[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
In this case it is a very valid issue and definitely not a complaint
or a whine.
It basically tanks one of the largest consumer bases and it tanks my
project in my company until I find something else.
Well the man at FIC (Michael) said that this issue is being evaluated,
i'm not associated with fic in any way so anything i'm writing is
because i've read the mails coming from this mailing list.
You left out one important part in your mail below.
No, i've left anything because the subject of this mail is regarding the
850MHz issue, GPS is not involved with it.
Will GPS work without trouble, is it in any way affected by the
bandwidth issue.
I would surely think not, but if y0ou want to market this to someone
as a PDA only, then definitely give the complete information sucha as
include GPS usability in NA.
Updates? they are told to us from Michael and there is a wiki page for
them, so if you want to make a business project NEO based you have to
keep in mind that it's still in development and something could go
wrong, the new version (GTA02) will have more hardware like wifi and
openmoko is quite usable now, but i don't know if it's so stable. The
OpenMoko is free software, so you have to read the license saying
something like "if it works ok, if it don't fix it yourself or pay
someone to fixit for you", so i have to say to be careful doing this
choice. Good software and i think i'll enjoy it on the NEO (trying the
qemu versions) but this is from a user/programmer/liunx
fan/geek/everything you want point of view. From a business point of
view you have to consider a lot of factor so you have to wait a stable
release first and get all the updates on that: software firmware
hardware issues.... (i'm doing it for the NEO just to see which are the
progress)
I've wrote that mail only to clarify the situation beacuse anyone was
saying the same thing. I'll buy the NEO, i'll be happy if it will be a
quad band phone, but i don't really mind if it'll be a triband phone
because where i live this is not a problem. Thinking about myself only?
Maybe, but i really care about a NEO which will work fine in my
conuntry, if i have to wait for another revision or two to let this
phone be full quad band to let it working well in the north america,
i'll be happy to wait, no problem. Anything I want is a good device that
work fine, possibly in any country with a GSM compilant network.
I've made a mistake saying that the NEO isn't working with 1900MHz, it's
only not working with the 850MHz one
(hope to be useful and if this email seems not too polite is because of
my english)
Bye!
Pietro
Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano wrote:
So, ok, the NEO does NOT support 850/1900 MHz band, this is an issue,
FIC is informed of that and i think that they are evaluating the
possibilities to make it working, so please just stop crying at the
list "my neo here isn't working..." ok, i understand the problem and
i understand you, but receiving a tons of similar mail is boring.
AFAIK FIC members read the list, and now are just considering some
solutions (at least i hope).
So in conclusion, the replies at the FAQ on this issue are (forgive
me if appear a bit rude but it's due to my english):
I live in north america, i have my NEO dev edition and i can't get
the signal, what i can do?
sell your neo, it's an hardware/firmware/software issue, so it can't
be fixed with a simple software upgrade
I need the 850 support should i buy the neo now?
No you don't have to until you want a good pda whitout the
possibility to make phone calls
I live in NA and i usually stay in my big city, will the neo get the
signal?
May be, it will probably get it but it's not assured, you can try to
verify somehow if the bands supported by the neo are covering your area
What can i do to make the neo supporting those bands?
you can do nothing
What is FIC doing about this?
Don't know, i hope they are considering some solutions for this issue
Last but not least: which are the solutions which FIC is considering?
The solutions are:
1) do nothing, at least for the GTA02, maybe a fix in GTA03 or
something similar
2) produce 2 separate phone, 1 for the NA and another one for the
Rest Of The World (identical phone except the capability to get the
850/1900 band INSTEAD the 900/1800 one)
3) make a nice community poll to ask if the members can wait another
2 month (the time is just something I think) to redesign the hardware
and fix the firmware so that we can have a full quad band phone)
The 3rd solution was not proposed but it's another way to solve the
problem, honestly i don't mind about the quad band, i live in italy
and i don't think i'll ever come to america, if i'll do that i'll use
some other cheap phone, but i think that it's important for other
community member to have it working in quad band way, so i'll wait if
the community will decide to wait and obviously FIC will consider
this solution.
Cya!
Pietro
P.S. We will wait for some FIC official solution.
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