Re: OM Camera - a new angle

2007-09-23 Thread Bryan Larsen
Then comes the part which really pisses me off: Panasonic has crippled the camera so that you can't use zoom or focus functions while recording video. Now, I know this is not a camcorder. I don't expect it to record good quality video - just something casual once in a while. However, maybe I'm g

Re: OpenMoko != Neo1973 (Was: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics))

2007-06-13 Thread Bryan Larsen
Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Dnia środa, 13 czerwca 2007, Werner Almesberger napisał: Shawn Rutledge wrote: What is your favorite hardware and software for doing this? We use our own debug board. You need a special flexible cable to connect to JTAG (*), and our board has the corresponding conne

Re: built-in scripting languages.

2007-04-19 Thread Bryan Larsen
Well, that's "official" enough for me. I'll develop new apps in PyGTK for now. If I need to, I'll port to C later. The announcement today of the Gnome Mobil & Embedded Initiative (http://www.gnome.org/mobile/) also shows Python in its block diagram, right below a picture of a neo1973. Pytho

call for testers: MokoList, a pilot-db clone.

2007-04-09 Thread Bryan Larsen
One of the most useful apps on my Palm Pilot is [http://pilot-db.sourceforge.net/ Pilot-DB]. I figured it would be a good "first app" to get my feet wet programming for OpenMoko. I've got a first pass at it, and am looking for alpha testers: if you have used [http://pilot-db.sourceforge.net/

Re: built-in scripting languages.

2007-04-03 Thread Bryan Larsen
Steven ** wrote: I'm not sure why you need an external MicroSD card, but all Neo's come with a 512 MB MicroSD card. Sean mentioned that in the FOSDEM presentation. Also, see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_much.3F Sure, the developer's kit comes with a microSD card. I expect all

built-in scripting languages.

2007-04-03 Thread Bryan Larsen
There was a discussion on the mailing list in January about choosing a built-in scripting language. Many good arguments were expressed, but disappointingly, it appears to have not gone anywhere. Many different scripting languages will be optionally available in the repository. However, developer

debug board

2007-03-08 Thread Bryan Larsen
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Connecting_Neo1973_with_Debug_Board_v2 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debug_Board I really like the design. I was expecting a MAX232 and connector breakouts. For not much more work you have something much more functional. One warning though: Those connecto

Re: built-in scripting languages

2007-01-22 Thread Bryan Larsen
There are already (I assume) at least two very powerful scripting languages on the OpenMoko. The first is sh in whatever variant they decide to include. I've used sh to write CGI scripts on a couple of deeply embedded web servers; you'd be surprised how much can be done with just boa+busybox.

Re: IMHO more a viewer problem and not a display problem one ; ) -> better pdf and webbrower Re: Idea for one of the next Neos: Projecting the display via LEDs

2007-01-22 Thread Bryan Larsen
Robert Michel wrote: > Salve Uwe! > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Uwe Koch wrote: >> it's still always the same problem: >> Mobile phones' displays are to small (size or resolution) to view documents, >> ebooks, whatever - but they are small to carry with. >> >> On the other hand PDAs are to large to

Re: Gaming oportunities (OT:nGage)

2007-01-18 Thread Bryan Larsen
I wouldn't write off nGage just yet. Nokia can still make it a successful platform. If pretty much every new phone that Nokia introduces from now on is an nGage phone, then it won't take long for the number of nGage's to approach the number of Gameboy's. Sure, most of them may never touch a gam