Xfbdev+ALSA - which phone?

2009-10-15 Thread carmen
since FICOpenMoko seems to have gotten out of competition against ASUSACerHTCHuaWeiNokiaEriccsonSonySamsungLGApple in the phone dept, which is a suitable option for someone who wants 3G data and the ability to run anything? N900 is $600, i'd rather get 3 $100-150 mainland-china/last-generation

Re: Freerunner's Future

2009-06-06 Thread carmen
difference. It causes a revolution where major phone manufacturers like LG, Samsung, Nokia, etc. will start trembling to figure out their next moves as the community thrives to make something so much better with mass collaboration. how so? iphone/pre/blackberry/winmo all offer similarly

Re: sunlight readable LCD

2009-04-16 Thread carmen
Some ThinkPad X200 Tablets have similar AFFS+ screens of the same manufacturer if you want to see it in action. my X200 Tablet is unviewable in sun. standard CFFL backlight. i guess the LED is stronger? i use my Astak / Jinke / Hanlin ebook reader in the same sunlight, but refresh is pretty

Re: The future of the Neo Freerunner

2009-04-03 Thread carmen
On Fri Apr 03, 2009 at 07:39:19PM +0200, Thomas Bumberger wrote: As Openmoko sacked/was left by 50% of its developers and halted the development of GTA03 i want to know your opinion on the future of the Neo. As it seems Openmoko stopped funding FSO too. hello, are there any 3G phones which

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-19 Thread carmen
On Fri Dec 19, 2008 at 10:17:40AM +0100, Michael Zanetti wrote: On Friday 19 December 2008 02:10:59 W.Kenworthy wrote: Actually, please add a camera. Many techos (that is those who work in technical areas) use the mobile phone camera in their work. I.e., photos of situations, faults etc

Re: GTA03 - timeframe

2008-10-29 Thread carmen r
On Wed Oct 29, 2008 at 08:22:15PM +0100, t m wrote: Less bulky would be nice. KB would be nice. To be able to phone with it would also be nice. any timeframe and ideas on whether a hw change like adding a kbd would affect? i mean it would be useful to know things like gta03 wont exist until q2

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-14 Thread carmen r
On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 05:41:55PM -0400, Dylan Reilly wrote: FWIW, the qtopia media player in the testing branch is vastly better than it was. Volume control even works now without causing distortion! From my observations, the audio quality issue has been due to CPU load and not the player

Re: Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

2008-10-06 Thread carmen r
On Tue Sep 09, 2008 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Al Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:00:36PM +0100, Al Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: I hope you guys don't mind killing your phone

Re: Concept arts. Interface - how I would like it to see.

2008-09-23 Thread carmen r
On Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 12:16:26AM +0200, wp wrote: Dear Community, As first, I want to say thank you for all your great job, by which I can do what I do now. Om2008.* is, (in my opinion!), not very comfortable in use (Qtopia goes way better, but it is still not what I want). I mean - I

Re: Sold out aaaah

2008-08-22 Thread carmen r
On Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 12:42:19PM -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote: http://us.direct.openmoko.com/products/neo-freerunner Maybe by the time I get a chance to buy one they will have enough processor power, ram and disk space to replace my laptop. Every time I even look to buy it I see the sold out.

Re: trying to buy a freerunner in taipei?

2008-07-30 Thread carmen r
On Thu Jul 31, 2008 at 10:31:29AM +0800, MKL23 wrote: What is the requirements to become a distributor? A firm? Or personal workshop? you know how in a major city you can find a handful of little stores usually operated by someone from China or Taiwan, and grab the latest ASUS, or MSI (or

SDR chip candidates

2008-07-21 Thread carmen r
are there any SD adc/exciter combinations which are open source and suitable for OpenMoko? i know of the QS1R project off hand.. GTA02 has 4 radios, 3 of which can transmit (BlueTooth, GSM, 802.11) and one extremely sensitive to low-power signal (GPS). im sure the RF coupling / capacitance /