Near field communication

[Bruce Deschamps]

Hi Harald,

Well, if I can contribute to the project in any way I would be very happy to
help!
Cheers
Bruce

2007/3/7, Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org>:
>
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:41:43PM +0100, Bruce Deschamps wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My name is Bruce, I recently subscribe to the community list and I have
> been
> > reading a few of the very interesting threads you've been talking about.
> I
> > was wondering if  any of you had thought about near field communication
> > capabilities like using RFID reader and chips to deal with payment,
> > ticketing, infotainment, or entreprise solutions like tracking by using
> the
> > neo1973 and openMoko Framework?
>
> Please note that I as one of the core people behind the software, and
> now also Neo1973 hardware, have spent much time over the last years with
> the development of projects like
>
> http://openmrtd.org/projects/librfid/
> http://openmrtd.org/projects/libmrtd/index.html
> http://www.openpcd.org/
> http://www.openpcd.org/openpicc.0.html
> http://www.openbeacon.org/
>
> So we definitely know about RFID and NFC stuff ;)
>
> > on. I was wondering if there was any possibility to integrate this
> > functionnality into our upcoming Neo and openMoko?
>
> For Neo1973: No way.  We are happy to deliver "a very basic smartphone"
> from the hardware point of it.  As you have noticed, even something as
> simple as that (from the hardware point of view) has caused delays and
> delays.
>
> For our 2008 device plans:  We're keeping an eye on it.  For something
> ISO14443-1/2/3/4 compliant it would be possible, since that is open
> enough.  The other side is the chipset.  I'm currently not aware of any
> NFC chipsets that would even allow the driver and other software to be
> Free Software.  And that is a sort of a blocker issue for us.
>
> --
> - Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org>
> http://openmoko.org/
>
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