On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Joerg Lippmann <jl_li...@donalbain.de>wrote:
> 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... My experience has been quite different - I've found the OM to be quite a reliable phone with both the QtE distro, and with the recent OM2009 testing releases. I did have to update the alsa config to get decent audio quality (my FR is off for a buzz-fix now, so hopefully I'll have even better audio when I get it back). Both QtE and the most recent OM2009 TR5 are quite stable, and I get about 36-48 hours on standby, which is consistent with my wife's iPhone. QtE was perhaps a smoother, prettier user experience, but was lacking quite a few applications - although I see that some people are working to allow X based apps to run with QtE, which might have a very nice result. The only real gap I find with OM2009 is that I haven't found a calendar app that supports syncml, I haven't managed to get bluetooth working, and I've had some problems with wifi. From that I've got quite a bit of useful software - a browser that works reasonably well (woosh) albeit a little slow on a gprs link, pretty good gps support, some fun games, a decent pdf viewer, etc. Warren -- Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist http://www.synergisticimages.ca
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