Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 schrieb Nicola Mfb: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Ivan Shirokov<[email protected]> > wrote: [...] > > >> Well, I would say it was a very bad joke. I spent eq. of 400 dolars, I > >> was waiting 1 year for glamo acceleration etc, etc. that would make the > >> phone usable etc, and it turns out, that it will never be. With the slow > >> bus, one can forget about acceleration... What can be accelerated if you > >> have to send information about complex bitmaps... > > > > That's really sad =( > > AFAIK there is still some space for improvement in general responsiveness. > Actually there is a busy loop eating CPU to wait for graphical > operations to complete. > There are working in progress to avoid that. When the fix will be > ready *and* adopting a good design pattern for applications (e.g. > GUI/logic multithreading split, fusion of frequently used phone tasks > in monolitic one-shot load and forget applications) we may see an > acceptable speedy freerunner.
When will that be? When the device is completely obsolete? Sorry, but after a year of waiting I still have an expensive brick that I can neither use as a proper phone (speaker still WAY to low, too unstable, too slow, too battery-hungry) nor as a PDA (no usable software available). So I really regret my decision to buy it. But then again, it was touted as a real phone for end-users back then and being a happy Linux-User for 14 years, I thought that I could live with some minor flaws... I'm really for the idea of freeing the phone (thats why I bought one), free hardware and the community. And I really loved to see this effort to succeed. But I came to realize that I start to hate this sluggish, instable device without good software. I cannot help it. I haven't found a single distro that works well out of the box. The best ones so far were QTopia/QTe and Android. And neither are really community efforts. So I consider my personal experiment (buying a community-driven phone for 300 EUR) as failed. Sorry. -- j�...@home _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
