GTA04 Group Buy - Status

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On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:45:16 +0100, Radek Polak wrote:
> On Friday 02 December 2011 13:21:34 lukpank at o2.pl wrote:
>
>> The most important question is whether it can work as a daily phone,
>> which means for me a solid hardware: no buzz and good quality sound
>> during the call.  On gta02 people where complaining on the sound 
>> from
>> my gta02 even after buzfix applied.  I hope gta04 is an improvement 
>> also
>> in this respect.
>
> As far as i can say from early testing, the sound quality is good. I 
> still
> need low latency software for routing the sound between UMTS and
> speakers, but
> otherwise the modem seems to work reliably - i have been receiving 
> SMS and
> calls without any issues.
This issue should be solved with the next board version GTA04A4 which 
is produced right now. This board version connects the modem directly to 
the TPS chip which contains all the sound related stuff. Therefore it 
should work without additional software if you adjust the right alsa 
switches to route the audio between modem and mic/speakers.

> So with good power management this has potential to be usable phone.
This is still to do. The OMAP platform is very capable of saving power 
but everything must be set up within the linux kernel. This is a 
challenging task if you didn't do this before. I'm still trying to 
understand all necessary bits to help out here.

Regards,
   Christoph