Due itenacionalization on the device in on the way and is posible to run other apps , another way to improve the software is to be able to include image on it , taking in considreation the difficulty to do it on the limitations of the device 1bit of color (Black/White) and 240x208 pixels resolution, below I have selected a few random image from the Wikipedia using the Random Article special page and I have tried to tranform them to the format understandable to the device (pbm format) in the hypothetical situation it has an already included image viewer than allows to do vertical scroll , so all images has a with of 240 pixels. I think the results are quite promising due the process is the same for all image with same parameters and results are quite good to be the first attempt.
Thanks to Thomas HOCEDEZ and his blogto discover some "hidden" menus, well if anything can be hidden when you can access to the source code :P , To access this menu/programs you must push one the keys along with the power button when you power on the device
The procces is not full ready yet, it fails due issues on articles with different codding(utf8/Latin1) , and I can just proccess the 40% of the Spanish Wikipedia , but here is a sample of the Spanish Wikipediar Wikipedia running on WikiReader
It's a pleasure to present the second version of our Leather Case for OpenMoko.
After receiving some comments and request about improving the belt attachments , we decided to add two belt loops to it. Now you can use the loops or just the clip to attach the case to your belt.
To celebrate it we down the price of Openmoko Neo FreeRunner A6+ to 199EUR VAT included, offer valid until end of stock. Thanks to all to make us enjoy this first year of life
Since I have my first ultraportable linux device(hp jornada 680 with Jlime) I always dreamed to not have to carry my laptop to do conferences and workshops, and do them with what I carry on pocket directly but I had no found any solution than fits, until now :) Here is the steps to make the Sharp Netwalker use an external monitor or a projector:
As they have advised the new Openmoko Inc. device has nothing in common with his previous product the Neo FreeRunner, its an amazing simple idea, a portable Wikipedia reader, the WikiReader.
Some work is to be done both on the server and in the code before we can put it online but we have some screenshoots to show the work in progress, no mockups, the site is running on local on my virtualized debian and the example apps are upladed using the site adminstration :), click on the images to see them full size.
We include in our catalog the heir of the Sharp Zaurus, Sharp Netwalker PC-Z1 an ultra light netbook with Ubuntu as installed OS , witha a 5'' LED touchscreen, 1024 x 600 pixels resolution, 512 MB RAM, i.MX515 Freescale(ARM8) 800 MHz processor, 4 GB Flash disk, WiFi 802.11 g/b, USB 2.0 and miniUSB ports and up to 10 hours of autonomy
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