OFT Status Update 2006.6.1

[Kevin Dean]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Clare <claregj at gmail.com> wrote:
> About:
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> Openmoko Framework Team Status Report 2008.6.1
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> Many Thanks to Mickey and the Team for this. It is lovely to look at.
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> It came up with a message about SIM PIN but I dont have one and it
> went away. I tried using the dialer, and it worked well. There was still
> an echo - the person on the other phone gets to hear an echo of their
> own voice.

Ironically, my wife CHEERED because she didn't hear an echo. Only when
she spoke very loudly into her phone did she hear it, and it's
possible (I've got a relatively small apartment) that the Freerunner
was actually feeding her actual voice back. I mentioned in my earlier
bug report on the echo that it appears to differ with different
phones. My work phone doesn't echo at all, but my wife's cell does and
calling other phones in the office does.

I read the explanation on the bug report, that the microphone is
picking up the speaker audio, but if that's the case, why does it
change from phone to another?

Now, could someone on the distro-devel team explain to me how this is
related to the ASU? I mean, the "bread-and-butter" application appears
to be an application launcher but the ASU also has one.

My educated guess would be that the Zhone image is a presentation of
the backend stuff, the improved gsm handling and the dbus interface
and so on. The ASU, on the other hand, is showing more towards the
userspace side, integrating Qtopia, Illume and Splinter and Assassin.
Is the idea to eventually "merge" them, to provide the dbsu interface
to the ASU userspace apps and so on? Or is "zhone" and ASU parallel
development lines? And which is intended to be the end result from an
interface perspective, the bread and butter launcher in place of the
ASU thingy, vice versa, a totally different one... or are they
actually the same, one with a more colorful theme?