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OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture (Linux.com)
Linux.com looks at Qi Hardware, a new venture run by former OpenMoko VP Stephen Mosher. "Qi Hardwares first product will be the NanoNote, a Linux-run mini computer the size of a cellphone with a screen, processor, keyboard, USB port and headphones but no radio frequency, Mosher said. To be launched this fall, the NanoNotes potential uses could include a nano-sized laptop, video or music player, photos or specialized portable personal or business uses."
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OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture (Linux.com) Posted Jul 21, 2009 14:50 UTC (Tue) by dalmas (guest, #59699) [Link]
Uou, a dingoo a320 or onda VX747 clone ...
OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture (Linux.com) Posted Jul 21, 2009 16:59 UTC (Tue) by gbutler69 (guest, #54063) [Link]
Cool. With USB I could plug in my Cellular Broadband Modem (USB Dongle from Verizon). Nice!
OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture (Linux.com) Posted Jul 21, 2009 18:01 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Well as long as the schematics are open and whatnot it wouldn't be terribly difficult to hack in a GSM module. They ara kinda expensive, but now are avialable in a little packages you can add to devices.
Would be fun to play with if your into that sort of thing.
OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture (Linux.com) Posted Jul 21, 2009 19:06 UTC (Tue) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
Or perhaps you could emulate a bluetooth headset with it (with the help of a bluetooth dongle), and use a normal phone wirelessly as the GSM module. I do not know how hard that would be, however, since I never heard about a generic bluetooth dongle pretending to be a headset, only the inverse (using a headset).
OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture (Linux.com) Posted Jul 23, 2009 13:45 UTC (Thu) by wolfgang.spraul (guest, #59765) [Link]
It's USB 2.0 device only, no host mode. Host mode is one of those things that comes to mind first
when thinking about MORE hardware features. But we don't want to go down that route without knowing exactly what we are doing. It's a long story and has to do with the Openmoko background of 100% of the people that started Qi Hardware :-)
We want to make great quality hardware. 'Great quality' is defined by the software (of course
We see our job as squeezing out as much as possible from the existing hardware, rather than
Just today someone said if we leave space for an FPGA on the board they will work on an AES
No worries, USB host is also high on the list, together with a gazillion other things. We focus on
Sign up on the developer list at lists.qi-hardware.com, and join the fun!
OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture (Linux.com) Posted Jul 23, 2009 17:51 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
Room for an EV-DO modem module? :-)
OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture (Linux.com) Posted Jul 22, 2009 2:47 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
I want to see someone embed it with an EV-DO module and a SIP/PoC client.
I don't expect I need to explain why...
OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture (Linux.com) Posted Jul 22, 2009 7:45 UTC (Wed) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]
NanoNote wuthout a built-in radio would not be as interesting. As Bluetooth of WiFi radios connected by USB draw quite a lot of current and reduce battery life significantly.
Also, would it ever have a microphone input ? With only headphones, you could only consume audio content, not more.
OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture (Linux.com) Posted Jul 23, 2009 13:37 UTC (Thu) by wolfgang.spraul (guest, #59765) [Link]
It has a microphone.
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