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

[Alejandro Mery]

On 11 October 2012 16:23, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>  still looking.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/alcatel/files/ was
> where i found source for MTK6573 and MTK6250 - they've just uploaded
> firmware for the OT995, which uses a snapdragon 8255 (XGA).
>
>  source for the MTK6575-7 is proving hard to track down.

and the people who contacted you can't get it?