Microsoft Shift technology (precision pointing without stylus)

2007-05-18 Thread MartinG
Hi list, just want to mention the "Shift" technology that I noticed today - here's the conclusion in the report [1]: "CONCLUSION Shift enables the operation of a pen-based device, such as a PDA or UMPC, with fingers. Our experimental results show that Shift's conditional escalation overcomes occl

Neo Device in London?

2007-05-18 Thread Esra Kummer
Dear community I am currently in London. And I am _really_ eager to have just one time a neo in my hand bevor I have my own one. Is there someone with a neo in Lodon wo could meet me to show the device? In a pub or somewhere you want. The beer or whatever would be on my bill of course. If yo

Making Neo Brickproof, was comments after reading Wiki

2007-05-18 Thread Simon Matthews
It seems to me as someone who designs and makes embedded devices (mainly using the Freescale MC9S12 processors) that you need another lower level bootstrap loader that is small, can be protected and will either jump to the main bootstrap loader if it is functional or be able to download a new 2nd s

Re: Few comments after reading Wiki

2007-05-18 Thread Simon Matthews
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 19:55 -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote: > You'll (almost certainly) be able to do this as well: the new MCU > will allow you to specify which NAND Flash area can be written to. > Once this is set, it cannot be changed without a reset. So this > would be a "hardware assisted"

release date

2007-05-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is the latest release date for the FIC NEO 1973, and where will I be able to buy it? I am holding off on company cellphone purchases until I see what the neo can do as my company is Unix only which makes it very attractive. If it will take till next year it will be lights out and I will buy

Re: release date

2007-05-18 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the latest release date for the FIC NEO 1973, and where will I be able to buy it? I am holding off on company cellphone purchases until I see what the neo can do as my company is Unix only which makes it very attractive. If it will take till next year it will be

Re: release date

2007-05-18 Thread Tomasz Zielinski
2007/5/18, Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: For end-users, it's still September. It definitely doesn't look like the OpenMoko (software) will be ready in 3 months. -- Tomek Z. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.o

Re: release date

2007-05-18 Thread Rich Goodwin
OK ... you peaked my interest. I understand not giving it to many others to use but as long as a one can make/receive a call - that is all I'd expect at this point. Is it a functional phone?? More importantly, are there any H/W mods planned? and will the developer version be upgradable? I'm sti

Re: release date

2007-05-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Tomasz Zielinski wrote: 2007/5/18, Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: For end-users, it's still September. It definitely doesn't look like the OpenMoko (software) will be ready in 3 months. I had doubts about the originalish schedule of Feb->Sep. May->Sep is challenging. I think it's probabl