Some more tangoish gadget icons:

- HTC Herald (P4350)

- Samsung F700

I'm happy that Nokia deemed me eligible for their N810 developer rebate program. I'm even more happy about Mickey's post, because that was exactly my motivation to apply at all.

OpenMoko came a long way since my last post. But still, a current ångström 2008.1 openmoko-devel-image (+zImage) has quite some issues on the magician (and other QVGA devices). First impressions:

• some panel icons (bt, usb) are still too big for qvga, others (gsm, battery) look washed out due to rescaling
• keypad control doesn't work properly in many places, there is no support for shortcut buttons yet (except for the power button and the camera button, which is used as AUX on neo)
  
• openmoko-dialer spews empty notification messages if there is no SIM inserted.
• the media player does not start
• bluetooth control doesn't work
• and probably many more

And I could verify that the pxa27x mmc controller supports SDHC :-)

openmoko-dialer + ångström + magician = ?

This was a good week for the quest to a fully functional Ångström image on the HTC Magician. OpenEmbedded now has X11R7.2, gsmd works out of the box and with some patches it is even possible to run openmoko-dialer on top of that:



I uploaded the test image. The openmoko-dialer patches are not really ready yet. The button to hang up a call is still off-screen...

it's a phone!

Daniel's hint was what I needed to understand that the GSM modem indeed works on my GTA01Bv3. Marcin already reported success. And now I can make calls with openmoko-dialer, too (as long as it doesn't segfault). Time to have another look at gsmd.

plotting battery voltage

As the neo1973 was mostly sitting around for the last few days, I decided it could do something with its time. I started to capture some data for the battery voltage scale:


From the first two discharge curves (taken while idling at 200MHz with full display brightness), it looks like my battery still has to be conditioned a bit.

games!

I didn't get the GSM modem to work and there is no way to access the GPS yet. So obviously I had to install puzzles and FreeCiv:



The former causes quite high CPU load wherever you have to pull things around, probably because the redraw is tied to mouse movement and the touchscreen produces a lot of events per second. The latter works quite nicely, thanks to 128MB RAM.

around the world in two days

Today I received my neo1973!



First impressions:

• The display is awesome.
• The bezel is a bit thick, making it hard to hit the touchscreen near the edges.
• Although the rounded edges seem to waste a lot of space, they make the neo comfortable to hold.
• It is slightly bigger in every dimension than the Magician and doesn't feel as solid due to the plastic/rubber case.
• I like the buzz when turning on the device.
• There is some pressure on the back of the LCD. I can see some discolouration in the middle of the screen when pressing against it with the stylus.
  
• The case design is nice. It's really as easy to open as I came to expect from the wiki. The fact that I broke my guitar pick is only due to my own inaptitude.
  
• Did I mention the awesome display?
  

good morning

I made some more or less tango style device icons for these gadgets:

- HP iPAQ hx4700,

- HTC Magician a.k.a. O2 Xda mini,

- FIC neo1973

- Sony Ericsson J100i