On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:36:38AM -0400, Feydreva wrote: > I am not a developer, but i test the images and try to use the openmoko... > My main issue with Openmoko are : > > 1) Battery life : only 4hrs, and when you charge it, it discharge itself > after a while. I cannot use it as a daily phone.... :/ > 2) Basic telephony : the phone should wake up faster than it does now.... > the time the phone wakes up, rings, and you pick the call, there has been 6 > rings for the other party, and may already be on the voicemail > 3)Basic text message should work flawlessly. > 4) A way to set up the sound and rings ... There is actually no gui for that
Try install qtopia-phone-x11-ringprofile-app-data You might also need illume-theme-illume and use illume in /etc/enlightenment/default_profile to enable the wrench icon. > 5) I haven;t find yet where to activate the PIN or not... I put 1 sim card > that asked for a pin, it work.. I put a another sim card, where no pin is > needed.. it was still asking for a pin... (I had to reflash to solve this > one) but there is no Menu where I could choose, Pin on/off, if pin on, set > up the pin.... > > > I do not care at all about any other application. I want a daily phone... > where i can receive, make call, receive and send text message, and have the > phone a day with me, wihotut having to cahrge it every 2 hrs... (8-10 hrs > battery life would be better, with wifi on, gps off) > > Until we reach this point, I will continue tu use my dumb phone eeyday, and > the FR will catch some dust on a shelve... > > Peace > Philippe > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > > On 19 Oct 2008, at 13:46, Dale Maggee wrote: > > > > > arne anka wrote: > > >>> ==Pim device== > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> imho that's exactly the kind of task openmoko did _not_ ask for. > > >> > > > I would respectfully disagree - Openmoko asked about "Improving user > > > experience", and users are saying they want to experience PIM > > > capabilities. > > > ... > > >> and it's doable by community! > > >> > > > Agreed, it could be done by the community, but I don't see anyone > > > doing > > > it, and I'm not smart enough, nor do I have the time at the moment. > > > > > > It does not matter whether YOU could do it or not. it's a matter of > > where Openmoko's resources are best spent. > > > > If you can't write a PIM app, then you CERTAINLY can't write kernel > > drivers - THAT is where Openmoko's resources should be mist focussed, > > IMO. As others have stated, there is some hardware-level stuff that > > only Openmoko has NDA for. And without working hardware drivers to > > ensure that phonecalls work flawlessly (and wifi, and bluetooth), a > > PIM is irrelevant. > > > > >> there are a lot of posts lately completely ignoring the point of > > >> "basics" > > >> and "no eyecandy" > > > I haven't seen anybody ask for pretty-looking PIM applications, people > > > seem to be asking for *reliable* PIM applications. I'd call > > > reliability > > > and robustness "basic". > > > > Basic reliability and robustness resides in a program with which you > > can enter a number and make a call. Once that prototype exists it is > > much easier for the community to extend it to PIM functionality. > > Openmoko can then move on to wifi drivers, Glamo hardware acceleration > > and pairing of bluetooth headsets. > > > > >> pim frinst is at it's best part of a middle tier, but rather of a > > >> particular distribution -- > > > This kind of comes into the "Should FSO merge be sped up?" debate, > > > as I > > > believe the framework has PIM stuff built into it. > > > > AIUI (and I would be delighted to be corrected if I'm wrong), the FSO > > stuff is intended to provide functions which will allow you to make > > simple DBUS calls such as "get number $var from PIM manager" and > > "make call to number $var". Once these are complete, writing your own > > applications becomes easy. True the first of these example calls > > requests you integrate the functionality in your own app, but the > > latter makes problems with dealing with the dialler & the GSM chips & > > whatever go away. It is FAR more important to provide the community > > with these tools than it is to provide any kind of application that > > utilises them (beyond a command-line version which gets numbers from a > > text-file and operates as a test example). Once these calls are > > available there will be dozens of PIM managers posted to this list and > > being written by enthusiastic Python programmers. > > > > Stroller. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
