Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-02-15 Thread Sergey Alembekov
On 29.12.2009 23:30, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
no

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
yes (fbreader and listening music)

 What distribution you run most of the time?
shr


 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
At the summer, after 1024 and buzz fixes i tried to use it for a two 
weeks as daily phone, but i lost several important calls and need to 
reboot twice a day. Will try it with new kernel.

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-02-09 Thread Neil Brown
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:17:17 -0800 (PST)
Mike Crash m...@mikecrash.com wrote:

 
 No
 Yes
 Debian

Yes
No
Debian


The recent innovation of compiling the kernel with the go-slow straps removed
has had a significant improvement on my experience.  Now if only I could
figure out why the gprs is not reliable I'd be on my way to being happy.
I guess we cannot hope for the GSM firmware being made open-source...

(any New Zealand residents out there?  I visited NZ in Jan, bought a 2degrees
SIM can and found that I couldn't send SMS messages though receiving and
calls were fine.  SIM worked fine in another phone. Does anyone else
experience that?)

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your FreeRunner?

2010-01-17 Thread Brolin Empey
Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes.


 What distribution you run most of the time?

I use only QtMoko.


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 03-01-2010 06:10, Ken Young escreveu:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

There's no decent PDA software for the FR, and I have no other, so No.

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-u

Rui

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Koolu's Qi fork (was: Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Fertser
Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk writes:
 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.

First of all, i do not exactly understand why koolu decided that they
really need another MTD partitioning scheme. There was never any
discussion about that.

Second, they should have warned their users in a big bold letters.

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-05 Thread Kosa
 On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
Yes
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
Yes
 What distribution you run most of the time?
shr-u


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Smith
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:30:53 +0200
Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

No

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-U

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

I still use my palm pilot as my PDA through I am writing an application for SHR 
to replace the palm pilot.
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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Olivier Migeot
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes, though my use of a PDA is a bit scarce. Mostly GPS-based
functions (OSM tracks and the such).

 What distribution you run most of the time?

A (somewhat outdated) shr-u.

Happy new year to all of you.

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Risto H. Kurppa a écrit :
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
Yes, since july 2008 (rev5, buzzfixed one year later)

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
Yes.
 
 What distribution you run most of the time?
SHR for a long time, Android currently (very comfy + great browser/wifi)

 
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
 
 
 Thank you :)
You're welcome.



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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Bernd Prünster
jeremy jozwik wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
   
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
 What distribution you run most of the time?
 
yes
yes
shr-u


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Xavier Vens
no
no
shr-u


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Bernd Prünster
bernd.pruens...@gmail.com wrote:
 jeremy jozwik wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
 What distribution you run most of the time?

 yes
 yes
 shr-u


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread -= Apertum =-


* Ken Young wrote, Il 03/01/2010 07:10:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 

Yes, but always with some problems.

The *biggest* problem is battery life of my FR, because some times i
cannot finish a day with a full charge, doing only some short calls.
It's a big issue from day 0, IMHO, never really solved. I'm very happy
of the screen and solid design of the FR, but his graphic speed and
responsiveness (with QtMoko, at least) some times it's not good.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
 
Yes, but without the copy/paste fuction and a still not so good touch
keyboard, also here i've some problem.
But using  it as a pure GPS device, it's really good.

 What distribution you run most of the time?
 
QtMoko (latest version compilad and maintained by the great Radek
Polak), that is Qt based over a Debian (as i understand).

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Esben Stien
Ken Young r...@cfa.harvard.edu writes:

 there is really no hope at that a group of people such as the
 gta02-core team, working part time with no large corporate sponsor,
 will ever produce a product with hardware on a par with what the big
 players are contemporaneously offering.

Do you still don't know to never underestimate enthusiasts?. 

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Esteban Monge
Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
Yes
Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
Yes

What distribution you run most of the time?
QtMoko

If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
over to, and why?

Sometime ago I has two phones, a Nokia 5130 and a Nokia 5310, but I think in
the complete change to the clear side of the force, and sold together and
bought another Neo Freerunner for diary use and one for experiments!!!
Actually have one for diary use and for experiments...


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Whither open hardware ? (was Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-03 Thread Werner Almesberger
Ken Young wrote:
 My two cents:   If I were dictator of the gta02-core team (instead of
 someone who doesn't even contribute), I would repurpose the device as a
 GPS PDA.   I would remove all the radio components except for the WiFi,
 and try to optimize for the longest battery life possible.

