On Wednesday 30 December 2009, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: > On 12/30/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? > > > > No. > > I still test stuff on it when time permits. > > > > Do you use FR as your primary PDA? > > > > > > No. Currently, I don't have a PDA. The only thing I need from a PDA is to > > sync with my calendar at work (Exchange mailbox), and the FreeRunner > > can't do that (yet?). > > > >> What distribution you run most of the time? > > > > QtMoko. > > Note: I would have tested more distributions had there existed an _easy_ > > way to boot several distributions (multi-boot) from one SD card. > > Currently it seems that each distribution requires a different > > bootloader. > > I only know about Android needing forked Qi. Which other distro also > requires you to have custom bootloader?
I guess Android only needs a forked Qi because it needed different boot parameters, and Qi can't read them from file when booting from NAND. I find uboot very easy for multibooting. > >> If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change > >> over to, and why? > > > > Nokia E61, then a Nokia basic model (the E61 died( > > > > I never switched _to_ the FreeRunner, because of the short battery life. > > Having to charge it one or more times during 8 hours is to much hassle > > for me, and impractical, as I don't carry a computer with me at all > > times. > > Strange, maybe your QtMoko just doesn't do well power management. Here > I need to recharge every ~2 days of normal usage, and battery time > when using GPS is also just nice, for instance for GSM cell logging (I > have second battery from my old Nokia and I don't need more) I get ~2days between charges most of the time too. GPS tracklogs cut it a lot, more because of not suspending than the GPS power itself, but see below for how this compares to a coupe of other handsets. > > I really wanted to use the FreeRunner as a GPS (for tracking), but the > > short battery life (even shorter with GPS active all the time) makes it > > impractical. I used the FR for recording tracklogs while walking over the summer. Friends were using the GPS on a G1 and a Sony-Ericsson (don't know the model) and they ran into battery problems much faster than I did. I was pleasantly surprised that the FR outperfomed them convincingly in this situation. The S-E also had trouble getting a lock when it couldn't get a cell data connection. > > -- > > Regards, > > Torfinn Ingolfsen > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
