oFono announced
 

This seems like a Big Deal; is this the telephony stack for Maemo 5? Or Maemo 6?

oFono has just been announced!

oFono is licensed under GPLv2, and it includes a high-level D-Bus API for use by telephony applications of any license. oFono also includes a low-level plug-in API for integrating with Open Source as well as third party telephony stacks, cellular modems and storage back-ends. The plug-in API functionality is modeled on public standards, in particular 3GPP TS 27.007 “AT command set for User Equipment (UE).”
Nokia and Intel will jointly maintain the oFono project. We'd like to invite all developers to join the ofono.org effort and community.

There will eventually be is an architecture diagram and there's a git repo...

(thanks to Aki Niemi's post to the mailing list)

http://www.protocolpolice.com/~aki/ofono-640.png

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did they just obsolete openmoko???

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Any idea this will be included in fremantle?

i need this info so that i dont buy an additional phone

thanks

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Considering the timeline, I think this must be for Harmattan, not Fremantle... But maybe I'm wrong?

I'm guessing the Nokia modem plugin is going to be a closed source binary. But that still leaves a lot of amazing openness.

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the diagram shows the nokia plugin in side the gpl border...

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Maemo 5 will include HSPA data which obviously needs some kind of cellular modem to work. So, some of the work in the oFono project will be commercialised in Maemo 5. Otherwise, the oFono project is our way of contributing our competence from the world of mobility to open source.

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i was talking about the gsm/ cellular phone part.

okay here is my question,

Can i sell both my n810 and n95-4 and just buy the n900 for everything including cellular calls?

thanks

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Maemo Software is an R&D unit in Nokia meaning that we work on all kinds of things in research and on engineering level. Whether we go the last mile and bring our work into a product that you could buy depends on for what portfolio segment we use Maemo software. The oFono project is about working together in open source style and contributing our skills about mobile telephony. Since our colleagues from Intel help out this project as well, one would think that the leaders in mobile communication and computing technology can come up with some useful for the whole open source community.

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Yes, we appreciate that! :)

But I also want to know if I should buy a new phone (because my old one is in a bad shape) or wait for the n900 to make my gsm calls.

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Just looking at that diagram tells me this is a major announcement, but Ofono.org's about page still leaves me (as an end user) with some questions, such as:

What new end user features and functions will this stack enable?

What features and functions currently provided by the Linux kernel and existing telephony apps is Ofono intended to replace, augment or improve?

I suspect this annoucement will generate a lot of debate within the developer circles, but since this was posted under General category it would be nice to see also human readable explanations and speculation. :cool: