Re: moko13 firmware
> Am 11.10.2017 um 08:17 schrieb Mychaela Falconia > : > > Sure, if someone pays for the cost of making new moulds. So let merephrase: how do you think to get someone pay for it? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: moko13 firmware
H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > So let merephrase: how do you think to get someone pay for it? By spreading the message as far and wide as I can that making new Calypso phones and modems (be they GTA02 clones or semi-clones, or my proposed Libre Dumbphone, or my proposed FC modem in SMT module form factor) IS possible, and that there is a small company able and ready to do the job given the necessary funding. I shall keep spreading this message far and wide until it reaches the ears of someone who sees the idea as a positive and who has the needed money. M~ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: moko13 firmware
> Am 11.10.2017 um 09:26 schrieb Mychaela Falconia > : > > H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > >> So let merephrase: how do you think to get someone pay for it? > > By spreading the message as far and wide as I can that making new > Calypso phones and modems (be they GTA02 clones or semi-clones, or my > proposed Libre Dumbphone, or my proposed FC modem in SMT module form > factor) IS possible, and that there is a small company able and ready > to do the job given the necessary funding. Well, with necessary funding Goldelico would be mass producing a GTA17 this year which would beat the latest iPhones and alike in quality, user-experience, functionality and openness. If we get enough funding, we can even get proper FCC/CE certification and modify the standards so that a free&open modem can be certified. It is all just a matter of getting a big enough budget... Unfortunately, free&open is contradicting big-budget. Like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. > I shall keep spreading > this message far and wide until it reaches the ears of someone who > sees the idea as a positive and who has the needed money. In that case, please convince him/her to spend money for more important things. Like fighting diseases (incl. dictatorship and nationalism) and rescuing endangered species (like homo sapiens). ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: moko13 firmware
H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Well, with necessary funding Goldelico would be mass producing a GTA17 > this year which would beat the latest iPhones and alike in quality, > user-experience, functionality and openness. The amount of funding I would need in order to turn my post-FCDEV3B hw ideas into reality would be far less than what you would need for what you just described. Specifically, I would only need about 2 kUSD to finish some work on FCDEV3B which needs to be finished before any follow-up FreeCalypso hw project can be started (I'll cover this part myself in a few months after I'm done with the current round of family expenses), and then another 10 kUSD to do any one of the following: Option 1: reverse-eng the PCB layout of BenQ's M32 module (historical Calypso-based) and make a FreeCalypso modem module in the same SMT form factor. Option 2: for the FreeCalypso Libre Dumbphone idea, produce a bare board with the functionality of this dumbphone, i.e., a dumbphone sans case, allowing ad hoc wooden cases and such. Option 3: produce a clone of OM's GTA02 motherboard (either verbatim or with changes like Glamo-ectomy), bare, no case, no WLAN/BT add-ons, plus new Toppoly displays from Alibaba. Whoever donates the needed 10 kUSD gets to pick which of the above 3 options is to be done. I cannot guarantee that each of the 3 can be fully done to the finish line for that 10 kUSD, but 10 kUSD is all I would need to get the ball rolling, and it would get more than 50% of the job done. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression that for your ideas you would need a lot more than 10 kUSD. M~ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
