[gta02-core] Openmoko Beagle Hybrid

Sylvain Paré sylvain.pare at gmail.com
Tue May 11 18:47:21 CEST 2010


kudos!

2010/5/11 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at computer.org>

>
> Am 11.05.2010 um 17:50 schrieb Michael Trimarchi:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > RANJAN wrote:
> >> A  really good idea.Looking forward to its release.
> >>
> >> R.Sriranjan
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
> >> <hns at computer.org>wrote:
> >>
> >>
> > I don't know why it's usefull, sorry for the question. If you can
> > give me a board that replace
> > the gta02 board and I can reuse battery and display and keyboard,
> > that's can be great but other type
> > of solution change openmoko on a developement board
>
> You are completely right in your expectation that we share. We would
> be happier if we could offer a motherboard replacement for the
> Freerunner. With OMAP and UMTS. But as Werner has already found out in
> the GTA02-core project this is still very far from becoming reality.
> The complexity is balancing circuit design with availability and cost
> of chips, and pcb layout with production processes.
>
> Nevertheless, the great open source mobile phone software developed by
> this community (SHR, QtMoko, FSO etc.) needs to have modern open and
> documented hardware to keep pace with pretededly-open platforms like
> iPhone, WebOS, etc. Therefore, this Openmoko Beagle Hybrid board gives
> us a tool to develop mobile applications with state of the art
> performance (except form factor).
>
> We, a small team of hardware developers, will continue to work on
> integrating everything better - but this is a long way to go. I am
> sure we will finally succeed because we have decided to do so, but I
> don't know when.
>
> So it is better to have something suboptimal than nothing...
>
> Nikolaus
>
> >
> > Michael
> >>> There is now a new Wiki page for the project:
> >>>
> >>>       http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Beagle_Hybrid
> >>>
> >>> I have received some questions why we did not put all this into a
> >>> nice
> >>> design. The main reason is that we can't redesign the Beagleboard
> >>> (it
> >>> has fixed dimensions) and we can't afford to build plastic injection
> >>> moulds (if someone has an idea how to reduce cost this is very
> >>> welcome). So the easiest solution was to combine what we have: a
> >>> given
> >>> Beagleboard and the Freerunner case.
> >>>
> >>> Other questions were what one could do with this. Here some ideas
> >>> (not
> >>> assuming it is complete - you may have more and it is a platform for
> >>> your creativity):
> >>>
> >>>       • experimenting with touchscreen and new user interfaces on
> >>> Beagleboard
> >>>       • learn how the OMAP3530 CPU works
> >>>       • make it a truly open mobile application development
> >>> platform by
> >>> adding a battery pack and a UMTS usb stick
> >>>       • investigate how an Openmoko with UMTS and OMAP3530 feels
> >>> (not from
> >>> haptics but screen operation and UMTS speed)
> >>>       • porting SHR, QtMoko, Android, etc. to ARM-Cortex A8
> >>>
> >>> And here some feature list:
> >>>
> >>>       • PCB that fits into Freerunner case (top cover and middle
> >>> part
> >>> after
> >>> cutting a hole)
> >>>       • works also without such a case (except speakers and earset)
> >>>       • Toppoly LCM interface (same display as used in the
> >>> Freerunner -
> >>> otherwise it would not fit into the case)
> >>>       • TSC2007 touch screen controller
> >>>       • Microphone
> >>>       • Earset and Speaker connector (for those sitting in the
> >>> Freerunner
> >>> case)
> >>>       • 2 buttons (AUX and Power)
> >>>       • 2 dual color LEDs (in the AUX and Power buttons)
> >>>       • vibracall driver
> >>>       • headset jack to connect microphone, earset and speaker
> >>>
> >>> For the software, we have to rearrange the code on our server a
> >>> little
> >>> and then it will be made public.
> >>>
> >>> Finally, here you can do preorders:
> >>>
> >>>       http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=Openmoko%20Beagle
> >>>
> >>> Nikolaus
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> >>>
> >>>
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