Tag Archives: planet-openmoko

FoxtrotGPS – we can dance if we want to!

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

The news are out now – tangoGPS has been forked. tangogps is an easy to use, fast and lightweight mapping application for use with or without GPS. (tangoGPS web site) FoxtrotGPS is an offshoot of Marcus Bauer’s excellent tangoGPS application, … Continue reading →

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Fixing Openmoko hardware bug #1024

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Risto H. Kurppa

Stuff has bugs, both hardware and software. One of the hardware bugs in Openmoko phones has been bug number #1024 causing things to happen that prevent the GSM chip to go to ‘deep sleep’ mode to save power. Someone came … Continue reading →

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Two new IRC channels: #tangogps and #smile-slideshow

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Risto H. Kurppa

I started today two new IRC channels on Freenode to discuss the usage and development of two great Free & Open source programs, Tangogps and Smile, and also to allow free & realtime discussion of the user communities. Tangogps is … Continue reading →

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Wikireader – You be the expert

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Risto H. Kurppa

Openmoko Inc, the company behind the Openmoko Freerunner Linux phones released their new product, Wikireader. It’s a small device to read Wikipedia offline. The files are stored on uSD card, also the small Linux kernel is supposedly loaded from the … Continue reading →

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Random Openmoko thoughts

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Risto H. Kurppa

Some ideas have been bothering be for a while, decided to write them down here, maybe they’re interesting to someone else too. Nokia 900 A great device hardware-wise. Nice to see it running Linux but phone stack still closed. See … Continue reading →

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