Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

[Dave O'Connor]

Thanks for the response and don't take this the wrong way but it doesn't
really answer my question. :)

Openmoko could take these sweet spec components and do stuff with them.
That would lead to increased sales for these component manufacturers.
It's in their interest to make them, and hopefully therefore the specs,
available to you. 1) Why don't they make the components available to
anyone other than the manufacturers for phones meant for the japanese
market, even those who wouldn't care about open specs?

Regards
Dave



On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 10:28 +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:19:08 -0700 Dave O'Connor <doc at skynet.ie> babbled:
> 
> > Just out of interest, why don't other countries get access to these
> > components sooner? Why do Japanese consumers get them first? Do they pay
> > significantly more than the rest on phones so they're a better market
> > for manufacturers or could openmoko steal a lead here in the rest of the
> > world?
> > 
> > Might it be an idea to appeal to these component manufacturers
> > competitive sides and say "if you give us the specs to write open
> > drivers we can give you sales in the rest of the world"?
> 
> japanese phones are all about tech specs - and that's it. well that and looking
> sexy (nice design/cases). usability is pretty poor. their software and ui's are
> atrocious mostly. but that doesn't matter because they can do the "i'm cooler
> than you. my phone has more pixels!" (irrespective if they can even use more
> than 10% of the features of the phone, nor see the pixels they have so many
> of...) :)
> 
> > Regards
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 16:51 +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> > > 0n Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:46:57PM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: 
> > > 
> > >     >On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Ken Young
> > >     ><rtm at cfa.harvard.edu> babbled:
> > >     >
> > >     >> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > >     >> 
> > >     >> > quick question - would you prefer a qvga lcd (save a bit of cost)
> > >     >> > since we'e going to need to software-drive all graphics - the fewer
> > >     >> > pixels you have to fill, the better for speed. i'm really tossing
> > >     >> > up if the speed of qvga is worth the loss of resolution. i'm just
> > >     >> > not sure.
> > >     >> 
> > >     >> Please, please, please, please, please don't drop to a QVGA LCD on
> > >     >> future OM phones.   The beautiful full VGA screens on the neo and
> > >     >> Freerunner are just about the only piece of hardware they have which
> > >     >> is better than what you find on a typical smart phone.
> > >     >
> > >     >you haven't been to japan lately. a whole host of their phones are
> > >     >834x480... in 3.2" screens! totally nuts!
> > > 
> > > Raster, got a link to any pictures of these magic phones ?
> > > 
> > >  -aW
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