From: Craig H. <cr...@gu...> - 2007-04-10 20:58:06
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On Apr 10, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Alexandre Pereira Nunes wrote: > Anyway, when I first asked, I was unsure of the reasons you came with > this product. Since it's now clear to me that it's an experimental > project, you have my vote (not that it has any value) to stay in the > safe side. To be clear, I think there are 2 uses: 1. Battery powered "phone" device for people to play with 2. Mobile data platform (using GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA rather than voice) the latter I suspect will not be "experimental" but will rather be the kind of thing people will build into cars, etc. In these, power is normally already there somewhere so it doesn't need its own local battery. The former is the one we're concerned about wrt batteries and charging. > Good luck, it's a very interesting project and I'm sure folks will > have > fun with it. I think for the 2nd class of applications, people will have fun, but also be able to build some very cool applications which are harder when just building around something like a Siemens GSM module (where you then need to integrate to a host CPU for most apps). Having the whole thing with linux and dev tools and such so that a network- enabled GPS-savvy device running linux with completely open APIs on everything seems to me a very powerful platform. C |