Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread Evgeny Ginzburg
Niluge KiWi wrote: With the two accelerometers in the FreeRunner, I think we can recognise lots of gestures, not only simple ones like a click (which is already recognised by the accelerometers used in the FreeRunner). The main difficulty is probably to extract the useful data from the gestures

Re: 850MHz or 900MHz? ATT or TMobile?

2008-03-25 Thread Knight Walker
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 00:50 -0700, Lowell Higley wrote: I bought a tri-band phone while I lived in Europe. It is 900Mhz/1900Mhz. I had no problems with it on T-Mobile's USA network while I was their customer. I tend to buy my phones is Asia or Europe because they are unlocked and usually

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread ewanm89
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:02:34 +0100 Niluge KiWi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a student in the french engineer school ENSIMAG, and I would like to work for OpenMoko during the Google Summer of Code. I'm interested in the accelerometers features [1]: Recognising gestures is a really

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-25 Thread Ofek Doron [Ofek BIZ]
Hi Steve, There is a different between countries. It's a legal (rules and regulations) issue. in my county  you can not seal a devises without the ability to seal spare parts. The regulator must to make sure that you have the ability to support the costumers (include hardware

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: Niluge KiWi wrote: With the two accelerometers in the FreeRunner, I think we can recognise lots of gestures, not only simple ones like a click (which is already recognised by the accelerometers used in

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread joerg
Am Di 25. März 2008 schrieb Andy Green: [...] It means that a perfect solution is predicated around - 16 bit integer arithmetic -- ha no float is too easy - per-sample short processing rather than large batching - multiply is expensive (but hey shifting is cheap :-) ) Divide? Hey, for

gsoc 2008 moblog

2008-03-25 Thread David Laurell
Hello OpenMoko communtiy! I'm a student from Sweden and I'm interested in the moblog idea on google summer of code page on the wiki. Does this idea include coding on the server side or is there already a moblog that you should already code a client for? Also how hard is it to learn to make

video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread rakshat hooja
I was going through the hardware specs of the GTA02 once again and was wondering about the possible performance improvements because of the faster processor and the smedia graphics chip. I had three specific questions - 1) will 30 fps VGA res playback be possible? 2) will it be possible to have

Re: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
rakshat hooja wrote: 1) will 30 fps VGA res playback be possible? 2) will it be possible to have 2d transition effects (like MAC OS/ Vista) be possible on the GUI without noticiable wait times. 3) Is any form of 3D acceleration support possible in the future for games? I had those questions

Re: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: rakshat hooja wrote: The answer to all these is with more work (and not with landscape rotation :-)) ) 1) will 30 fps VGA res playback be possible? There is an MP4 decoder in hardware in the Glamo, we

Re: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: I had those questions too, I think that when 3D specs of the Glamo chip will be available, it will be possible to make some 3D-accelerated tasks, but I've no idea about the performances of this chip. Anyway I don't think it's so great... Looking at the smedia

RE: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread Crane, Matthew
What about a mod for dvb-h receiver? Via usb? A driver for external usb device would be feasible. http://www.teamcast.com/en/maj-e/c2a2i12376/products/demodulators/dvb-h-portable-demodulator.htm Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: What about a mod for dvb-h receiver? Via usb? A driver for external usb device would be feasible. http://www.teamcast.com/en/maj-e/c2a2i12376/products/demodulators/dvb-h-portable-demodulator.htm Yes

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread Niluge kiwi
Somebody in the thread at some point said: The raw accelerometer data is predicated around byte data for X Y Z per sample per motion sensor. Ultimately the gesture recognition action is about eating 200 3-byte packets of data a second and issuing only one or two bytes per second about any

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: Somebody in the thread at some point said: The raw accelerometer data is predicated around byte data for X Y Z per sample per motion sensor. Ultimately the gesture recognition action is about eating 200

T9 code and iphone off topic question

2008-03-25 Thread giulio alfano
Hi I would like to know if there is some code in openmoko repository implementing T9 like input method. And if you know some pointers to start prgramming with the iphone. My idea is to write a T9 like system for the iphone and than reuse, and share the code from openmoko project. I have looked in

Re: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread Hans L
rakshat hooja wrote: I had three specific questions - 1) will 30 fps VGA res playback be possible? 2) will it be possible to have 2d transition effects (like MAC OS/ Vista) be possible on the GUI without noticiable wait times. 3) Is any form of 3D acceleration support possible in the future

Re: GSoC volunteer (as student)

2008-03-25 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Hi Patryk, basically the idea is that you come up with something you'd like to work on during this summer of code. The list on the wiki is just something we think would be interesting, by no means complete. So the first step is try to come up with a proposal (you may want to see the

Re: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread Denis
2008/3/25, Hans L [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Which of course leads to question #4: Can it run Quake ;-) And Tuxracer! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-25 Thread steve
Thomas, The logistical difficulty in stocking distributors with spare parts is a very large uncertainity. The fundamental problem is having a spare parts usage model. or consumption model. That is, a model, an estimate, of how many parts to spare. This comes with time and experience. In

RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-25 Thread steve
On Batteries. The battery should be a commodity. as easy to purchase as a AA at your local shop or over the web. So, I've asked Engineering to supply me with a list of replacement batteries that anybody can go out and buy from their local shop or the web. -Original Message- From:

RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-25 Thread steve
Interesting, Which country? how is the list of spare parts determined? A simple question. If you sell a flashlight that takes standard batteries must you hold a stock of 3 years of spare batteries for all your customers? Or if you sell a car must hold 3 years of spare tires in

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-25 Thread ian douglas
Wolfgang Spraul wrote: There are lots of clones of these Nokia batteries, we bought a few and can give you the names. But basically anything BL-4C, BL-5C, BL-6C compatible should work. Just my $0.02 here, but: *Should* work, or *definitely* work? I'd rather not buy a 'maybe' battery and

Re: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread Florent
Or simply clutter... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread Uncle Kridley
Hans L wrote: 3) Is any form of 3D acceleration support possible in the future for games? Which of course leads to question #4: Can it run Quake With accelerometer gestures instead of a joystick! -- -- Dirk Bergstrom [EMAIL

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-25 Thread joerg
Am Mi 26. März 2008 schrieb ian douglas: Wolfgang Spraul wrote: There are lots of clones of these Nokia batteries, we bought a few and can give you the names. But basically anything BL-4C, BL-5C, BL-6C compatible should work. Just my $0.02 here, but: *Should* work, or *definitely*

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-25 Thread Kevin Dean
National warranties aside (I'm a libertarian...) I see certifying aftermarket accessories as a crucial step for Openmoko, or at the v ery least picking ONE that works well with a Neo/Freerunner device. I recently purchased an iGo charger in the USA that claimed it could charger a 100, 500 or 1000

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-25 Thread clare
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: This is pretty much finished on my end. Nokia BL-6C. Allen Lin did tests (we could only get BL-5C so far, also works). There are lots of clones of these Nokia batteries, we bought a few and can give you the names. But basically anything BL-4C,

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-25 Thread joerg
Am Mi 26. März 2008 schrieb clare: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: This is pretty much finished on my end. Nokia BL-6C. Allen Lin did tests (we could only get BL-5C so far, also works). There are lots of clones of these Nokia batteries, we bought a few and can give you