Mobile Madness

Tue Mar 26 2013 07:41:04 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

So it seems Samsung has joined the "Wireless Power Consortium" and will build future handsets that are chargeable using the "Qi" inductive power standard.

wikipedophilia says that Qi is pronounced "chee"

This is obviously wrong. The correct pronounciation should be "kwee"

yea, realy can't wait to see more wireless charged gadgets, since the plugs tend to be one of the achilles heels in modern gadgets.

I realy like to buy my next garmin gps edge with that, plus bluetooth io connecting - only use the USB plug for firmware upgrades.

a device for a task. a modern garmin gps edge 8xx lasts 17hours, and has auto power off if you don't move for 10 minutes.

The floating point operations to do the triangulations are whats draining the bateries most; my older 705 lasts 7 hours.

If you put it into a metal cookie box (so it can't do GPS calculations...) it will last several days.

Unless you find more energy saving ways for the fp operations, GPS will always be the primary energy drain on your device, be it a dedicated unit or your mobile.

Achilles Heel was not meant in the direction of day to day operations, but rather the whole lifespan which the device can reach until it looses functionality terminaly.

currently it seems my flash in the garmin wears of :-( so it will not die from dead USB data/charging interface...

think about it. its a data signal in the lower baud areas.Position of the satelite, current time of the clock in the satelite.

its just an inbound radio receiver - no sending. Just an antenna, an amp, and thats it. Whats following then is floating point calculations over and over.

For shure if you don't have a GPS-Signal, the GSM Signal could be weak also. In that case the mobile pumps up the volume of the sending radio - which then in term eats your batery.

Motorola (Google-rola?) is finally getting ready to release its next major line of Android phones.

http://m.guardiannews.com/technology/2013/may/30/google-moto-x-motorola-smartphone

"Moto X" will supposedly cost far less than Apple or Samsung, despite being manufactured in the United States.  This line is the culmination of two years of work following Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility in 2011.  Its most interesting new feature is its ability to react contextually based on what it thinks you're doing (phone is in your pocket vs. phone is on the car dashboard etc)

I'd very much like to make my next phone a Moto, based solely on the premise that it's the only manufacturer that is guaranteed to never pay the Microsoft tax for their patent-protection racket.

I think I will preorder a Jolla phone for 100€ at the end of the month, I have yet to use an android gadget that isn't totally ugly and counterintuitiv to use. They make me totally mad within minutes. What I saw of Sailfish until now pleases my eye and makes sense from a usability point of view. I also hope they will have a QWERTZ keyboard as Other Half.

Anybody see a stock linux package for making

 voice calls through a GSM modem ?

(for transforming a linux tablet with gsm modem into a telephone!)

I see quite a few  efforts (after trying Wammu-Gammu )

 but nothing we can just compile configure  just yet.

The android stuff seems out of reach

 and the ubuntu touch is still vaporware,

 and everything I have seen is just not right yet.

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TheOneLaw

shouldn't there be some in the nokia/intel linux thing? meego / mameo?

Open-moko had a kernel for that, one for sending and one for receiving....

I have 3 n900's Maemo and the telefony is all closed source. (Nokia was a good fit for M$...)

Meego was such a fustercluck I never even looked, it was painful to visit.

Maybe I will revisit that cesspool now that you remind me.

That said, I thought the telefony there was supposed to be all locked

 down as well, as planned from the gitgo but will check up on it. thanks.

Wed Jun 19 2013 01:26:54 EDT from dothebart Subject: Re: linux telefony

shouldn't there be some in the nokia/intel linux thing? meego / mameo?

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TheOneLaw

That seems to be the general deal across the board,

 it appears that every effort to make telefony in linux starts

 with borking a perfectly good linux kernel

 to fit whatever their design tangent is.

I know the linux kernel has some latent issues,

 but surely there must be a better way.

Wed Jun 19 2013 10:18:21 EDT from the_mgt

Open-moko had a kernel for that, one for sending and one for receiving....

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TheOneLaw

nowadays mobiles are computers attached to modems.

the dialer app is talking at to that modem. So it can't be that hard afterall