Any word from TI on AT&T SIMs?

El Duque GP2X el.duque.gp2x at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 06:20:14 CET 2008


Is this issue solved already? Can you provide an update?

Thanks!

Duque

On 10/13/07, Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:54:46AM -0700, ian douglas wrote:
> > Harald,
> >
> > Is this something that OpenMoko envisions being able to distribute to end
> > users themselves, or to maintenance locations?
>
> to end users.
>
> > In the meantime, can I just ship my phone back to you guys to update my
> > firmware? ;o)
>
> well, only our engineers can do this, and we don't have any engineers in
> the US.  So the shipping would have to go to Taiwan or Europe, which is
> very expensive (on the magnitude of two times 70USD), so it donesn't
> make a lot of sense economically.  Also, it creates overhead on our
> already very stretched R&D resources.
>
> We're working with Ti to resolve it, we have received very good
> responses now and just need to work out a license agreement for the
> firmware updater.  Once that has been reached, we will make an ipkg of
> the firmware updater and the firmware, and distribute that to our users.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> - Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org>                   http://openmoko.org/
> ============================================================================
> Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone
>
>



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