Re: tangoGPS, a new gps mapping software for the Neo

2008-02-23 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
index.php/User:Onion/MapperMarcus Bauer ha scritto: Hello, I wrote tangoGPS, a small but fast gps and mapping software for Openmoko/Neo. It uses openstreetmap.org maps, downloading them on demand and caching them. You can drag the map, zoom in and out and see your current position and track

Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-02-24 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
JW ha scritto: On 24/02/2008, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found dasher to be very usable with a mouse. Well, after few minutes of use I felt more confortable with it, but I'm always slower (I think) than using other mobile inputs... Anyway while writing in english with it was much

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
David Pottage ha scritto: If FIC setup a web shop in a European country with a low sales tax rate such as Belgum, Europeans buying Freerunner phones could save around 10% compared with buying from a German web shop. In Italy it's 20%, not the best, but reading I discover that it isn't

Re: Picture Viewer geocaching

2008-02-27 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
David Samblas Martinez ha scritto: To be able to do this a gps traker log has to be recorded previously on the neo (for sure this will be a default feature on the neo) , the digital camera has to be time syncroniced with the neo (any digital camera can change his hour/date in the setup) and

Re: Idea of a voice mail application

2008-02-29 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
siaPeter Trapp ha scritto: Hi everybody, I thought about the possibility of a voice mail installed on the neo. The idea is to let the application decide if you are reachable for the caller or not. The decision will be done on profiles (time, who is calling, what to do (let it ring or answer

Re: Idea of a voice mail application

2008-02-29 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano ha scritto: In italy the caller will pay for the call but the recipient no, as a recipient if the caller will leave the message on the carrier message box (don't know how to translate, pardon) i have to call it and listen the messages in a slw and bad way, paying

Re: GTA02 Battery Capacity (Was: Re: More about the GTA02)

2008-02-29 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Green ha scritto: Somebody in the thread at some point said: - charge from any host (incl simplistic chargers): 100mA (6-12h) - charge from intelligent host: 500mA (1-2h) - charge from quickcharger with magic R: 1500mA (1h) This is pretty accurate Joerg but on this last one the total

Re: GTA02 Battery Capacity (Was: Re: More about the GTA02)

2008-03-01 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Green ha scritto: Depends on what you're doing with it... is the backlight on all the time... making a call... I can't give you a straight answer because I didn't examine this yet. Instead I spent all my time around power consumption looking to optimize suspend current since that can

Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-03-01 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Karsten Ensinger ha scritto: I am afraid, I have to admit that I have NOT tried the Trolltech stuff at all. Maybe because I thought I would deceive the openmoko movement by trying other stuff on the Neo. ;-) I will give it a try until next weekend and will change my mind if it is as cool as you

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-03 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andrea Debortoli ha scritto: It's an hard thing to tell if it could be useful or not...it's a totally new feature (I've never seen something similar), and I think we can evaluate it with practical test only. I've an old iFeel Logitech mouse with haptic support (vibrate on actions). Under

Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Jeff Andros ha scritto: On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:23:07 +0100, kenneth marken wrote: like pidgin for im support of any kind. Now *that* is a cool idea :) probably not pidgin itself, it's

Re: Audio wired Headset

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
ian douglas ha scritto: Am Di 4. März 2008 schrieb Gilles Casse: Is it possible to buy a new audio wired headset from OpenMoko.inc? Otherwise, where can we get one please (OpenMoko distributor?). I mentioned to Michael at SCALE 2008 that having a 'store' where we could buy stray parts, like

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
joerg ha scritto: I'm investigating to squeeze some multi-touch properties out of the GTA02 4wire-resistor touchscreen, by hacking the basics and probing the ts in a couple non-recommended completely different manners. There still is a little hope... What's your hope exactly? Do you have

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Federico ha scritto: So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone? maybe pressing the shift key for typing uppercase letters :P Not so useful imho... We don't write so quickly on small-screen based devices to need a combination-input. For istance, the iPhone has not a such feature

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Ortwin Regel ha scritto: If there will ever be a dedicated OpenMoko gaming device, it needs a multitouch screen. Well, yes I think it won't be possible to run games with an on-screen virtual gamepad as the iPhone/iPodTouch does. Do I am wrong? However, with a phone, even if it is a fully

Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
kenneth marken ha scritto: On Wednesday 05 March 2008 00:08:02 ian douglas wrote: If I recall, the iPhone is a 3G phone, but only uses EDGE on 3G, the slowest speed. I have a friend with an iPhone, I'll ask if I can borrow his SIM to see if it'll connect to ATT on my Neo later this week. i

GTA02v6: any rumor?

