OpenMoko according to my information has a GSM radio/modem
only - see below. Japan has several different and independent
radio networks (around 7-8 depending on how you count)
but none of them is GSM - therefore a GSM radio-based phone
like OpenMoko will not connect in Japan.
If you are looking for "smart phones" which work in Japan,
there are Symbian phones and MS-Windows mobile phones.
you can also use JAVA programming.
Or you can pursuade OpenMOKO to move from "legacy"
GSM and add wCDMA or HSDPA radios
Hope this helps
Gerhard
| GSM/GPRS
| The GSM (including GPRS) modem is Texas Instruments Calypso based.
|
| * Connected to: S3C2410 UART1 (full-uart, RxD, TxD, CTS, RTS), /
dev/ttySAC0 in userspace
| * PM Driver: https://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/target/kernel/
patches/gta01-power_control.patch
| * Accessible GSM/GPRS antenna jack (if battery cover is removed)
|
| CALYPSO digital baseband
| Unfortunately we cannot provide many details on the GSM chipset due
to very tight NDAs.
| However, this is not neccessarily required, since it interfaces
using a standard UART
| serial line with the S3C2410. On that interface, GSM 07.05, GSM 07.10
| and other standardized protocols are used.
| TWL3014 analog baseband
|
| Product Homepage: TWL3014
| TRF6151 RF Transceiver
|
| Product Homepage: TRF6151
| Quad-band support
| GPRS Class12/CS4
On 2007/10/07, at 8:20, .~* Greg Conquest *~. wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Do you know if the Neo1973 (1st OpenMoko phone) will work in Japan?
>
> I guess technically there has to both:
> - be a match to the network type (GSM vs. CDMA vs. . . .)
> - and there has to be a carrier here that can be used with
> unauthorized
> phones.
>
> Will both of these work out for the Neo1973? I'd love to have a
> smartphone that is not overly crippled by the carrier-manufacturer
> cartel, and if I can support linux development at the same time,
> then I
> can kill two birds with one stone, er... feed two rabbits with one
> carrot >:-o
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Conquest
>
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