Re: Neo1973/OpenMoko as a laptop replacement

2007-11-18 Thread Andrzej Jan Taramina
Ted sed: What I'd like to see is someone (FIC?) making a computer *like* the Neo that's a real laptop replacement. 1Ghz ARM, DVI out, 640x480 screen just like what we have in the Neo, runs slow when it's on batteries, fast when it's plugged in, a couple gigabytes of flash, an external hard

Fwd: Questions about OpenMoko web browser

2007-11-18 Thread Holger Freyther
Hey, some one feels like answering Mr. Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente questions? z. Jose: This is a community project why do you think it is better to pick one person (me) instead of asking our community? You just took some of my valuable spare time which means I will have less time

Re: Gphone isn't open, linux dev not possible

2007-11-18 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Nov 16, 2007 11:55 PM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of interest: how does one 'uncompress' a *.jffs file? mount it, copy the contents out. I'm on Ubuntu 7.10 (i386). What do I need in addition to the loop module: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# losetup -v /dev/loop0

RDS/RBDS FM receiver (external) for traffic conditions

2007-11-18 Thread Joshua Layne
Hi All, A lot of my personal interest is in context-aware aps (particularly with the embedded GPS) and (unfortunately) I spend a fair bit of time in my car each day. It would be really nice to get traffic updates to the neo as an enhancement to any mapping/navigation programs. and *no*, this

Re: RDS/RBDS FM receiver (external) for traffic conditions

2007-11-18 Thread Doug Sutherland
Josh, I have the USB FM radio stick. A USB audio device does appear when it's plugged in. However, there is no audio until the FM radio app is run. This does SPI communication with the SI4701 to init and change its settings. They claim it uses standard USBaudio for the sound and that they use

Re: RDS/RBDS FM receiver (external) for traffic conditions

2007-11-18 Thread Doug Sutherland
A USB audio device does appear when it's plugged in. However, there is no audio until the FM radio app is run. This does SPI communication with the SI4701 to init and change its settings. Yikes that was a poor description. Let me try that again. There is a micrcontroller onboard the USB FM

Re: RDS/RBDS FM receiver (external) for traffic conditions

2007-11-18 Thread Joshua Layne
Doug Sutherland wrote: Josh, I have the USB FM radio stick. A USB audio device does appear when it's plugged in. However, there is no audio until the FM radio app is run. This does SPI communication with the SI4701 to init and change its settings. They claim it uses standard USBaudio for

Re: GTK vs QTopia vs Android - (was: Re: Android needsapplications) (will be: new vision for openmoko)

2007-11-18 Thread Lorn Potter
Marcelo Lira wrote: From my POV, when people at OpenMoko decided on GTK for its paltform they are giving developers the ability to participate and influence *directly* on its development, and create great apps, both opensource and proprietary, without paying any license fees. The Nokia

Re: RDS/RBDS FM receiver (external) for traffic conditions

2007-11-18 Thread Doug Sutherland
Josh wrote: I have always thought of HID as using an external device that then communicates to the computer, this is using a virtual app on the computer to control an external device - I don't disagree that it is Human Interface. Aside from keyboards and mice, this idea is exactly what

Re: RDS/RBDS FM receiver (external) for traffic conditions

2007-11-18 Thread Joshua Layne
Doug Sutherland wrote: Josh wrote: I have always thought of HID as using an external device that then communicates to the computer, this is using a virtual app on the computer to control an external device - I don't disagree that it is Human Interface. Aside from keyboards and mice,

Re: FM radio reception on neo/openmoko and some other questions

2007-11-18 Thread Joshua Layne
somehow I missed this entirely (although I know I read it) I apologize for jumping threads and starting a new topic - it wasn't even a week ago j. Doug Sutherland wrote: Georg wrote: no only in terms of speakerphone, also the navigational software (as far as there'll be one) may be

Re: RDS/RBDS FM receiver (external) for traffic conditions

2007-11-18 Thread Doug Sutherland
Josh wrote: One of the apparent weaknesses of the Si USB dongles (from my armchair research) is the antenna connection - it might be nice to have a mini SMA or something (with the standard FM resistance -- 75 Ohms?) Yeah the USB FM Radio stick has a wire sticking out, that is the antenna.

Re: GTK vs QTopia vs Android - (was: Re: Android needsapplications) (will be: new vision for openmoko)

2007-11-18 Thread Lorn Potter
Marcelo Lira wrote: License fees for Qtopia (and Qt) are a pittance compared to the fees of even one engineer for one year for any company Yes I agree with you before you said it: Look that the pricing is not the most importante issue You can influence directly the development of Qtopia

Re: Gphone isn't open, linux dev not possible

2007-11-18 Thread Doug Sutherland
The idea is that cellphone manufacturers will be able to use the standard, open (and Linux-based) Android platform for free, to power their future cellphones (the first ones will be out in the second half of next year). And, as you might imagine, the new Google-provided mobile OS will have

Re: Gphone isn't open, linux dev not possible

2007-11-18 Thread Lalo Martins
Also spracht Jose Manuel Ferrer Mosteiro (Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:56:06 +0100): Final comment: well, it is possible Running a C app in the emulator is almost entirely irrelevant. There's no guarantee the emulator even resembles the final platform -- or for that matter, that the final platform

Re: full-duplex audio from Wolson codec

2007-11-18 Thread rukhsana ansari
Hi Michael, Since I haven't received a response from the community mailing lists, can you confirm whether the audio drivers have the necessary support to have full-duplex audio required to test a VOIP application on Neo? As I understand it one can switch between a recording and playback mode

Re: full-duplex audio from Wolson codec

2007-11-18 Thread rukhsana ansari
Hi, My apologies. Please ignore my earlier mail. I found a couple of responses that confirm that its possible to get full-duplex audio. Thanks, Rukhsana rukhsana ansari wrote: Hi Michael, Since I haven't received a response from the community mailing lists, can you confirm whether the