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
It has been mentioned on svn logs: http://tinyurl.com/2wfsmk What will be the differences with GTA02v5? Maybe also echo audio fixes [1]? I'm becoming every day more curious about this new device...! :P [1] http://tinyurl.com/2j5ca7 -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/

Re: tangoGPS 0.7 is out - lots of improvements

2008-03-06 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marcus Bauer ha scritto: On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 01:37 +0100, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Looking at the demos it seems to be a really good project, the support for the OSM maps is good, but what about integrating support for libgarmin to allow using also free and commercial garmin maps

Re: hand charger for neo

2008-03-11 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Robin Paulson ha scritto: i spend a fair part of my time away from power points/computers and having recently got a hand-crank powered torch, i realise this would be the way to go for re-charging my neo. I've one too... I've some connectors for commercial phones, but I don't know how I could

Re: Using Wi-fi on Neo FreeRunner

2008-03-12 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
mac2k ha scritto: If planning on using a FreeRunner as phone over WiFi you're better off finding some SIP VoIP provider than using Skype with its's proprietary protocol. Why use closed software if the open source alternative could do a better job. I do totally agree with this, btw a skype

Re: OpenMoko and accessories design

2008-03-13 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michele Renda ha scritto: As attachment there is an image that explain better my idea (png format) Really cool... I had this idea too some weeks ago :P -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: OpenMoko and accessories design

2008-03-13 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Green ha scritto: You're right, alternatively one with a short cable. Really this should be part of the kit since you just can't actually use USB host without it. I'm very happy to read this...! -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/

Re: Openmoko at OpenExpo

2008-03-15 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Alexandre Ghisoli wrote: We have seen the Freerunner working; it's quite fast and responsive with a funny lock screen saying something about an Fruit Phone. No videos for us? :P -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ ___

Re: where The SMS message save?

2008-03-16 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Magnus Alvestad ha scritto: They are saved in evolution files in the root home directory. I don't remember the exact path, but it's something like: ~root/.evolution/memos/memos.evo Since When I'll have a freerunner I'd like to import my SMSs saved in my actual mobile, I'd like to know the

Re: where The SMS message save?

2008-03-16 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Green wrote: Somebody in the thread at some point said: Do you have some examples to post? Thanks! I didn't know any of this until Magnus said, but it seems it is like this, additional texts appear between additional BEGIN:VJOURNAL / END:VJOURNAL # cat

Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-16 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano ha scritto: 1) The Freerunner IS free, there are only some firmware things that aren't open and that never will be open but they are only firmware, even your PC run something which is not open source (BIOS, graphic card firmware, cdrom firmware, every kind of firmware

Re: Neo Freerunner manufacturing status

2008-03-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michael Shiloh ha scritto: Hi everyone, I just received a status report from our VP of Marketing, Steve Mosher: The Freerunner design is currently staged to go through Production Validation Test (PVT). The hardware design A5 is, we believe, solid. We are updating this design to A6 to

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Powell wrote: 400USD != 400EUR If this is an indication of the pricing for Europe, please arrange for some European versions to get shipped to the USA where we can buy them and have them shipped to Europe. I do agree with you...! -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Powell wrote: TRIsoft 399$ would make 257 EUR TRIsoft Shipping from China / Taiwan / US appr. $70 to Europe TRIsoft is $469, makes 302 EUR TRIsoft plus 19% VAT is 360 EUR for a self import at the actual price. Well, I don't think that a seller buys the shipping of each phone $70... Maybe

Re: Further details of theprocess as we ramp up production of Freerunner

2008-03-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michael Shiloh wrote: If the community would like, I will update them on each and every stage. (I've already answered yes for all of you :-) Ehehe... I think you couldn't say differently :). We're all waiting for DVT news, so! :P -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/

Re: freerunnter - get it over trisoft

2008-03-20 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Ivo Anjo wrote: Yeah, I agree, lack of usb host cable sucks, it is one of my favorite features. I agree too, btw it's a few-euros device... -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Neo Freerunner manufacturing status

2008-03-20 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Ugo Raffaele wrote: I agree! One day I brought my Neo at school, going on foot to test the AGPS reicever. It was *very* difficult to read on the screen! Mhmmh... This might be a great problem... I heard/understood a completely different thing about the Neo LCD! Anyway I won't change my

