On 1/14/08, Mark Arvidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > If your usage is for North America, be aware that the Neo as it is offered > now does not include support for the 850MHz band, so you will only be able > to use the 1900MHz in these parts. > > The battery life is 3-4 hours, and the phone is best charged turned on and > plugged into a Linux computer's USB port. My particular device only > recognizes the sim card every other boot and often forgets to tell me if > somebody is calling (they drop straight to voicemail). Some of this may be > improved with the latest modem flash. > > The basic hardware platform seems solid enough (other than power management > issues). The problems I am seeing seem to be software related, so if the > openmoko software is not required in your application, you might have some > luck. I have enjoyed writing some small bits of software for openmoko, but > still cannot use it as a primary phone. > > Some claim that Qtopia works well on the device. I haven't tried it > recently enough to comment.
I use QTopia and it is functional enough to be my main phone--except for the battery life (which runs to 5 hours pretty consistently for me). In my day to day existence I'm around a lot of USB ports, and I have a portable USB charger so battery life is not such a huge issue. But yeah, besides the battery life everything works. The next step is "works well" which hasn't been reached yet. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
