Category Archives: Embedded

GTA04 Installation Guide for SHR

GTA04 Installation Guide for SHR This is a step-by-step guide, which should get you from zero to a working SHR on your GTA04 in just a few minutes. Getting the files shr-core image: shr-image-om-gta04.tar.gz shr-image-om-gta04.tar.gz (latest staging image, for testers … Continue reading

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Updated: Openmoko Community Survey 2011

Update 9.1.2012: results are updated. As the year 2011 nears it’s end, we – the Openmoko Community – did a poll [0] about which is the most popular hardware and which is the most popular software in our community. The … Continue reading

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HP|Palm Pre – msmcomm

Table of Contents Msmcomm FSO Status Links As you may already know[1], I got a free HP|Palm Pre2 developer device some time ago. The first project I started with this really nice piece of hardware is Bootr[2] – a multiboot … Continue reading

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Goldelico/Openmoko GTA04 at last production stage

Table of Contents Goldelico GTA04 Testing Future Support Links The replacement SoC for the Openmoko Neo Freerunner and Neo 1973 – called Goldelico GTA04 alias “Phoenux” – just arrived at it’s final production stage after another slight delay. Goldelico GTA04 … Continue reading

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Update: Openmoko GTA04 »Phoenux« is getting reality

Table of Contents The Story Technical Specifications Prototypes & Early-Adopter Boards Future How you can help Thanks Links The GTA04 is rising like a phoenix from the ashes… The Story All started off with the idea of a fully open … Continue reading

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HP/Palm Pre2 Developer Device

Recently my free HP/Palm Pre 2 developer device arrived from the US here in Germany. In March I wrote an email to HP/Palm to apply for the “developer program”, in which they offered free Pre2 devices to qualified developers. As … Continue reading

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Free platforms Go On, despite former giant’s NoGo

This is an official PR announcement from the FOSS community. Different translations are available here: wiki.freesmartphone.org /CZ /DE /ES /PL Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 – Despite the recent departure of a former mobile handset manufacturer giant, several developing teams and … Continue reading

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Android is running on the iPhone!

Check out this video, where the iPhone is dualbooting iPhoneOS and Android! The guys from the Linux on the iPhone project did a great job. Now let’s start porting real Linux, FSO and SHR over to it =). Here is … Continue reading

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1000x 本 NanoNote

Yesterday (24.02.2010) Qi-Hardware1 proudly announced their first product of copylefted hardware – Ben NanoNote – which is now released to the public. The first batch of 1000 NanoNotes is produced. They are shipping and in stock in Hong Kong, Europe … Continue reading

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Android Impressions

Just flashed Android to my Freerunner… I didn’t think it’s that easy! It’s just like flashing a normal Om2008.12 or SHR image. You don’t have to use a special bootloader (if you use koolus 1,9MB kernel). But remember to prepare … Continue reading

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