Companies who were looking for a device for some project often asked
Openmoko Inc. if they could have a GTA02 with some features removed
or with other - often small - changes. Unfortunately, Openmoko Inc.
did not have the resources for making such derivatives.

However, this is a promise the approach chosen for gta02-core holds:
with the whole design out in the open (Open Design Hardware [1]),
anyone can independently define, implement, and produce derivatives.

[1] http://people.openmoko.org/werner/openness/odhwdr-v1.pdf

This doesn't mean that everyone is forced to fight all alone. To the
contrary, there are many possible synergies along the way that are
not visible as such in the traditional product development process,
such as shared sourcing or shared manufacturing.

For example, if you want to make your GPS PDA, you may choose a set
of changes that fits your budget, e.g., by staying with the overall
platform and physical shape but removing subsystems you don't need.

When it then comes to sourcing components and manufacturing, the
same facilities used for making the phone could offer their services
also to your project. The incremental cost for them would be very
small, much smaller than running a completely different product of
similar complexity.

Also the core company (or whatever form of organization) in charge
of the base design would benefit. If it has spare engineering
resources to put into derivative projects, it can choose to do so,
favouring projects that best suit its agenda.

If not, others can help out. Thus, the business opportunity is not
wasted - it only goes to someone else you could think of as an ally.
Even better, resources that can be shared contribute back to the
whole ensemble of projects. E.g., if your PDA is wildly successful,
sourcing may be able to get much getter conditions for parts than
they did with just the phone. Or a new type of subsystem gets
researched and is then available as a possible building block for
the entire architectural family. Thus also the phone benefits.

Now some may say that this is crazy and that anyone handing out
designs so liberally would be robbed by competitors. In my
experience, it's surprisingly hard to get people to steal your
cool new ideas. Eventually, the thieves and parasites will show up,
but you have to be successful for an awfully long time before they
even notice you.

 [...] but rather to point out that there
 is really no hope at that a group of people such as the gta02-core team,
 working part time with no large corporate sponsor, will ever produce a
 product with hardware on a par with what the big players are
 contemporaneously offering.

I agree on the point that there's no hope to mass-produce a phone
without suitable resources. The resources don't have to be in one
hand (e.g., you could have a consortium of entities each
contributing their own capabilities and splitting the proceeds),
but they have to be available.

However, I don't think it's necessary to compete on leading edge
technology. Often enough, less advanced components will yield an
equally satisfying product. Besides, companies that don't have the
sexiest product in their sector of the market are often much
friendlier towards openness than those who do.

Please don't take the poor performance of GTA01 or GTA02 as too much
of an indicator of what second best can do. Both are based on very
conservative designs (e.g., no DDR) and GTA02 has two thirds of its
high-throughput peripherals share an incredibly slow bus.

(Think of a first-generation PCI-based PC where someone chooses to
use ISA cards for video and the SCSI controller. Would such a system
properly represent the typical performance of the PCI architecture ?)

The 2442 is now about five years old, and it shows all over the
place. In an updated but similar design, unlike gta02-core suitable
for mass-production, I would use something like the 2450, which has
high-speed USB, 2D acceleration, and other goodies.

 In contrast, I think there still might be an unexploited niche in the
 GPS-PDA arena.

I think there is a whole universe full of unexplored niches. It's
hidden from us by a tall wall called high cost of entry. If we can
find ways to lower that wall, a lot of interesting things should
happen.

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Re: Whither open hardware ? (was Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-03 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Werner Almesberger wer...@openmoko.org wrote:
 The 2442 is now about five years old, and it shows all over the
 place. In an updated but similar design, unlike gta02-core suitable
 for mass-production, I would use something like the 2450, which has
 high-speed USB, 2D acceleration, and other goodies.

There is also the openpandora project:
http://www.open-pandora.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=categorylayout=blogid=2Itemid=2lang=en

Is it unsuitable for a phone because of power inefficiency?
Can be the ARM Cortex-A8 600Mhz used in a future phone?

