New Open Hardware company

steven mosher moshersteven at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 09:02:12 CEST 2009


opps forgot battery life. Michael shiloh has my unit. When I get some time
I'll just test it.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:57 PM, steven mosher <moshersteven at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:18 PM, GNUtoo <GNUtoo at no-log.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 08:47 -0700, steven mosher wrote:
>> It would be a great device...It has usb-2.0...wow(I hope it works
>> fine...not like on my bug device( http://www.buglabs.net/ ) where most
>> of the USB device I have work...but not my usb tv card)
>> but...unfortunately it has 320x240 screen and only 32M of
>> ram...ouch...I've a 320x240 screen on my bug device and it's so
>> small...I have problem with some applications...and is not very
>> comfortable to use.
>> Are 32M of ram sufficient for a GUI like illume but without the FSO+SHR
>> stack?
>> But in another hand I saw that there are future devices in
>> preparation...a bit like for GTA01 and freerunner
>> Another problem would be the lack of wifi...
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>   We are investigating a microSD wifi card. The driver is GPL. We will let
> you all
>   know the outcome
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>> But wait a second...it has microsd...it would makes a great ogg
>> player...
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>    Yes it would.
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>> maybe it could do tv too(with USB 2.0 tv card)
>> But I wonder how usable it is as a a general purpose computer
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>> By the way will the micro-sd be removable...what would be the costs and
>> the size compared to the openpandora(If I ever buy one I won't use the
>> 3d because it's proprietary,unmaintained(so old kernel) etc...)
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>    Yes the microSD is remove able.
>    the size?  check the product page on qi-hardware.
>    the price?  Depends on peoples reaction.  $99 is not out of reach if we
> hit the right
>    volumes, but for now plan on around  $149.
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>> And what would be the battery life?
>>
>> Denis.
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