Ken Young wrote: > Jim Morris wrote: > [...] >> Ya know I don't really care if it is open source or free source or >> commercial, so long as it is >> stable and actually works as a phone! I have a $400 toy at the moment >> which I would like to use as a >> phone one day. >> >> I'll use anything that gets me closer to that goal. > > Does anyone really think that porting Android is going to magically > fix the problems that prevent the Freerunner from being a useful > phone? How likely is it that things like suspend/resume problems > will go away if you port Android? Aren't those problems apt to > be very closely tied to the particulars of the Freerunner hardware? > Porting Android sounds to me like a way to spend a huge amount of > time to produce another distribution for the Freerunner which will > be no more reliable (at best) than the others ones are. > > Ken Young
No magic, I suspect the kernel will be the same, and have potentially the same bugs, however I think the apps will be more stable. By the time Android is ported over, I am hoping there will have been significant progress on the kernel in the other dists, which android and qtextended etc will benefit from. For my part I am very comfortable writing Java, so being able to write apps in Java is a plus for me, and none of the current dists really support Java well (ok it is supported but have you tried writing a good app with that support?). Of course the H/W bugs such as GSM buzz won't get fixed, but I'm still hoping there will be a H/W fix for that which Openmoko will support for GTA02. Besides it seems people love to have several choices ;) -- Jim Morris, http://blog.wolfman.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community