Openmoko Presentation
- 1. 10.09.07 Free your cell phone (and use ATD to dial) Pavel Machek, SUSE Labs
- 2. Phones are everywhere everyone has their cellphone and carries it whereever they go cellphones are not just phones any more they browse web can read mail play mp3s and videos play radio they show maps, and you can use them for navigation
- 3. Phones are sensitive They contain your contacts ...your passwords ...your emails ...can eavesdrop on you ...can steal your money and transfer them to attacker Backups are important because they break down non-smart phones do not have adequate ways to backup more than contacts
- 4. Phones are working against their owner Cellphone operators have „interesting“ requirements before they'll sell a cellphone Branded phones are actively evil here right button takes you right into provider's portal, and you pay for it without confirmation without chance to change that branding is non-removable, so you are stuck with looking at red wallpaper you can't use it with other operator MMS / push to talk are designed to be expensive Voice-over-IP is a big no-no for a phone
- 5. Phones are working against their owner You can only transfer pictures out of a phone using MMS You can only download applications using GPRS You can't transfer pictures/apps/songs between phones Have to confirm actions even of your own apps
- 6. Phones are limited (but maybe that's a good thing?) Java applications work everywhere but they can't do interresting stuff usually can't access microphone, camera can't go background can't interact with one another Symbian / Windows Mobile are slightly better here
- 7. Phones are powerful 200-600MHz ARM CPUs are not uncommon 8-128MB RAM 8-128MB flash GPRS connection ~5KB/sec, EDGE ~25KB/sec, UMTS ~40KB/sec, HSDPA ~100KB/sec
- 8. ...powerful enough for Linux Siemens SX1-- low end symbian cellphone from 2003 116g, now ~$120 ARM cpu @120MHz 16MB RAM 24..32MB flash depending on model MMC slot 176x220 color display USB client, bluetooth, GPRS misdesigned keyboard, misdesigned radio parts
- 9. Siemens SX1 16MB RAM is limiting factor but it is good enough for basic commandline system and good enough for (non-free) qtopia bootloader works kernel works, with basic subsystems bluetooth should be fixable tui.sf.net provides basic calls and sms reading power management is not there: <4 hours standby only vibrates on incoming calls, by hardware GPRS is broken
- 10. Motorola line Motorola is using Linux heavily Qtopia based A780, A1200 DRM tricks so that users can't modify the software ...but people are breaking them :-) ...and then they are surprised people dislike working with them
- 11. Greenphone Trolltech's qtopia based phone 0-9*# keyboard Expensive Evil EULA Important parts are non-free but at least it is not locked down by DRM
- 12. Windows Mobile phones they are all pretty much the same ARM cpu, touchscreen handhelds.org has support for many of those
- 13. Neo 1973 ARM s3c2410 @ 266MHz, 128MB RAM, 64MB flash 2.8“ VGA screen 1.2 Ah battery, microSD slot, bluetooth
- 14. Neo 1973 tiny machine with VGA screen, very high DPI stylus, but no stylus holder hardware bug? but people dislike stylus, anyway. just two keys GPS ...and pretty good one ...but closed-source userland binary driver is needed ...but that's the only closesource component
- 15. OpenMoko on Neo basic functionality (display, touchscreen, audio, GSM) works MicroSD support is flakey X/gtk+ works but it is not clear if gtk+ is suitable for finger-controlled applications ipkg packaging system works, allows installing things like python qemu based cross-development environment charger is funny only draws 100mA until it has permission from host does not work too well
- 16. OpenMoko pretty much normal system busybox for size, but full system is possible PDA components ipkg system battery meter on-screen keyboard Phone components gsmd
- 17. UI Stylus is not a mouse Finger is not a stylus bigger buttons are needed feedback outside area that is pressed is needed
- 18. GPRS There's only one physical channel between phone and CPU But we want to have GPRS connected still read the signal strength/battery remaining gsm 07.10 multiplexing is needed ugly as night siemens SX1 critically depends on that, because they were stupid enough to connect sound card to modem needs to be in kernel
- 19. GSM functionality GUI code is needed Is there good standard for contacts? vcard? ...for calendar? vcalendar? Should be useful for desktops, too.
- 20. Power management On desktop, hibernation is nice On laptop, suspend or hibernation is very useful to have On PDA, suspend is mandatory On cellphone, suspend is mandatory, but you have to pretend you are not suspended what is right interface for that? should select() wake the system when timeout is done?
- 21. Questions? ?