Hi Cristian Paul,
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:57:43PM -0500, Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas wrote:
Schematics will be published in PDF form only, Gerber/PCB files will not be released (so basically the same like the OsmoSDR situation).
Is it due some restricted format from layout software or third party contract clause?
Actually, both is true and there's little flexibility on that side :/
As you mentioned there will not be LCM/Keypad or similar, useful for a theoretically Open Hardware Phone, so by limiting access to layout/gerber stops a bit the chance one some day can free it and make a derivate work.
Well, I'd say there will be plenty of connectors. The LCD (even on the compal/motorola phones) is just attached to I2C (plus the backlight pwm). And the keypad is just the matrix.
We _may_ actually be able to put the circular "button" footprint for something like the C123 keypad on the back side of the PCB, as so far this is "only" a ground plane. Depends a bit on the effort, and where/how somebody could source those thin membrane keyboards.
Regards, Harald