[Arm-netbook] GSM/GPRS and 3G EOMA-68 Cards

[Alejandro Mery]

On 11 October 2012 16:08, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Enrico <ebutera at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:57 PM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> i thought i'd raise this as a specific topic, because i just
>>> encountered a company that has asked us for help in selling their
>>> Mediatek-based MTK625x 300mhz ARM9 phones (priced at $13 and  $25).
>>> these are only GSM/GPRS Quad-band but they also have a $65 phone with
>>> an MSM7227a, for which the linux kernel source code already exists:
>>>    https://github.com/omegamoon/huawei-g300-u8815-msm7227a
>>>
>>> my question is therefore would it be of interest to people to have an
>>> EOMA-68 3G CPU Card?
>>
>> Very very much if the cpu has enough processing power/coprocessor to
>> do audio/video encoding (1080p).
>
>  http://micdigi.com/2012/08/the-mtk65756577-dual-core-solution/
>
>  you're in luck!  the MTK6575 (dual core arm cortex 1gz) apparently
> can do 1080p and has HDMI output.  and this little company is
> apparently working on a phone that uses it.

what about kernel and u-boot sources? I'm waiting for an MTK6577
(jiayu g3) phone I pre-ordered for my wife.

http://mtksj.com/

cheers,
Alejandro