GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-01 Thread Dr . H . Nikolaus Schaller
Dear all, now, several days after the announcement of the GTA04 group tour, the first subscriptions have arrived (thanks you to all who have already subscribed!). And we have already seen many improvements by the kernel and distro developers that show how much superior the GTA04 hardware has

RE: GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-01 Thread Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE)
-Original Message- From: community-boun...@lists.openmoko.org [mailto:community-boun...@lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:49 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Cc: List for communicating with real GTA04 owners

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-01 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
While I was formulating another mail, there were two more subscription! Thank you very much! Yes, everyone has his/her own decisions to take. And I know that it is a quite huge amount of money for our passion (having myself spent a lot of money and time for the GTA04 to happen). Here, I want

GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Sokolov
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: it is obvious why the open and free software community needs a device where every individual has control over the software. But isn't the GTM601 GSM/UMTS modem in the GTA04 just as closed as any other? How is then GTA04 an improvement over

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Group Buy - Status - 2 old phones for free

2011-12-01 Thread Alexander Lehner
If someone's in need of the case: I have a Neo 1973 and a Freerunner (with probably some HW-glitches on GPS) which I would give away for free (as they are, including electronic parts and battery) to people who preorder a GTA04 from Nikolaus. I have a third phone and already ordered the

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-01 Thread Radek Polak
On Thursday 01 of December 2011 20:09:02 msoko...@ivan.harhan.org wrote: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: it is obvious why the open and free software community needs a device where every individual has control over the software. But isn't the GTM601 GSM/UMTS modem in

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-01 Thread Dave
Hi, The article on /. won't hurt :) http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1910213/openmokos-freerunner-rises-from-the-ashes On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.comwrote: While I was formulating another mail, there were two more subscription! Thank you

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Sokolov
Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote: What's the point in investing time into device that is no longer manufactured and the number of users is decreasing to zero? If it is so worthless in your eyes, why are you (not Radek personally, but some others in this community) guarding that moko fw