[Gta04-owner] GTA04 testing status

Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller hns at goldelico.com
Wed Jun 29 10:59:27 CEST 2011


> 
> If or when you redesign the PCB, please make a (short) video where you edit the copper-layers via the special java program, that you said was better than most PCB-programs. Possibly with some youtube annotations.
> 
> "A day in a smartphone designers life"

If I don't forget...
BTW - the tool was written in Obj-C and I don't know if
it is better than /most/ PCB programs. It is only better
than /all we have reasonable access to/.

> All smartphones ought to have the possibility to gracefully degrade to a common mobile phone, when e.g. only 25% of the battery capacity is left - while no external power is supplied.

That shouldn't be too difficult. We can simply switch
off VAUX4 and WiFi and BT don't eat any power...

The Chip is said to have approx. this spec:

WiFi operation
	160 ... 250 mA (continuous receive @ 11 MBit/s
			        ... continuous transmit @54Mbit/s)

802.11 Power Save Mode
	10 mA (I don't know when this mode
	becomes enabled by the drivers, if at all)

BT operation
	28 ... 55 mA

BT Deep Sleep
	2 mA

Power Down
	0 mA



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