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 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: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-26 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
joerg wrote: AFAIK, the BL-?C will fit and power the device, but like bat for GTA01 they have no telemetry (smart bat). So you won't get a bat-fuel-indicator with nokia bat. Charging isn't quite tested i think. That's an important thing imho...! Then I've read a thread on the kernel list

Re: More than a phone with a GPS navigator

2008-03-27 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: * Track recall: if the device stores all your movements (or a rough list of areas visited) for the last few days, you could recall where you've been, when you came somewhere and when you left, which is sometimes handy. This includes finding that place again if you

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Alessandro Iurlano wrote: Anyway I accept the idea of using commercial apps/maps until there's nothing of usable for free and freely, since generally such tools become useful when we're traveling in unknown places, and so that we can't map on OMS without the help of others! If everyone

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-28 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Alessandro Iurlano wrote: My area too is poorly mapped. But what I think is that once someone start using a commercial program because they need it, they will never get back to a free project if it is not yet able to deliver the same service. That's untrue for me: also if sometimes I started

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-01 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michael Shiloh ha scritto: A generic solution can be built this way: 1. Locate a generic USB car charger e.g. http://www.daydeal.com/product.php?productid=10892. Make sure it can supply at least 1A. Note in my example that the specs don't say this, but if you look at the picture carefully

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-03 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Mike Baroukh wrote: Very good Idea ! just : if it has been stolen, the sim card will be changed. So may be, each time the sim card is changed, an sms could automatically be send to another number (so you have the new phone number and can continue to communicate with it ...). Or, if gprs works,

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michele Renda ha scritto: When I steal the phone, the first thing that I will do is to turn off the phone. Then because I am afraid to be detected by cell I will change the internal sim, before to turn on it. Well, this is true but sending data on next power-on could help. BTW, here we're

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michele Renda ha scritto: According you is possible to prepare it with an qemu emulated system? Or is necessary to have the true hardware? AFAIK you can simply install Openmoko stack in any hardware, also in a standard PC, simply follow the wiki [1]! [1] http://tinyurl.com/6bkfpj --

Re: customized CPE - Android Openmoko

2008-04-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marcus Bauer wrote: For all those who have missed it out, there is a company named Koolu which is going to sell the Neo with Android. [1] CTO of Koolu is Jon 'maddog' Hall, quite a well known personality. As another note, they just changed availability for developers from March to June. Thus if

Re: Web Browser?

2008-04-06 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marcus Bauer wrote: The current browser is based on webkit and has Javascript, DOM etc. However, the CPU is to slow and the screen to small. Much more fun is 'links' which does have a graphics mode and simply ignores most CSS. But it is blazingly fast and many pages are better readable with it

Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-04-06 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: interesting you mention this. i actually thought of using aspell as the core of a probability and correction matching engine, but as such it's api isn't sufficient to use it. That was my idea/hope too... so anyway- aspell would have been great - it'd

Re: Product Update

2008-04-06 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
steve ha scritto: Moved onto the next stage PVT. Verifying the design for Production. This stage is always a bit annoying Because the temptation is to throw the switch and build a billion phones. There are three PVT builds scheduled And the first has been completed. The completed handsets will

Re: Web Browser?

2008-04-07 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
ewanm89 wrote: On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:07:27 +0200 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcus Bauer wrote: The current browser is based on webkit and has Javascript, DOM etc. However, the CPU is to slow and the screen to small. Much more fun is 'links' which does have a graphics

Re: Speeding up browsing and lightening the traffic load

2008-04-07 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Mikko Rauhala ha scritto: ma, 2008-04-07 kello 11:24 +0200, Erland Lewin kirjoitti: IMHO, the Opera Mini design (compressing and optimizing web pages before sending them to the phone) is excellent, because it saves traffic (=money) and speeds up loading. I'm not aware of any open source

Re: Battery life on GTA02

2008-04-09 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Alexander Frøyseth ha scritto: Helo What is the current battery lifetime on GTA02? I was asking this too in other lists, but there unfortunately are no official/semi-official/unofficial reports from any of the GTA02 owners yet. This is an important issue, but I've not read so many words...

Re: Who is who ?

2008-04-10 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: As many people, I guess, I sometime wonder if a certain person answering a question on this mailing list or an other is trustful or not. To exactly know who is who, I propose to make a list of members on the wiki. Cause I didn't found such a page, I created one

Smart LCD birght/dim...

