clear this?
* "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18-04-08 17:45]:
I'm re-posting here some mails from the openmoko-devel "Future Button
and LED software spec" thread [1] in which there are some infos about
Freerunner hardware that I think they should be more visible.
Summarizing, they say that the GTA02v6 hardware version fixes an
hardware bug that causes the LEDs to use about 150mW instead of 25mW.
Btw Werner Almesberger stated there that the first batch of GTA02 to be
sold will be composed by GTA02v5 phones while GTA02v6 hardware will be
sold only in a second phase.
The hardware differencies between the two versions [2] (I've updated
with this LEDs issue) don't seem so worthless since there are some power
fixes (not only this one).
Read below:
Andy Powell wrote:
Shawn Rutledge wrote:
Werner Almesberger wrote:
Right now, we could only leave them (the LEDs) permanently on, which
comes with a
hefty electricity bill, particularly on GTA02v5 (each LED burns about
150mW). In GTA02v6, this should come down to about 25mW, maybe less.
But GTA02v5 is not going to ship, is it?
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
Werner Almesberger wrote:
Last thing I've heard, the first units will be GTA02v5 :-(
thomasg wrote:
@Werner: do you know - or can you figure out - how many GTA02v5 will
leave the factory and reach the customers?
I've heard something like "thousands". However, I've also heard that
there'll be some sort of fix for the LED problem in these GTA02v5.
Why this? Why not selling v6 directly? And... Which are other diffs
between v5 and v6? I think that the power usage of every element of the
phone is vital.
And which kind of fix for v5 is planned?
I certainly think that this should be made very very clear to people
buying the first batches and not just left as a passing comment on the dev
list.
So why shipping semi-bugged hardware if there's a fixed version ready?
[1] http://tinyurl.com/6p2mct
[2] http://tinyurl.com/6knk5m
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