I second this. Ben
>> 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? > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
