Openmoko has departed the cellphone business and no longer makes the
FreeRunner, although you can buy them and there is still very large
community support.
Arie Skliarouk wrote:
Hi,
Four months later... Responding to myself :)
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 13:05, Arie Skliarouk <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
For a long time I find myself looking for an open smartphone, with
Linux and GPS.
Initially I had high hopes for OpenMoko's platform, but now I think
it is dying for several reasons:
* their's latests phone model Freerunner has audio issues
The bug affects only 2% of users:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Buzz_Fix
Is it the case in Israel as well?
* It has weak connectivity (GPRS)
It should not matter much as I am not going to use the internet much
because of the outrageous cellular internet prices that are in use in
Israel. It is somewhat an advantage, as you can't break the internet
limit easily.
The GPRS speed (64Kbit/s) should be enough for SIP call. Can someone
confirm that?
And how fast is battery drained when GPRS is constanly on (For chats,
incoming SIP calls, updates)?
* There is no quality applications for it (like GPS turn-by-turn
navigation) due to chicken-egg problem and lack of DRM.
Someone reported using freerunner with android and andnav2 (albeit slow
and requires internet access)
http://android.koolu.org/pipermail/android-freerunner-koolu.org/2009-August/001260.html
This makes me look into direction of Android G1. It is too young to
have elaborated applications support, but it already has
http://www.andnav.org/ that uses OpenStreetMap data.
The android-freerunner is pretty active lately:
http://android.koolu.org/pipermail/android-freerunner-koolu.org/2009-September/thread.html
So it can be viewed as a cheap version of the real Android, albeit
without the Android Market.
Currently there is no coverage for Israel though:
http://www.andnav.org/images/stories/news/coverage/
The andnav page does not say that Israel is supported, but there already
is MapTilePack for Israel:
http://wiki.andnav.org/index.php/List_Of_MapTilePacks/
Has anyone checked andnav with that?
--
Arie
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