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Heh... I know the feeling. It's what I had when I'd made the initial remark. QUOTE Please, don't use ARM5/7 when you mean ARMv5 and ARMv7. Don't add confusion to the already confusing ARM naming :D Fair enough. It's laziness on my part. I'll try to refrain in the future. :D

In theory, yes. The big sticking point would be more along the lines of OBTAINING something like WinCE with the proper BSP for the Pandora with legit licenses for the same.

Heh... We already had this discussion. (Note to self: Must remember to not post without caffeine IV... :D) Besides, in the big picture sense of things, most of the ARM5 implementations are slower than the ARM7 ones- which is why I made the specific remark I made... :D

I think they're buying themselves time while they position themselves in the same sort of role as Freescale and TI are in. From reading their literature again (which is why I commented the way I did...) they're in the same boat right at the moment as TI, Qualcomm, and a few other smaller...

The GPS stuff is about in the same class as the Nokia answers- GPS itself isn't going to be hard to add in as an after-release item if it's not in the Angstrom builds at rollout. :D

No, there's also Pimlico and a few other choices (anything on the Maemo platform is a likely candidate to move over and might just drop on with no effort on our part...). [edit] It's just that GPE is out of box completely on the Angstrom build (Do an bitbake gpe-image and out pops the whole...

Magic! Actually, Sphinxter's not kidding. You can extrapolate the capability of the device to run based off of the watt-hours of the battery, the load at full tilt (and then verify that you're right, which they've done...), and then extrapolate the life based off of the load when you bring it...

Here's a hint: Most of the people CAPABLE of doing that work for the Pandora reside in one of those selfsame jurisdictions and moreover can't ask or pay someone outside of the same to do the work for them. Doing so opens yourself up to litigation. If you live in one of those jurisdictions...

BGA pinout is not assured to be identical from the one subset of the series to the next. This isn't the same thing as a PC where you can glibly change out CPUs. If Nokia uses it, they'll be providing it for a while yet to come. This stuff DOESN'T work out the same way you'd think. And this...

No kidding... Well, we're catering to that here... ;) QUOTE I stumbled across this on slashdot (I'm sure most of you read it already but figured I'd post here) CODE http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp It's a $100 linux ARMv5 @ 1.2 ghz with...

Heh... Most of the codecs, with the exception of the VP3/Theora codec and the Dirac codec and a few others like the h.261/h.263 codec have a per unit royalty (in addition to possibly a dev library or dsp code library license fee...) that MUST be paid for a commercial or commercial-like venture...

I'll second that line of thought. Anything past this would be the cherry on the top. :D

I'm thinking it more that they didn't see the N800 as a games platform more than anything else- without a perceived user base like the iPhone has (even though the N800/N810 has a sizable base that'd be a good market to go into...) anyone thinking games isn't going to think about it because of...

Heh... All you gain is a bit of clock speed and a lowering of power consumption for all intents and purposes... I'd rather we utilized the next batch of tech that follows that one on TI's roadmap. By the time we're doing a successor unit, if we're still at this particular form of insanity, TI...

You could... But wouldn't it be nicer if you could use the full power of the Cortex-A8 and OpenGL? I would think people would like that sort of thing. Cleaner look, etc. And it's not only possible, it's something that's very likely to happen so long as you've got the assets. Same goes for...

Angstrom has at least two different PIM suites in GPE and Opie. Opie requires Qt Mobile and is a FOSS reimplementation of TrollTech's Qtopia environment. GPE works with Maemo and GNOME. GPE syncs with pretty much any modern GNOME or KDE Linux system. Via Funambol, you should be able to sync...

Kingpin would depend on whether Xatrix (renamed Grey Matter, who is now defunct...) gave Interplay source code access and they were willing to do a respin or if someone from the Xatrix era of that studio has the source code lurking about and is willing (and able...) to give rights access to the...