RE: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-05 Thread steve
: Question about future devices (GTA03,04) Stroller wrote: Yeah, but you're the guys who can just slip the odd extra chip into the design without anyone else noticing. ;) don't think so ;) If questioned just tell management that Classic FM is required to soothe the kernel penguins. well

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-05 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 05.06.2008 um 17:12 schrieb steve: Ya, there are also ugly taxes on FM last time I looked. ( in EU) AFAIK 14 % import duties for broadcast receivers. Therefore some companies split production between basic device + receiver module (china) and final assembly in europe. Then, the 14% are

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-03 Thread Tobias Pankrath
Since you're the guy working the electric schematics of the device, can I ask you to consider an FM radio receiver in future iterations, please? GTA04 or 05 or whatever. I believe, from a previous post to the list, that this is a particularly popular mobile-phone feature in India,

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-03 Thread cdr
Since you're the guy working the electric schematics of the device, can I ask you to consider an FM radio receiver in future iterations, please? GTA04 or 05 or whatever. I believe, from a previous post to the list, that this is a particularly popular mobile-phone feature in India, but

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-03 Thread Mo Abrahams
Its all about 3g for me. HSDPA would be brilliant. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Jun 2008, at 15:15, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: ... we at EE are not deciding on key features of future products, we are provided with specs on what to design. Yeah, but you're the guys who can just slip the odd extra chip into the design without anyone else noticing. ;) If questioned

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-03 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
I'm just working on improving the schematics (like quite some other guys of OM staff), but we at EE are not deciding on key features of future products, we are provided with specs on what to design. Anyway your suggestions and requests will be noticed when posted in this list. cheers jOERG

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-03 Thread Joachim Steiger
Stroller wrote: Yeah, but you're the guys who can just slip the odd extra chip into the design without anyone else noticing. ;) don't think so ;) If questioned just tell management that Classic FM is required to soothe the kernel penguins. well.. it adds power, space and cost and

Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-02 Thread Sergey Volkov
Hello, openmoko community. I have a question regarding future products of Openmoko. Wiki says http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA that GTA03 is actually HXD8, a car navigation system. This claim is based on a post by Michael Lauer, http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-May/017061.html.

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-02 Thread Kevin Dean
This is GTA03 - http://walkingice.twbbs.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=715 On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Sergey Volkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, openmoko community. I have a question regarding future products of Openmoko. Wiki says http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA that GTA03 is

RE: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-02 Thread Robert Horton
To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Question about future devices (GTA03,04) Hello, openmoko community. I have a question regarding future products of Openmoko. Wiki says http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA that GTA03 is actually HXD8, a car navigation system. This claim is based on a post by Michael

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
I'm not sure about my NDA, but this topic has been around quite some while now. So mickeyl says it's about evolution, not revolution. GTA03 -the recycled name- (which I'm working on the electric schematics of the device right now) is an improved version of GTA02 (if plans don't change ;),

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-02 Thread Sergey Volkov
2008/6/3 Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure about my NDA, but this topic has been around quite some while now. So mickeyl says it's about evolution, not revolution. GTA03 -the recycled name- (which I'm working on the electric schematics of the device right now) is an improved

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Jun 2008, at 23:44, Sergey Volkov wrote: ... I have a question regarding future products of Openmoko. ... Could anybody unveil the GTA03 mystery? What are the hardware specs, will the shared-slow-videoRAM-bus issue be fixed (for me it's the main reason to wait for the next device)?

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-02 Thread Stroller
On 3 Jun 2008, at 02:36, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: ... GTA03 -the recycled name- (which I'm working on the electric schematics of the device right now) is an improved version of GTA02 (if plans don't change ;), fixing some bugs/annoyances/EndOfLive-chips-issues of GTA02/FR (like