I believe Sean and the rest of the Openmoko crowd was thinking in people like you when they decide to start this awesome trip ;)
Thanks Scott for this encorageous post :) El jue, 11-09-2008 a las 20:49 -0700, SCarlson escribió: > > Hello All -- > > I'd like to pipe in with my New Freerunner experiences thus far. > > I have had my phone for 2 weeks. I loaded up OM2008.8-update. > > Here is the list : > > Solid GSM (Sending and Receiving). No Echo, clear calls, full bars. > My SIM Card contact list imported automatically. > SMS, Solid. > Wifi, also works great. > GPS works. 60 second TTFF and 40 second TTFF w/ external antenna (This is > without the capacitor fix) > microSd works. > Suspend/Resume .. solid (minus the GUI setting having no effect. but I > don't care, I just suspend manually with the power button when I'm not using > it). > I made a usb cable, so now my phone can receive standard USB devices.. this > opens many doors. > > When I was shopping for a mobile computer/phone, I scraped the planet for > something open and hackable. What I found was nice machines with propriety > software that goes through a Telecom company, which is then purposely > crippled and released for public consumption. Most of the crippling process > is based on a Business model that "nickels and dimes" us to death for > services and features that (I believe) we should already have. In the end, > the only answer for me was to by the GTA02. > > I'd like to say, that I'm here to stay, "on the band wagon", lets kick some > ass... > > Completely Satisfied, > Scott R Carlson _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community