As there are speculations about the new modem for a while, I recently checked out what we might get. There's really not much information about the Siemens MC75i modem around, but there's at least a very basic datasheet: http://mc75.ru/lib/datasheet_mc75_eng.pdf The dimensions it states is, that it's a 35x35x3.5mm package (a announcement about the MC75i said, that it's using the same package) - compared to the current 2-chip solution from TI (10x10 + 7x7) this takes up at least 6 times the space. So I wonder - where will you find the space in a device that is hopefully not as huge as the neo (at least not as thick) to get this in?
Like said before: there is not much information about this device, but for me it doesn't look like a module to be used in a small smartphone. It might fit in a bigger PDA, in a notebook or in some kind of blackbox, but is this device really supposed to be in a smartphone? On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Wolfgang Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > some Openmoko engineering news about last week from Taipei perspective :-) > > Monday: 3 people from Cinterion (former part of Siemens) came to our Taipei > office. A while back we decided to use their GSM modules in upcoming > products, to replace our outdated TI Calypso. We are very happy to work with > them, and they offered even more engineering help and marketing > opportunities. They confirmed again that the MC75i would be available in > quantity in October. > > Monday: Matt and Shawn started our independent hardware lab, Moko Foresight > (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MokoForesight). Our ambitious goal is to > have one place across products to scout, analyze and write proof-of-concept > drivers for new open source compatible chips and modules. This will also > important to drive hardware design outsourcing plans and keep our > outsourcing partners 'on track' with regards to our openess requirements. > > Tuesday: Had a great kick-off meeting with a phone hardware design house in > Shanghai. For Openmoko it's the second outsourced design house after we > started working with a small two people design team in Berlin recently. We > are very excited about this new collaboration because over time it will > allow Openmoko to work on more designs in parallel, and to focus on our real > strength of working on the 'openess' features. This does not mean we will > reduce our internal hardware team or lab, in fact we will invest into more > people and equipment to keep the outsourced design firms going in the right > direction. > > Wednesday: Released GTA01 and GTA02 schematics. Joerg and Allen worked for > over a week to cleanup the schematics, fix typos, fonts, clarify NDA issues, > fix technical inaccuracies, make sure the resulting PDF is both screen and > printer and Linux friendly, etc. etc. You can find the results at > http://downloads.openmoko.org/schematics/ > > Thursday: Moko Foresight published some reports written over the last few > months, see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MokoForesight, from Gsmart MS800 > over HTC Touch to iPhone 3G. Check it out... > > Friday: Released long awaited Om 2008.8 software update. I think feelings > of many of us are best summed up by Holger in his post at > http://zecke.blogspot.com/2008/08/releasing-software-to-wild.html > We know there are many things that can be improved, two items stood out: > PIN dialog not working, full qwerty keyboard and terminal missing. Still, it > was a big milestone for us, read Holger's post for more details... > > More next week, Best Regards, > Wolfgang > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > >
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