best. email. yet. you should link that sms script. perhaps it can be modified to siphon off the contacts too
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Ben Wong <lists.openmoko....@wongs.net>wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Joerg Lippmann<jl_li...@donalbain.de> > wrote: > > > Then the Freerunner is not for you. > > It may sound harsh, but it's definitely *not* suitable for daily use. > Period. > > Brolin, > > I must respectfully disagree with Joerg's advice to you. There are > flaws, including the ones Joerg points out, but they do not > necessarily make the Freeruner unsuitable as a daily phone. I think > it depends on the person. I use mine daily as my only phone and it > works well for me. From your description of yourself, I suspect you > would be happy with a Freerunner as well, as long as you don't expect > it to do everything you want out of the box. > > Battery life? Yes, Joerg is correct that it's mediocre. I do charge > it every night, but that's not a big deal, especially since it charges > off of any USB port. > > The sound quality is "terrible" according to Joerg, but that has not > been my experience. Perhaps I'm just lucky, having bought a later > model unit, but people have actually been telling me how crystal clear > I sound compared to my old Samsung phone. The one thing I don't like > about the sound on the Freerunner is that the default volume is too > low, but it's not been enough of a problem for me to even look into > how to increase it. > > Joerg also mentioned that the device is "lame". I'm not quite sure > what he means. The Freerunner is certainly lacking features that some > proprietary phones boast, such as a multitouch interface and 3G/4G > data transfer. Since I live in a big city and have WiFi nearly > everywhere I go, the lack of 3G is not a disadvantage for me. And > multitouch? Well, somehow I survive without. > > The one thing that jumps out at me in your request, Brolin, is keeping > your SMS messages on the microSD card instead of the SIM. I know that > the SHR distribution, which I'm using, stores everything on the SIM by > default. Perhaps David Ford's improved SMS app will do what you want? > Alternatively, if you are happy with simply archiving your SMS to a > text file, David Ford sent out a one line script to do so about a > month ago. (I can dig it up if you need.) > > --Ben > > > > 2009/6/17 David Murrell <dmurr...@waikato.ac.nz> > >> Fundamentally, at this point, my Openmoko Freerunner fails the Not > >> Interested in Technology - Significant Other Acceptance Procedure, > >> otherwise known NIT-SOAP. > > > That is not a problem for me because I am single. :) > > P.S. You may not be single for long. One little known feature of the > Freerunner is that it is an Ultra-Powerful Magnet for Attractive > People. They will sidle up to you and exclaim, "OMG! Is that a > Debian box in your pocket?!" ;-) > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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