I wrote some similar entries on my blog (http://mobiphil.com), unfortunately I share those observations/opinions. Maybe I am inpatient, but I am not happy to spend time from my life to wait for a phone having done some trivial functions. I think carrying Xwindows is the biggest mistake. I personally encourage QT or new start with gtk on top of www.directfb.org/, so that gtk based interfaces can be reused... By the way did anybody consider gtk with directfb as direction? Or I am wrong and the bottleneck is not really Xwindows?
About the phone's price: you may find for equivalent of 200 euros the glofiish eten m800, and there is a port of openmoko kernel etc (*gnufiish*.org/ ) The eten m800 has a decent keyboard, and this weekend I booted a debian distro. Honestly screen and filesystem on the sd card seem to be a bit faster... If I have time I will do some I/O measurement. Well my plan is to have a vim phone top of directfb console with a keyboard... that will do all the trick... you can have then very fast phone book, todo list etc. ... al in one file :) .. is anybody interested in this particular approach ? :) (it is not a joke, but myself I am smiling about the idea..) regards Mobiphil On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Ben Wong <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Joerg Lippmann<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Then the Freerunner is not for you. > >> > It may sound harsh, but it's definitely *not* suitable for daily use. > >> > Period. > >> > >> I must respectfully disagree with Joerg's advice to you. [...] > > > OK, maybe I should explain. My mail should not be taken as FUD. > > I hope I didn't give the impression that I thought Joerg's message was > FUD. I think calling "FUD" can too often be an ad hominem attack. > Although I disagree with some of Joerg's statements, it's clear that > he's trying to help and is being honest about the Freerunner's value > to him, personally. > > I want to thank Joerg for taking the time to give a clear list of > reasons why a person might consider the Freerunner unsuitable as a > phone. I think it'd be helpful if these and other points were put on > the wiki so that potential buyers can see the arguments against the > Freerunner, and what the community response is. (E.g., Solved? > Kludged? In progress? Unfixable?) > > --Ben > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > -- being mobile, but including technology http://mobiphil.com
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