Laszlo

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Re: Whither open hardware ? (was Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-03 Thread Joerg Eesmann
Hi,
I would love to have an open phone with OMAP processor like OpenPandora
and BeagleBoard. Both have the OMAP 3530 with 3D acceleration and DSP.
Maybe a phone doesn't need the DSP. But it is amazingly powersufficient,
IMO. The phone would be up to date from processor power, and there
should not be a resource problem so soon, I guess. BeagleBoard and
OpenPandora are both well supported in OE, so from SW-side there should
not be so much effort (in theorie, you kow...).
From HW-side another nicy is the POP (package on package). In the
BeagleBoard they are using a variant, where the RAM and NAND (both in
one Chip) is soldered on top of the processor, so the high speed lines
to DDR-RAM are not going through the PCB (on the other of course, you
have the process of soldering...).
... just dreaming ...
Joerg

On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 20:39 +0100, Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
 On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Werner Almesberger wer...@openmoko.org 
 wrote:
  The 2442 is now about five years old, and it shows all over the
  place. In an updated but similar design, unlike gta02-core suitable
  for mass-production, I would use something like the 2450, which has
  high-speed USB, 2D acceleration, and other goodies.
 
 There is also the openpandora project:
 http://www.open-pandora.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=categorylayout=blogid=2Itemid=2〈=en
 
 Is it unsuitable for a phone because of power inefficiency?
 Can be the ARM Cortex-A8 600Mhz used in a future phone?
 
 Laszlo
 
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Re: Whither open hardware ? (was Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-03 Thread Werner Almesberger
Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
 Is it unsuitable for a phone because of power inefficiency?
 Can be the ARM Cortex-A8 600Mhz used in a future phone?

There are many component choices for future phones. Things to consider
when choosing chips include:

- do they fit the intended purpose ?
- are they open enough for our purposes ?
- are they available (to us) ?
- will they be available as long as we need them ?
- are they affordable ?
- what are the integration costs ?
- what are the opportunity costs ?
- do they work as intended ?
- how do they fit our technical capabilities ?
- what legal exposures do they cause ?

Of course, you don't see companies advertize much on the issues listed
above. Quite to the contrary - how often does one see a feature
presented as patented proprietary technology as if this was a good
thing ?

- Werner

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-02 Thread Petr Vanek
Hi Risto,

what would be your answers?

Here is a quick sum up of the answers. Including answers from shr-user
list as well:

responded 81

Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes 55, No 26

Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes 58, No 23

What distribution you run most of the time?

(some gave more then 1 distro, max 2 were counted)

SHR 63
QTMoko 10
Debian 6
H:1 4
Gentoo 2
Android 2
om2008 2

Kind Regards
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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-02 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes (GPS and GPRSIRC, for other tasks I use my eeepc)

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-testing

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

I had to go back to my wife's old Nokia but after #1024 fix
(http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/12/fixing-openmoko-hardware-bug-1024/)
I upgraded to latest SHR-testing and got many issues fixed (battery
life and audio quality improved a lot).

 Thank you :)

Thank you :)


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-02 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz wrote:
 Hi Risto,

 what would be your answers?

 Here is a quick sum up of the answers. Including answers from shr-user
 list as well:

 responded 81

Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

 Yes 55, No 26

Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 Yes 58, No 23

What distribution you run most of the time?

 (some gave more then 1 distro, max 2 were counted)

 SHR 63
 QTMoko 10
 Debian 6
 H:1 4
 Gentoo 2
 Android 2
 om2008 2

 Kind Regards
 Petr

Wow, thanks for this summary!!


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-02 Thread Juergen Schinker
Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
 
 What distribution you run most of the time?

Yes since 26c3
Yes
H:1


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-02 Thread Petr Vanek
That can be bug then, I'll try to check it (I'm sure it doesn't happen
when sending from opimd-utils)

hmm, all my test sms messages to myself eventually arrived during the
evening*. i haven't heard notify (but the phone was tucked in my
pocket), so most probably not a fr bug unless somewhere deep in
framework-calypso communication causing some delays in receiving. but
the GSM signal here is quite weak so who knows...

* hey, that storage is great, now only the sent view is missing :))

cheers
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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-02 Thread Cédric Berger
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 21:30, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
Not anymore

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
No

 What distribution you run most of the time?
Android

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
HTC Magic (Android)
because it works
and brings some freedom anyway

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-01 Thread qu kai
Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
yes!!

Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
Yes!

What distribution you run most of the time?

Debian!!


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-01 Thread Enaut Waldmeier
2010/1/1 qu kai qukaim...@gmail.com



 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

yes! but I use i the mobile as often as i used it before i had the moko.
(had no other mobile) So not to often.



 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 Yes! pretty much the same here.



