Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? > YES. It's my only phone for over a year. I did the buzzfix and gps cap myself and got no complaints there. Adjusting the call volume is a sorely missed feature, though. But the slowness of the software does tend to screw up things when more than one thing happens at the same time (simultaneous incoming calls, etc.) > Do you use FR as your primary PDA? > YES. GPS, password vault, the occasional Mokomaze. GPRS and WIFI are too unstable for any real connection, so no web or email. And bluetooth is just not there (no GUI == not there for the user). Does anyone else have trouble doing opkg ugrade over gprs? mine hangs after a bit. > What distribution you run most of the time? > SHR-U (currently the old one from September, which works stable enough as a phone.) The new Testing is quite broken, and I couldn't understand why the new Unstables where older than the Testing ones. Now that I see a lot of people is using the Unstable, it's probably meant to be like that -- and just opkg upgrade all the time. Will try it today... > If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change > over to, and why? > I haven't switched out because it is good enough as a simple working phone and a very basic GPS. Other than that, it is crap. I don't blame the community for the state of things; I think that Openmoko.com started by biting off much more than it could chew, failed to build a solid community, then realized the dead end which they put themselves into, and backed out on all of us into "plan B". I understand the economics that forced OM to reboot and start over with the Wikireader, but I will always resent the fact that I spent 300 EUR on a badly designed and even worse tested hardware. I cannot forgive them for releasing this HW into the public without a fully patched kernel and drivers and a full list of known caveats after an honest effort to completely test the device. They somehow thought that time-to-market was more important than quality and reliability. Personally, I think there is no forgiveness for them because of this. Having said that, I am admired at this community that still keeps kicking the dead horse with a passion, and there is a small thread of hope inside my heart that this brick will someday fulfill at least half of its promises. And if it does, it will all be due to the work of these last few heroes - and I thank you so much. The Openmoko project is to me a disappointment as big as the cancellation of SG-1 and Firefly: there was still so much to do and say, but economics had the last word. Well, at least there are positive things left behind like the FSO and the colorful ecosystem of other distros and apps. Have a nice 2010 everyone!! :D May the source always be with you. > > Thank you :) > > > r > >
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