2008-04-11 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Since Freerunner won't have an hardware light sensor to set its LCD brightness, I got some ideas about smartly changing the luminance of the GTA02 screen to save its battery (still with an unknown life time :/). Of course they aren't and never will be precise as an hardware sensor is, but it's

Re: next costumers location

2008-04-11 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano ha scritto: What about a nice wiki page telling if you want to buy a neo where do you live and an email to contact? This could be useful to take the advantage to buy 10 neo at a time and then giving it to each one who was accorded. Let me explain, i want a neo, i'm from

Re: Smart LCD bright/dim...

2008-04-11 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Ops... Sorry for the title typo :P -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Quikwriting

2008-04-12 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
ramsesoriginal ha scritto: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quikwriting is the best input method for finger input on a small touchscreen like the Neo's that I have come across. http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/demos/quikwriting.html There have been positive

Re: LCD protector

2008-04-12 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Ajit Natarajan wrote: A friend of mine who owns an iPhone purchased an LCD protector. It is a sheet of clear material cut to the dimensions of the LCD screen. When affixed to the screen, it doesn't affect touch screen operation. However, it resists scratching and fingerprints can simply be

Re: next costumers location

2008-04-12 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Federico Lorenzi wrote: I agree, btw I think that it will be cheaper also if on a city we can't group 10 people, simply we'll order on the most requested city, and from there we'll ship to other buyers... Standard shipping in Italy should be just 8€ more: that's definitely lower than 30$ :P...

Re: Quikwriting

2008-04-12 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: ramsesoriginal ha scritto: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quikwriting is the best input method for finger input on a small touchscreen like the Neo's that I have come across. http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/demos

Re: warranty

2008-04-13 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Alexander Frøyseth ha scritto: What are the warrenty? I figure that in Europe, if you buy regulary from a seller, it will be included in the extra-price you'll have to pay here (that includes VAT, battery recycling, warranty and more...). -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-13 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Lowell Higley ha scritto: 1) include the custom (closed) cable or at least make it an option I do agree with this... Also if the cable is sold only by Openmoko it should be there, since it's a so important thing for using the phone as a standard phone (I not always have my PC around, and

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-13 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
steve ha scritto: This is a very difficult issue. . Let me Nutshell it. Imho, not so much! 1. We have a custom charger that can fast charge the phone. 2. Standard usb chargers will work just fine. [CUT] Some people philosophically believe we shouldn't do custom chargers. So, I get to

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-13 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
steve ha scritto: Many people have voiced there opinion to me about what EXTRAS they would like in the box ( most of them legal) so, the team will make a decision. We won't please everybody, but it will be a rational decision, based on cost of the extra goodies, availability, and importance, and

Re: LCD protector

2008-04-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Jose Luis Perez Diez wrote: I Use a A4 sheet of laser printer for overhead projectors film. I printed a grid 46 mm x 60mm on the sheet the I cut the protectors on demand. They fit nicely if the are inserted first on the left side of the neo. That kind of sheets are generally thicker, but how

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Ivo Anjo wrote: Finally, the miniSD card, DEFINITELY leave it off, unless you get a really really really good deal, because you can buy very high-capacity nowadays, so it doesn't make much sense to pay for 512mb or such on the neo, and then buy a multi-gb one (I am definitely getting one of

Re: Charger?

2008-04-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marcus Bauer wrote: So essentially the Neo asks hey, can I have 500mA? and there is no answer. The Neo then plays safe and pulls only 100mA as to the USB standard. But the Neo can pop-up a dialog asking you hey guy, there is some unknown charger, I currently take only 100mA, shall I pull more

Re: USB host compatible devices

2008-04-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
openmoko wrote: I have a question about the USB host feature ... Could it be possible to use a traditional USB keyboard with this feature ? (Enough power ? Compatible plugs ?) I figure this is possible... Can we get an adapter to be able to plug any traditional USB devices ? (USB storage

Re: PVT Update.

2008-04-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
steve wrote: 1. A final release of software to the factory. Bug Fixing will go on after this, but the image we commit is one we will stick with for a while. Don't ask me what a while is. I'll talk about the software release late Next week and let you all know what made it into the first

Re: LCD protector

2008-04-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you attach it to the phone? I have uploaded a video to youtube http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=9enAgqLWeX0 So you're simply putting the protector under the phone case? Doesn't it move around? -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/

Re: Battery time?

