Am Montag 22 Juni 2009 schrieb Ben Wong: > 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?)
Good starting point! I'd like to thank everyone who answered my disgruntled mail in a constructive manner. You all made a good case for the freerunner/openmoko and I appreciate that. I think I see clearer, why I'm so unhappy with it now and maybe that's the case for other people, too. I think, most of the technical answers totally missed my point. The guy wanted a smartphone. He didn't ask for an exiting piece of hardware experimentation lab and developer paradise. If you recommend to tweak this mixer-setting and install that tool and use that kernel-fix, then you prove, that it's not for him. I listed a lot of points, where I got stuck or where I got frustrated with the Freerunner to show, where he might get stuck, too. Granted, most of my points may be solved in distro A or fixed in Kernel B, or fixable by tweaking settings in illume. but the point is, that there is (to my knowledge) not a single distro out there, that works perfectly out of the box and has all the fixes already installed. Thats whats needed, if you want to recommened it to the end-user. You are offering me and this guy single proofs-of-concept, and that is great for further development, but thats not a working everyday smartphone. let me cite another mail (from Vasco Nevoa): "Yes, it needs A LOT of attention and tweaking for about 3 months until you get it "just right" for yourself, but after that it's "good enough" as a phone and GPS, and a pretty good PDA." See my point? Best wishes! j�...@home _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
