from what I've seen/heard, most of the GPIO lines are already taken up by alt-functions, but we could have the (spi/nssp)/i2c busses brought out to that location<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Shawn Rutledge</b> <<a href="mailto:shawn.t.rutledge@gmail.com">shawn.t.rutledge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
DAB is only in Europe right?<br><br>How about if the phone had an expansion connector, next to some cavity<br>that isn't already filled with something (I hear there are some of<br>those, internally), and you could add modules as you please. The
<br>connector would need to have a few GPIO connections to the main<br>processor and/or some serial bus that happens to be available, plus an<br>audio connection to the mixer. Third parties could make boards for<br>FM, DAB and the like. Other options would be more radios like Zigbee
<br>or NFC, or other kinds of sensors (a better accelerometer, compass,<br>temperature/humidity, whatever).<br><br>On 8/23/07, Tilman Baumann <<a href="mailto:tilman@baumann.name">tilman@baumann.name</a>> wrote:<br>
> Giles Jones wrote:<br>> > Ian Stirling <<a href="mailto:OpenMoko@mauve.plus.com">OpenMoko@mauve.plus.com</a>> wrote :<br>> ><br>> >> It's valuable if it's very cheap or free.<br>> >
<br>> > But it's another chip on the already large board.<br>><br>> Agree<br>> > DAB radios are more useful given the number of extra channels.<br>> Agree.<br>> Definitely more geekish. :)<br>>
<br>><br>> > There's no end of features you could implement, mobile TV would be another feature now that the EU have standardised on a format.<br>> A DAB receiver could also supply you with DMB data. Which would be for
<br>> example video compressed for mobile use...<br>> DMB is DAB with oder codecs used in the data streams.<br>><br>><br>> But i would not say radio or mobile video would be in any a important<br>> feature.
<br>> I just liked to add this information without valueing the idea of a<br>> radio in such device. :)<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OpenMoko community mailing list<br>>
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