I've got a simple success to share. My nine year old niece and her family expressed an interest in geocaching. I said, "Oh, my phone does GPS!" which led to this series of Happy Moko Moments:
* Used Midori over GPRS to create an account on geocaching.com and to look up the latitude and longitude of the closest cache to their home. * Showed a map with TangoGPS. * Downloaded the SimpleCaching application from opkg.org. * As a family outing, we followed the arrow in SimpleCaching to a park, to a statue named "Sensei", to a nearby tree, and finally to a rock under the tree. * Found the hidden treasure, put some items inside. * My niece and her family had a lot of fun, all thanks to my neo. --Ben On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Warren Baird<wjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > There seems to be a repeated theme of people posting how crappy the > Freerunner is and how nothing works for them. Usually a number of people > then jump on the thread and talk about how the FR works well for them. > > I like to try turning that around and start a thread for people to talk > about their successes. Maybe if we get enough good ones we can push it > onto the wiki. > > Here are a few of my own: > > - the GPS with tangogps has been really useful to me a number of times, > especially on business trips > - Pidgin over GPRS has come in quite handy several times, either when I > didn't have my laptop with me, or didn't have wifi coverage > - It's very useful as a PDF reader - with the high-res screen I've been > able to read documents while walking or while standing on a metro or bus, > when getting out a laptop wouldn't have worked well. > - I was able to show off the client software from my 'day job' - a quite > complex j2se application - running on a cell phone, which definitely > impressed people. > > What are your successes with the Freerunner? > > Warren > > -- > Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist > http://www.synergisticimages.ca > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community