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Comment Very interesting feasibility study (Score 1) 1

by wick3t on Thursday October 31, 2013 @12:11PM (#45291305) Attached to: Fundraiser for Neo900 open smartphone

Here's a link to the Neo900 feasibility study: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/neo900/downloads/get/neo900-feasibility.pdf

Can this be included in the in the summary?

Submission + - Fundraiser for Neo900 open smartphone (neo900.org) 1

Submitted by JoSch1337 on Thursday October 31, 2013 @08:15AM

JoSch1337 writes: Golden Delicious Computers (creators of OpenPhoenux / GTA04 openmoko replacement board) is announcing a fundraiser to produce first prototypes and kickstart mass production of the Neo900 open smartphone. Based on the electronics of the GTA04 open smartphone platform, the Neo900 will reuse the Nokia N900 case but contain a motherboard with a faster CPU, more RAM, an LTE modem and other additions when compared to the original Nokia N900 smartphone. In the Openmoko spirit the device will be fully hackable, supporting QtMoko, SHR, Debian, Replicant and any other operating system ported to it like Maemo, Ubuntu or Firefox OS. Visit http://neo900.org/specs for more detailed specifications or http://neo900.org/faq for a general FAQ.
Here is a video presenting the idea: http://youtu.be/EJHMXQ3nSt0
If your donation is above 100 eur, then that amount will be deducted from your purchase of the final version of the Neo900. The final motherboard is expected to be in the range of 500-700 eur depending on the amount of orders and availability of components.

Comment Neo900 (Score 2, Informative) 207

by wick3t on Friday September 13, 2013 @11:26AM (#44841033) Attached to: Time For a Hobbyist Smartphone?

Too bad Nokia quit making fun phones. The last was the N900. I'd love to have a new phone similar to that with modern specs.

It seems that you haven't heard of the Neo900 project which aims to deliver just that.

Comment A sad moment in the history of computing (Score 2) 238

by wick3t on Monday June 10, 2013 @08:38PM (#43968215) Attached to: HP Discontinue OpenVMS

I consider myself to be very fortunate to have had the opportunity to experience such a wonderful operating system. I'm probably very young compared to most VMS system managers, my first experience of VMS was about 7 years ago. My first impressions were that it seemed quite antiquated (mostly due to the lack of a modern shell) but as I began to learn more, it became a breath of fresh air compared to anything I had ever used. I began to discover features, flexibility and power that make other modern operating systems seem primitive. I can only hope that it will now be open sourced as it would a great shame to loose such a unique operating system that offers so much that others don't.

Comment Re:I must be getting old (Score 1) 281

by wick3t on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @08:41PM (#42877287) Attached to: Of the Love of Oldtimers - Dusting Off a Sun Fire V1280 Server

The architecture of the V1280 is sun4u, not sun4v. Logical Domains are not supported on sun4u processors.

Comment Embrace, extend, extinguish? (Score 1) 309

by wick3t on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @01:22PM (#37764270) Attached to: Android Ice Cream Sandwich SDK Released

So Google suck in various OEMs and open source enthusiasts, release two major upgrades and still not release the source code? I'll stick with MeeGo/Mer/Tizen, etc. thank you very much.

Comment Re:WebOS is staying on my TouchPad (Score 1) 96

by wick3t on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @03:28PM (#37753558) Attached to: Installing Android On an HP TouchPad

Actually development is very active and a webOS update for the TouchPad was released just today. This is better support than most Android OEMs who seldomly release any OS updates.

Comment Re:touchscreens are worse (Score 1) 364

by wick3t on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @08:19AM (#36595264) Attached to: One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard

Seriously? Nokia's bad application design has nothing to do with touch screen usability. The beauty of the N900 is that it sets no limits to what you can do and you can easily use the command line to do everything. If you don't like Nokia's alarm application, install cron and use that.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 342

by wick3t on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @09:00AM (#33881480) Attached to: Oracle's Newest Move To Undermine Android

The magic happens in the byte code to byte code recompilation. Basically this means Android uses java's byte code as an object format. So unless there is something magical about providing interoperability and compatibility, which are absolutely, legally allowed, I'm not sure what Oracle is complaining about.

