Dear all, questions about buying a FR now or later, waiting for this or that software and using this or that distribution arrive on a regular basis on this list. I read them all although I'm usually quite unhappy with the answers that happen to arrive on such a mailing. IMHO they represent -naturally- rather the authors personal liking of a certain distro than a neutral perspective on the most common issues (buzz, echo, battery, etc.). I understand that it depends a lot on the concrete device (revision) one uses and the circumstances (location, provider, gsm band, etc.) it's used in and -of course- on the personal expectations.
So here's my approach to get the most urgent questions answered by a large group of users while allowing to take the decession on a most neutral base of data. I created a survey with the most important questions - at least to me but I'm happy to "optimize" it to make it usefull for a larger group of people. The questions are: What revisions of the FR are are out there and in use? What distro is used at the most? How many are (still) suffering from buzz/echo? Is there any indication that these problems are located or more frequent in certain corners of the world? The survey is a simple Google-Form. You can see the any entered records as a sheet here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p2ZQdcRSVg9XfYLwBVsZicg To take part in the survey click here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p2ZQdcRSVg9XfYLwBVsZicg I also created a Google-Map where everyone can enter the location of his or her FR, so people, who would like to see and/or touch it before buying their own, could find the closest FR-owner http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115352610340426907999.000461ec26b35ac3fad63&z=7 The Google-Form offers a kind of summary too, which may show some usefull statistics if enough FR-owners take part in the survey. However it cannot, for whatever reason, be made public. If someone is interessted I'll publish the summary somewhere else then. Thanks in advance for your support! Regards thomas _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community