 What distribution you run most of the time?


SHR



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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-01 Thread Petr Vanek
answering for two people here:


Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
yes
Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
yes
What distribution you run most of the time?
android, shr

---

Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
no
Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
yes
What distribution you run most of the time?
shr


Petr


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-01 Thread Linus Gasser
Le 29.12.09 21:30, Risto H. Kurppa a écrit :
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

No

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

No

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR or hackable:1

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

The most simple Nokia money can buy. I need to be able to answer phones, 
not:
- scream because buzzing makes it impossible for anybody to understand me
- taking 4 times as much time for writng an SMS compared to the most 
cheap Nokia
- constantly loosing SMS or having long SMS cut in two
- rebooting two or three times a day before receiving calls or being 
able to make
- taking 5 minutes to write an appointement when it takes me 10 seconds 
to do with my do-it-yourself-paper-agenda

I still like it as GPS and GPRS modem, and as mp3-player, though. I'm 
planning to fix it in my car as that...

I still think it's a great experiment on open-source development, and I 
don't mind having paid the money for it. Furthermore I get very 
impressed by the quality of simple Nokia or other phones ;)

Linus

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-31 Thread rixed
yes
yes
H:1


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-31 Thread Thomas Zimmermann
Am Dienstag 29 Dezember 2009 21:30:53 schrieb Risto H. Kurppa:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
No
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
No
 What distribution you run most of the time?
SHR unstable
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
Palm Pre (but never used FR as primary phone), i'm seeing the FR as my toy.

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-31 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/29 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Partly - i.e. reading my gmail with links2.  Other email is elsewhere,
and I don't do electronic calendaring or task tracking.

 What distribution you run most of the time?

Debian.

  Neil

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Mickael Labrousse


Risto H. Kurppa a écrit :
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
   
No
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
   
No, HTC G1
 What distribution you run most of the time?

   
In my job on FR : an old shr-testing
In my private life : recently switch to Hackable1:rev5 chuck (loving 
gnome :d)
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

   
Missing calls, Buzz issue (now fixed), EDGE/3G access, battery life and 
missing integrated hardware keyboard (loving my g1 :d)

 Thank you :)


   
You're welcome :)
 r

   

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2009/12/29 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes.

 What distribution you run most of the time?

Debian.

Quite happy nowadays to about everything except lack of 3G data and
well, also the GPRS hickups that need some care not to bump into when
using Neo's connection from a laptop. Replaced midori with woosh which
starts up very fast (compared to midori). It would need packaging,
though...

One more thing is that some day I should try my luck with navit +
speech again. I'm quite fine with TangoGPS for my needs, but navit
would make it a real navigator.

-Timo

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Am Dienstag, den 29.12.2009, 22:30 +0200 schrieb Risto H. Kurppa:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
yes
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
yes
 What distribution you run most of the time?
shr-t

bernhard


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread David Ford
1) not any more
2) no
3) gentoo
4) opkg nightmares, very slow development, instability of existing core
software and i have no time to work on it.  using a blackberry.  it just
works.

On 12/29/2009 03:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 What distribution you run most of the time?

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?


 Thank you :)


 r
   


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Christian Rüb
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

not yet

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

yes

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-U

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

Have not switched over to FR yet, but still using my 9y old Nokia as PIM is not 
sufficient on FR yet.

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread PaulTT
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
yes
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
yes

 What distribution you run most of the time?
om2008.12+fdom with qtopia and lot of changes and customizations ;)

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Joerg Eesmann
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 22:30 +0200, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-U, but will try QTMoko also

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

Sound during calling is still an issue for me. Addressee of my calls are
still complaining, even after buzz fix...

 Thank you :)

Thank You!


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi writes:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Still yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes.

 What distribution you run most of the time?

Debian unstable.

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

The largest issue currently is sound quality during call. I have
managed to get rid of buzz and echo but sometimes people complain that
they can't hear what I am saying and sometimes the sound is amplified
so much that it gets distorted. I have not been able to identify why
this behavior seems to change.

Current solution is just to make sure that the amplification is so low
that no distortion happens and then use a quick icewm menu entry to up
the volume if other side seems to suffer from the can't hear you very
loudly issue.

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Atilla Filiz
No and no. Primarily call quality was never satifying, mostly for the other
side. Echo is too annoying. Also phone is unreliable because of WSOD. I use
my FR as my hacking toy.My primary distro is H:1

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi
 wrote:

 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi writes:
  Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

 Still yes.

  Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 Yes.

  What distribution you run most of the time?

 Debian unstable.

  If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
  over to, and why?

 The largest issue currently is sound quality during call. I have
 managed to get rid of buzz and echo but sometimes people complain that
 they can't hear what I am saying and sometimes the sound is amplified
 so much that it gets distorted. I have not been able to identify why
 this behavior seems to change.

 Current solution is just to make sure that the amplification is so low
 that no distortion happens and then use a quick icewm menu entry to up
 the volume if other side seems to suffer from the can't hear you very
 loudly issue.

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Thomas Bellembois
1. not yet
2. not yet
3. QTMoko / H1

I currently use a basic Nokia Phone. I am waiting for a decent agenda 
synchronisation system to use the FR as a daily phone.

Regards,

Thomas


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread giacomo giotti mariani
yes
yes
qtmoko/shr

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Gennady Kupava
В Втр, 29/12/2009 в 22:30 +0200, Risto H. Kurppa пишет:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes. But in fact I've not use pda before, so not much from that
functionality.

Most used non-phone functions is music player. Sound quality is nice for
phone, happy with upload method - just scp/mc, and with playing software
supporting any music formats. Intone in shr have own bugs and sometimes
annoyingly slow due to mmc speed, but exactly I want from player.
Mplayer in debian-based distributions (moved only soon).

 What distribution you run most of the time?

80% time were SHR-Unstable, QTmoko for some time, but recently switched
to H:1 for phone software, first flashed to test it, but found it better
that recent shr on my taste.

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

n/a. Problems with FR are not strong enough to switch.

Gennady


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread arne anka
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

yes

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

yes

 What distribution you run most of the time?

debian

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread tb
Yes, although i wish it would be better with core phone services
Yes
SHR-unstable

2009/12/29 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 What distribution you run most of the time?

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?


 Thank you :)


 r

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 | risto at kurppa dot fi
 | http://risto.kurppa.fi

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Michele Abbrescia
Risto H. Kurppa ha scritto:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes.

 
 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-U.

 
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
 
 
 Thank you :)
 
 
 r
 

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread dieeasy
Il giorno Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:30:53 +0200
la Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi cusku di'e:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

not yet

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

yes

 What distribution you run most of the time?

debian / qtmoko

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

never switched from my previous phone because of in-call audio quality
PIM is getting better, I like osmo very much
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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Adam Jimerson

On Dec 30, 2009, at 1:08 AM, DRSp. wrote:

 Am 29.12.2009 21:30, schrieb Risto H. Kurppa:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes


 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-U latest


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Vadim, Efimov
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:30:53 +0300, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi  
wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
No

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
Yes

 What distribution you run most of the time?
SHR-U lastest

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
Missing some PIM (especially phonebook) functionality  integration  
(contact's sort order),
audio quality (volume level), battery,

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Vincent Meurisse
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 21:30:53 Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
Yes
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
Yes
 What distribution you run most of the time?
QtMoko

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 21:30:53 Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Nope, sold it to buy an N900.
I enjoyed the concept a lot, but I needed something that works.




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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Giovanni
Almost, I'm starting in these days.
Yes.
SHR-U


On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.frwrote:

 On Tuesday 29 December 2009 21:30:53 Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
  Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
  Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 Nope, sold it to buy an N900.
 I enjoyed the concept a lot, but I needed something that works.




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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi 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.


 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.

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.
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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 12/30/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi 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?

 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 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.
 --
 Regards,
 Torfinn Ingolfsen


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi writes:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
Still yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Define PDA. I use it uniquely for listening music with lyrics, and my
own developed dictionary.

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-U from september.

I learned the caveats. I use my modified paroli too. It has bugs,
problems, but I know almost all of them.
If it starts with cant init wifi service, I will not able to pick up
the incoming call for example.
The above bug I figured out in 2 months (why dont appear the incoming
call screen in paroli).

So there are bugs like this, but as I know all of them (never hang up
the same time as the other party, because paroli/fso just freezes), I
can workaround all of them.

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

I began seriously thinking to switching back to a normal phone. The
audio quality is unreliable and poor.


 The largest issue currently is sound quality during call. I have
 managed to get rid of buzz and echo but sometimes people complain that
 they can't hear what I am saying and sometimes the sound is amplified
 so much that it gets distorted. I have not been able to identify why
 this behavior seems to change.