2008-04-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Tim Shannon wrote: I think that has been one of the top unanswered questions on many peoples minds. I don't think we've gotten a solid answer yet, but I'm sure it will come in time. Exactly... We've asked this also few days ago [1], but we didn't get any answer. I really hope that this is

Re: LCD protector

2008-04-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ha scritto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you attach it to the phone? I have uploaded a video to youtube http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=9enAgqLWeX0 So you're simply putting the protector under the phone case? Doesn't it move around? Ah... And I forgot: what

Re: home zone functionality, use voip for this?

2008-04-17 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Crane, Matthew wrote: There is no search on the mailing list so I'm not sure if this has been discussed previously. Has anybody tested voip with openmoko? Maybe is an easy way to implement a cheap home-zone. There's no search officially, but you can get it using GMANE:

Re: LCD protector

2008-04-17 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: I also planned to buy some screen protectors for the freerunner... Reading comments on the net I've heard that the best ones are the Brando (they've a site shipping worldwide, but I can't find it now) anyway I don't really know if it's an hoax or not... BTW

Re: Unofficial poll: Do you want 3G in the proposed successor, GTA03?

2008-04-17 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michele Renda wrote: Ps. Someone know if exist a standalone QWERTY keyboard with mini usb connector that can be used with freerunner? My girlfriend will be very very happy :) I don't know about mini-usb one, but I know about a mini-bluetooth keyboard [1], that really sounds better to my

Re: Unofficial poll: Do you want 3G in the proposed successor, GTA03?

2008-04-17 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michele Renda ha scritto: I hope to find one not too much expensive. To buy the Freerunner, I have already vincolated the Cristmas presents for next 5 years :) Ah, ok... :D Btw I think that it's better for you looking for a mini-keyboard with standard USB connector (eBay can be your friend!),

Re: Freerunner will be GTA02v5 or GTA02v6? (was: Fwd: Future Button and LED software spec)

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andrea Debortoli wrote: I think nobody will buy a GTA02v5 knowing that a better revision will be available some days after... I will too, but only because I can't wait longer :( I'm not so happy about this decision, btw... -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/

Re: Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michael Shiloh wrote: Andy Powell wrote: On Friday 18 April 2008 18:34, Michael Shiloh wrote: The Neo Freerunner can charge most rapidly when it can pull 1 Amp from the power supply connected to the USB socket. However, not all chargers or computers can provide this much current. It might

Re: Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michael Shiloh wrote: When the Neo Freerunner detects that power has been provided at the USB port, it will attempt to draw only 100mA. This minimum is mandated by the USB standard. This amount of current is insufficient to both power the Neo Freerunner (or even just its backlight) and to

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Stroller wrote: On 13 Apr 2008, at 17:44, steve wrote: Not sure I understand what you mean by final Inventory. The STANDARD box contents will be a Phone and Battery. I expect to add some other goodies, but only for the first few thousand buyers. Many people have voiced there opinion to me

Re: Freerunner will be GTA02v5 or GTA02v6? (was: Fwd: Future Button and LED software spec)

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Green ha scritto: Somebody in the thread at some point said: 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

Re: Don't ship GTA02v5 without the rework

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andrea Debortoli wrote: 2008/4/19, Kevin Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is quite possible to make your statement by NOT purchasing a v5 unit and waiting for a v6. Choosing to wait yourself, without passing the delay and costs onto everyone else is the most ethical, polite way to solve the problem.

Re: Freerunner will be GTA02v5 or GTA02v6? (was: Fwd: Future

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Bobby Martin wrote: Personally, I want the hardware to be as good as OM knows how to make it, so I'm waiting for v6 before I buy. I don't see any reason to delay the purchase for all the people who want to buy a v5 now, though. Marco, you would have to wait either way - either everyone waits

Re: Freerunner will be GTA02v5 or GTA02v6?

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
steve wrote: As I recall. There is an LED under the aux button an LED on the face of the device and an LED under the power button. According to what I've read [1] there are just two leds, but one of these (the one under the power button) has two kind of light (blue/red). [1]

Re: Don't ship GTA02v5 without the rework

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Mikko Rauhala wrote: And the point was? Yeah, the point. There was one here somewhere, let me look for it. Oh yeah. Here it is: Nothing. Will. Ever. Be. Perfect. I know this and I never asked for a perfect device, I do really know that this LED(s) issue is just a minor problem, but I

Re: Neo Freerunner Quickstart Guide

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
steve wrote: My FR has two speaker holes, but I do recall the spec being mono. perhaps that was just on Bluetooth. Some time ago I heard that the device was mono, but with two speakers (pushing out the same sound). Is this wrong? -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/

Re: Don't ship GTA02v5 without the rework

2008-04-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Fahrstuhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heya, the wiki-page about the Freerunner hardware states that issue would be resolved in the GTA02v5 mass production phones. [1] A6 will be fine tune version of A5, only minor

Re: Don't ship GTA02v5 without the rework - reply

2008-04-20 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Neng-Yu Tu (Tony Tu) ha scritto: This confusion comes from time latency of series of events, but no matter A5 or A6 should all apply the LED transistor change. I already update all the changes that shipping A5 will apply.