From what I understand, Google's patent infringements do not relate to the use of Java as a language or Java byte code to Dalvik conversion, but mostly relate to the general use and implementation of a virtual machine in general. .NET and its CLR do not use the Java language or require byte code conversion from Java yet Sun/Oracle still collect licence fees Microsoft due to patent infringements. To quote James Gosling from a recent interview:

Microsoft .NET just smears over a huge pile of Sun patents. When they did the .NET design, they basically cut and pasted from the Java spec. The way that they did CLR, you know they swizzled the way the instruction set went but the way this thing really operated, they exercised essentially no creativity when coming up with .NET. They've done some things since then that have been kind of good but as part of the various court cases we ended up with this rather odd patent deal with them that involved them paying us fairly tasty amounts of money. And I'm sure that the lawyers looked at the Microsoft numbers and said, yeah I want that from Google.

Comment Re:Meego? (Score 1) 163

by wick3t on Thursday June 24, 2010 @05:16PM (#32683818) Attached to: Intel Porting Android To x86 For Netbooks and Tablets

I personally prefer the direction Intel was going with Moblin/Meego to Android. I wonder if this means Intel is going to leave Meego development up to Nokia?

I suspect both MeeGo and Android x86 are just part of Intel's plan to drive the Atom market. At the end of the day, they probably don't really care what OS is running on it.

Comment Re:Here's your roundup (Score 1) 568

by wick3t on Thursday June 24, 2010 @01:33PM (#32680432) Attached to: iPhone 4 News Roundup

Life is really too short to be idealistic about freaking phone apps.

I agree, but that's the reason I chose not to buy an iPhone. My N900 which runs Linux allows me to install anything I like, and with Easy Debian installed I have access to thousands of ARM Linux apps. So far, I've been able to take the source and build anything I've needed that's not available in the repositories.

Comment Re:Line endings! (Score 2, Informative) 536

by wick3t on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @01:13PM (#28531131) Attached to: Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows?

Twenty bucks says you're converting from DOS line endings (\r\n) to Unix line endings (\n).

There, fixed that for you.

Comment It's the next logical step in hand-held gaming (Score 1) 80

by wick3t on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @07:59AM (#28526461) Attached to: Sony Pondering Game/Phone Hybrid

Nintendo should do this too or risk losing their status as the leader of hand-held gaming. People already carry mobile phones on them wherever they go and many do not want or would prefer not to carry a second device for gaming. It would make sense to release two versions of the device, one with phone capabilities and one without as there is still a market for children and others who do not want a new phone. My guess is that Sony's offering will be PSP Go compatible.

Comment Re:There's a simple solution (Score 1) 455

by wick3t on Thursday May 14, 2009 @08:06AM (#27949565) Attached to: Square Enix Shuts Down Fan-Made <em>Chrono Trigger</em> Sequel

Where they went wrong was by reusing the Chrono Trigger brand to create what looks like a new Chrono Trigger titled game. If the mod was made so it did not try to be "Chrono Trigger", there would have been very little Square Enix could have done about it as it would be all original content. There isn't a lot of work to do (compared to what they've done already) to get it to this state.

Comment Re:There's a simple solution (Score 1) 455

by wick3t on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @08:05AM (#27935703) Attached to: Square Enix Shuts Down Fan-Made <em>Chrono Trigger</em> Sequel

Exactly, but they don't even need to redo the game-as-a-binary from scratch. They could release the whole thing as a patch for the original Chrono Trigger ROM image which would contain nothing but original content. I'm not a lawyer but they possibly would not even need to redraw the sprites if it is done that way.

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