From: Alexandre P. N. <al...@om...> - 2007-04-10 13:39:18
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Craig Hughes escreveu: > [cut] > Yes, there's a connector for bringing the Sharp overlay touchscreen > panel flex connector onto the UCB1400's touchscreen A/D convertor lines. > > So I must say it's going to be a nice toy :-) > [cut] > This is designed to be a phone for people who might want to hack the > hardware. In that context, we don't want to be having people burn > down their house when they accidentally overload the battery, or > decide to it'd be neat to speed up charging by just cranking up the > charge voltage, etc. We were talking to a battery manufacturer about > this issue when he suggested Li-xyz batteries instead of NiMH, and he > said something to the effect of "Oh, I see -- I didn't know people > might be doing that. In that case, I would refuse to sell you li-xyz > batteries anyway". If folks out there understand the issues around > li-xyz explosiveness enough to replace the nimh charge circuit with > their own lithium charge circuit, then it will be very easy for them > to do so, given that we publish all our schematics, layouts, etc :) > > Isn't that a goddamn truth? Good point. >> My 2 cents. >> > > My own 2 cents: provide "2 cent" advice in euros, not dollars -- they > seem to hold value better :) > It seems that my last comment was valued in Yen cents ;) Now let me ask another question: someone asked about audio interfacing to the phone module. I think that's a must, or at least, a big plus. What say you? - Alexandre |