Re: 99

2008-04-20 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
steve ha scritto: I'll gladly put the price back to $650 which was the first price we released. LOL... BTW for me you can also put the price at 398 for staying a little more far from 399... :P -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/

Re: 99 vs RED (or was it PINK) Phone cases

2008-04-21 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: and YES I agree, the remaining V5 vs V6 issues seem small (but we did get extra info and clarification, thanks Tony). BTW, there is a way to work around the v5 issue in software. Because the LED in an unmodified v5 shines 6 or so times as bright as it should (and

Re: Steve on V5 versus v6

2008-04-21 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
steve wrote: The phone fits snuggly in a bed of foam, carved precisely to fit its form. Well, looking at the photos taken by Michael (coverOffTrayRemoved*.jpg and coverTrayTriangle*.jpg first of all) it seems that under the phone's bed of foam there's enough space for pushing a pouch, isn't

Re: photographs of box and POSSIBLE contents of Neo Freerunner

2008-04-21 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michael Shiloh wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for those photographs helping us waiting for the device. PS : Your camera doesn't seem to be a very good one ;) Anyone wishing to send me a better camera is welcome to do so :-) Well, I think the problem isn't on the camera

Re: photographs of box and POSSIBLE contents of Neo Freerunner

2008-04-21 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
ramsesoriginal wrote: Thank you. Wow. Finally, something real, after all this talking about the freerunners. all that misses now is one of those babys in my hands :D I agree... Finally we can see a box that seems quite ready to be shipped to all us :P, btw good photos of the phone with

Re: Openmoko sounds, Motto

2008-04-22 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Tomas Di Domenico wrote: Actually, I'd say that GPL would be more correctly associated to free than open. It's a shame that free in english is primarily associated to free as in beer in this context, though, which causes all the controversy already discussed around Free your phone. I love that

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Lucas Bonnet wrote: during one of my presentation of the Openmoko project, I mentionned the ability to know which GSM cell the Neo is connected to. This allows some approximate geolocating, provided you know the position of the GSM cells. It could be useful in an urban environment, where GPS

Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics

2008-04-23 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Patrick Davila wrote: http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/04/22/side-by-side-video-windows-mobile-and-embedded-linux/ You have to admit the bling looks pretty. Yes... And that's only on a Neo... Freerunner that will have a better CPU that surely will allow to get really better performances

Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics

2008-04-23 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Tilman Baumann wrote: Just a question: the widgets shown are they running on X? It seems they are since you can see kwin running with the KDE default style. And... If I'm right, this means that we could run Qt apps like these also in Openmoko (I mean without X reboot :P), isn't it? Regular

Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics

2008-04-23 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: (both gtk/qt/qtopia/qopenmoko) :P Just a typo, eh! I meant just openmoko :P -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics)

2008-04-24 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: what freerunner *IS* good at is nice high resolution still images. it is NOT good at motion (animation). that's possibly the simplest way i know to describe its graphics :) great for ebook and text reading. great for your high-res photos. don't expect a

Re: Youtube Video Playback on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner?)

2008-04-24 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: i can say now - 320x240 mpeg4 video with mplayer using xvideo on the gta02 even can't play at 30fps. i was wrong with my guess. it is dropping 25% of the frames. so as such actually i correct this. i was too optimistic. you can more likely manage 20fps @

Re: Youtube Video Playback on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner?)

2008-04-25 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:38:24 +0200 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Another format that maybe works on streaming (if I've not misunderstood what has been stated) is * 5: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flv file no - not going to work. 21fps

Re: Ugliness (was Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!)

2008-04-26 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Schmidt András wrote: I myself and all people I talked to think that that the black one has no style. Also the orange-white looks cool. I don't agree... Imho the black one is more professional... I loved the Black/silver before but now I think that the full-black version is the best. The

Re: ARMv4 rating

2008-04-26 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Martin Bernreuther wrote: the Neo 1973 (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973_hardware#Processor) as well as the Neo Freerunner (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware#Processor) have Processors based on the ARMv4 instruction Set. Apparently one consequence (stated on

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