i use it for about a year now as sole phone, after some weeks with 2007.X i installed debian with fso (a kind of distri you forgot to metion, too).
> - The device wakes up too slowly, I lost some calls. no problem for month now. > - The vibrator is too weak, I missed more calls. most if not all vibrators i have known i cellphones were _way_ weaker -- most notably the treo650's, which made me lose more calls than the fr until now. > - The volume is way to low, You can really only use it indoors. no problem here. > - The Display is too dark for sunny days, even in the shade. -no problem here > - I lost many SMS. I eventually receiced most of them after restarting > the > device experienced tha a long time ago, imo at least in fso that is fixed. > - The battery lasts only a few hours, again, I lost many calls (this > depends > on the distro. But even with a »good« one, I had cases in which the > device did > not suspend due to something crashing) dunno, what you mean by "couple of hours", i get at least 48h standby, crashing and leaving th fr in a unsuable state happens every couple of month. i say, that's a rate other devices have too. > - Sometimes I cannot access the phonebook (Android, SHR) no problem here, but i use zhone and tweaked it to read not from sim but vcf file. > - Wifi does not work reliably and it takes a long time to connect. true > - The device/software is terribly slow. How fast was even the oldest > palm in comparison! compared with a plam, that's true -- but then, the palms were never able to do multi tasking. > - the on-screen keyboards are all terrible for finger-typing. I liked > the one from QTe, but you have to install german wordlists by hand. Also > it was > impractical to switch upper/lowercase. Best solution would be to use > landscape automatically. no problems here, i use matchbox-keyboard, which is sufficient for my needs. and i am no friend of completion either. > - Even simple tasks like inserting the number of the caller into the > addressbook is sometimes impossible or very complicated. far to general -- what software/distribution are you talking about? > - The alarm clock does not work reliably. don't know, i never used them. in the beginning there were no working alarms and i bought a little alarm clock, which is the only use i have for alarms anyway. > - When the battery is completely empty, it takes ages to reload the > phone and you're not able to turn it on even when plugged in. not more than about 1h -- after that the fr is able to boot and you can access it. > - You cannot sync dates or even contacts, PIM-functions are virtually > non-existent. ever checked avaliable sw repos? debian has all kinds of sw available and thus even pim, the integration with other apps (namely calling/sms) is indeed missing so far. and with those apps you can sync the same way you would eg a laptop's pim with a desktop's > (And I did not mention nice things like video-playback, a good > MP3-Player, voice-notes, a nice email-Interface or a feed-aggregator...) see above. if you can't find apps for non-debian distris, it's most likely because of the fact that no one missed the really so far and cared to create them. i for one don't miss those. i don't say (like you do) "it is ready. period", but i say "it is ready for _me_ and sufficiently fits _my_ needs. period." _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
