Bluetooth

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[WizardStan]

Define "illegitimate"?
And how can you plan to have random bugs?

 

[cobaltage]

He seems to be saying that he has been involved in projects in which people were "hacking" a BT connection and it didn't work very well.

 

[mali]

It's a TI chip.

 

[Chip]

Well my impression of bluetooth hasnt been good. I want it to work but is the chip thats in the pandora a good brand?
It is the same wifi/BT chip in the G1 (google-phone). Going with this chip really helped us out, because we were able to use their open driver instead of a closed one.

 

[spinghed]

Well my impression of bluetooth hasnt been good. I want it to work but is the chip thats in the pandora a good brand?
It is the same wifi/BT chip in the G1 (google-phone). Going with this chip really helped us out, because we were able to use their open driver instead of a closed one.

I don't suppose you can tell us what the chip is called/part no. I've been trying to search for it on the forums but there seems to be a few bugs

thanks

Rick

 

[mali]

I think it's this one:

WIFI Module WG7210
Powered by TI WL1251 (802.11b/g) and BRF6300 BT

 

[WizardStan]

It is the same wifi/BT chip in the G1 (google-phone). Going with this chip really helped us out, because we were able to use their open driver instead of a closed one.

For truth? So all the fussing about closed source drivers was for naught?
Just the SGX driver remains closed then, correct? Is someone still working on reverse engineering it to produce an open source variant that you're aware of? Or has that project terminated itself?

 

[Chip]

For truth? So all the fussing about closed source drivers was for naught?
Just the SGX driver remains closed then, correct?
Pretty much. We didn`t choose the part because it had open drivers (it didn`t back when we chose it), it just worked out that way. The chip itself still contains firmware that is not open, but that`s not something anybody would need to mess with anyway. Besides that in-chip firmware, the SGX driver is the only closed source driver in the device.

 

[Lorkile]

Chip, I'm loving the Pandora more and more and again am getting impatient for mine to arrive. Thanks for the great news.

 

[jbr]

The chip sounds good, Chip!
Ha, that was cool.

Also, can someone please tell me what is up with quotation marks on this board? I`ve been looking and I can`t find any topics about it...

 

[adamorjames]

The chip sounds good, Chip!
Ha, that was cool.

Also, can someone please tell me what is up with quotation marks on this board? I`ve been looking and I can`t find any topics about it...

The whole forum went down a little while back and now it is back up but with problems (links, images with links, quotation marks, quick edit, etc)

 

[Alpha2]

Also, can someone please tell me what is up with quotation marks on this board? I`ve been looking and I can`t find any topics about it...

Seriously?
okay, after the forum crash a couple of days ago, it was revived but apparently this is one of the bugs that poped up and it causes the single ' to be doubled everytime it shows. so a ' becomes ' and so one and so forth. weird.

 

[spinghed]

I think it's this one:

WIFI Module WG7210
Powered by TI WL1251 (802.11b/g) and BRF6300 BT

- thanks

Rick

 

[PoisonedV]

awesome thats the kind of answer that I was looking for. This bluetooth/wifi chip must be legit. One because its used in a well known phone and two because it's bluetooth and wifi.

Yeah, I was scared they bought if off of taiwanese crypto hackers :rolleyes: