I too have tried using the phone as a primary for a few days. Recently, the lack of 850 band coverage has driven me to my backup. Perhaps I'll try again tomorrow.
I have some parallel observations and comments to Igor's: On 10/14/07, Igor Foox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Voice/Talking: > - I tried playing with sidetone in alsamixer but that didn't help, > so I don't think that that's the problem. I worked on different settings and got something that works well in a room or in the car. The one in oe.dev right now has micrphone mixed with the incoming call, which makes usage in my car impossible. I'll see if I can isolate the changes that made it work for me. Also, there's a bug for this already: http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=681 > > UI: > - The current keyboard is highly unusable. I know it's intended to be > used with a stylus, and it's fine for that, but it's completely > unreasonable to expect a user to have a stylus for activities like > SMS, or entering a new contact. And even with pretty small fingers > it's pretty hard for me to type on the keyboard. I totally agree. I can sometimes hit the right key with my fingernail, but backspace is difficult. The keys also have quite a bit of dead space between them, so you have to hit it right on. > - The scrolling is very cool, but it's often difficult to scroll when > the items you're scrolling are clickable, because it incorrectly gets > recognized as a click. I'm constantly launching one of the games when I just want to scroll down to the terminal. > - The dialer application has the "hangup" button on the top right of > the screen when in a call. When you actually talk on the phone it's > _really_ easy to touch that part of the screen with your face, which > results in 3-4 accidental hangups per call. Oops. :-) Same here. Maybe I need to shave closer. > - The "status" icons on the top tend to disappear once in a while. > Sometimes a reboot gets them back. Sometimes it doesn't. But usually > two or three reboots get them back. Very perplexing. :) At one point, the Battery applet was causing this, but I don't know any more. I'll send an update in the next day or two with more observations on my part. --Sagacis _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
