Another vote for bluetooth 4.0 APT-X and ANT+ if possible.
Even if it requires both the TI chip and the nordic one. And even if ANT+ remains the only closed PAN spec. Its worth it.
ANT+ can do mesh nodes, and multiple screen streaming which is something that is unheard of with bluetooth.

I'm not holding out much hope that this will come to premonition but i do hope you guys will atleast consider it.



EDIT:
I'm retracting my statements about adding ANT+. (atleast for the time being)
I think it might be a bit to much to ask considering parts of it are a closed spec.


I still am holding out hope for BLE and a higher bitrate codec if possible along with just saying i hope everything listed on the spec page is perfectly doable as well.

re WLAN/BT: we tend to use wl1273 based tiwi5 module, see
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.....8V_IO.29_EVMs
http://projects.goldelico.com/p/neo900/issues/546/


on an unrelated amusing sidenote that shows some aspects of what we're facing when doing hw development (though not exactly closely linked to EE):
http://www.theguardian.com/technolog.../sonyuserscrew (thanks to r00t for sharing)

Do we got drivers with monitor mode support for this module ?

http://projects.goldelico.com/p/neo9...es/546/#ic1610

I saw it, but I also found some threads about problems with monitor mode on N9.

well, all I can say is: wl12xx kernel driver sounds like a fit for all wl1251/53/71/73. And wl1251 in N900 has a injection kernel driver. Best guess: it works for wl1273 too. N9 problems don't come by surprise, given the tivoized kernel and aegis-infested kernel domain that doesn't allow loading of customized device drivers. But in the end I can't guarantee what TiWi5 can do. I just can dig up same info you can find in the internet. We can't verify the hardware to do injection. So it's just a best guess that it should work, according to all I know about.

Sorry if this has been asked before - I would imagine the software is going to be modded a little to acomodate the new features?

Alien Dalvik was working on android apps on the N900 (maemo)

Is it at all possible to get android apps working on the N900?

A little update:
I found http://www.ti.com/product/lp55281 for controlling the kbd backlight RGB LEDs, so this seems secured.
We're currently discussing battery management and charging, ensuring charge-from-flat-battery and boot-without-battery. Odds are we will go for bq24150 for charger/bat-mgmt

cheers
jOERG

Well after a long time away from here this is a great thread to see, im so for this omg really do miss my n900 since a broken USB

Will defo keep an eye on this.

I all,

I miss the progress update for january and february, hope we will have some news in march ;-)