Mass Storage For Phones
From slashdot (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/0124237): Mass Storage For Phones The Demo conference started today, and the first news out of it comes from Seagate, which will be introducing pocket-sized, 20-GB, Bluetooth-equipped drives for cellphones this summer. They call this tech "DAVE" (one wonders whether the acronym or the expansion came first). Quoting: "DAVE-based products will be about the size of a credit card and less than half and inch thick, with an operating range of up to 30 feet from the connected phone... Software to hook the drives up to cellphones has already been produced for J2ME, BREW, Windows Mobile, Symbian and XCCC. Palm compatibility is forthcoming. The platform is open source..." Jeroen Dekkers ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: h.264 format is now open?
At Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:05:49 -0600, el jefe delito wrote: > http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/01/27/0755234.shtml > > It looks like the MP4 (or M4V) video format is now no longer covered by > patents, if I am readig this correctly (and if the article is accurate.) > Due to it being a high-resolution phone, and assuming that we'll watch video > on it anyway, there should be efforts towards implementing this! 1) This is only about the US, not the rest of the world. 2) There are 22 other companies claiming to have patents on H.264: http://www.mpegla.com/avc/avc-licensors.cfm Jeroen Dekkers ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: About GPS, points of interest (and map data)
At Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:47:53 +0100, Pierre Hébert wrote: > In the same idea it would be great if the Neo could help us build a > shared geographic database. With a Neo and a software assistant we could > mark streets, crossroad as we are walking. Of course building a GIS > requires a lot more work than building a database of POI, but with > thousands of Neo in a big city (or perhaps millions soon ;-) ) I guess > that such database will grow rapidly ! I think you're looking for this: http://www.openstreetmap.org Jeroen Dekkers ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?
At Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:16:48 +0100, Fabian Off wrote: > > Am Freitag, 12. Januar 2007 00:01 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz: > > If there's enough interest, it might be cool to just sell the mapping data > > and see if we can support an open source mapping engineer. Is this something > > people would pay for? > > > > -Sean > > Of course they would do so. > Everybody who's paying 350$ for an open-source > phone knows about opensource and it's meaning. > So he (or even she) will understand that costs aren't > for the software itself, but for the mapping data. > And then he'll pay for that, just like for maps for > car-navigation-systems or something like that. Or he will create open source mapping data: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ ;-) Jeroen Dekkers ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
