Wow. Just. Wow. After being heads down on other projects for a while, I check in on the web site and read:
> Note that the Neo 1973 can not currently run the OM 2008.8 software > (the latest release), and that there are no immediate plans to make > that happen. Users should instead purchase a Freerunner if they wish > to participate in the Openmoko community. (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA01:Neo_1973) ... and then I find a message to the list from Wolfgang at OpenMoko, saying: > I am only aware of 1 (ONE) functioning GTA01 in the Taipei office. A > bit hard to do development and testing that way. > Next week we will look at the Om 2008.8 on GTA01 situation: > > 1. how many people want this? > > How many GTA01s did you sell? Gotta be a few thousand. I'm sure we all bought them assuming *someday* we'd have a usable phone. Right now, I have a usable GPS, thanks to TangoGPS, other than the fact that the battery dies before I finish most of my hikes (making it useless as a GPS, too, other than for novelty value). When I got the GTA01, I assumed that someday it would be usable as a PDA and phone, and could hand off to my wife and then get a GTA02. Instead, I essentially have a $350 paperweight. So when GTA03 comes out, does GTA02 get abandoned? I'd say, the minimum that we need for GTA01 would: 1. have working, reliable GSM service to use as a phone 2. have working, reliable suspend/resume so that you can get more than 4 hours at a time, without breaking the other features 3. provide working SMS, 4. have an address book, and calendar in some form that can be synchronized with desktop/online services 5. have a GPS/mapping software that works. So as best I can tell, we have 4 out of 5, but not even in any combination that can be run together. Can we at least get 1 to 4 done in some core release, so we can call it a phone? -- John Locke "Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems" published by Charles River Media, June 2004 http://www.freelock.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