My biggest issue too. It never really worked. I have awesome quality
with Motorola old Razor
phone (my gf has it), almost never have any issue (buzz, echo, etc)
and she is at the
same provider.

But for example with almost all Samsung phone, they can hardly understand me.
I have also problem with Nokia 6300, sometime my voice get chopped,
and the other party
too. So I hear from 1 sec only half sec, then nothing, another half
second, then nothing.
If I speak slooowly the other party can understand me. But I pretty
often need to guess what the
other party wanted to say.

Also I have problem with people who have different provider then me
(pannon vs. vodafone)

What is worst, it has a serious social impact. There are people, who
simply refuse to call me,
because, my phone is shitty.
When the above chopping occurs, the other party starts to be really
angry, and starts
talking faster and louder, which makes the effect even worse.

Talking to landline has no issue in general.

So in my humble opinion the audio (hardware+software) on the
freerunner is seriously fucked up,
and what is worse, the key people never admitted the fact.

I tried everything, I fighted with the issue more then 6 months now
for a feature which is supposed
to JUST WORKs. And I think my settings are the best possible what can be made.

As the audio quality depends on the other party's phone (motorola is
the best in general), and
also the other's provider too, I dont think it can be ever adjusted
from software...


I only kept using this phone, because of the dictionary and the music
listening with lyrics.
Thats the only reason. And thats why I cant switch to an other phone

I also hate the fact that I need to charge every day my freerunner. I
will look into #1024 fix,
just the situation is so frustrating.

I also miss times to times the incoming call, because Im unable to
hear the ringing...

Best regards,
 Laszlo

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Tony McKeehan
Not my primary phone, but I use it form time to time to surf the 
web/play games with Hackable:1 or QtMoko (only distros that connect to 
web). Not  huge fan of SHR, because the interface does not lend itself 
well to a phone (can't even create+type+send an SMS in less than a 
minute, much less 15-20 seconds like every other phone ever).

My daily phone is the same phone I've had for years, a Motorolla L2 bar 
phone.

-Tonym

Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 What distribution you run most of the time?

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?


 Thank you :)


 r

   


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 30 December 2009, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
 On 12/30/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi 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. 

  --
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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread David Wagner
jeremy jozwik a écrit :
 On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
 What distribution you run most of the time?

yes

no

hackable:1 , rev5

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Ian Stephen
Quoting Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 What distribution you run most of the time?

Yes
No
SHR

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
 What distribution you run most of the time?

yes
yes
and shr-u 20091205

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread Iain B. Findleton
Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
   
No
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

   
No
 What distribution you run most of the time?

   
SHR-U
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

   
Battery life, heat generation. Nokia basic model
 Thank you :)


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread Bastian Muck
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 On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi
 wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Do you use FR as your
 primary PDA? What distribution you run most of the time?

 yes
+1
 yes
+1
 and shr-u 20091205
latest

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RE: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread hab keen oh ne
yes, its my only phone
yes, its my only PDA
shr-u





Von: Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi
An: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org; 
shr-u...@lists.shr-project.org
Gesendet: Dienstag, den 29. Dezember 2009, 21:30:53 Uhr
Betreff: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

What distribution you run most of the time?

If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
over to, and why?


Thank you :)


r

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread D. Gassen

Risto H. Kurppa wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
YES!

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
YES!

 What distribution you run most of the time?
SHR-U Current (I have a working SHR on NAND that I don't update and whenever 
the update breaks the one on the SD I can switch to NAND until the on the SD 
card works again).

 
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
Switch? No way!

Dirk ;-)
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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread Benjamin Neuman
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

yes

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

no


 What distribution you run most of the time?

shr testing


 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?


 Thank you :)


 r

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/12/29 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?


No


 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?


Yes



 What distribution you run most of the time?


Shr



 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?


Switched back to my old motorola. I kept missing calls and messages
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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread Thomas HOCEDEZ
Le 29/12/2009 21:34, jeremy jozwik a écrit :
 On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppari...@kurppa.fi  wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
 What distribution you run most of the time?
  
yes
yes
SHRu / H:1

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread ghislain

Yes
Yes
QtMoko

Regards,
Ghislain van der Steen
openmobile.nl
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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread Bas
On 12/29/2009 09:34 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
No (was hoping to be able to use it by now, but my contract expired so I
ordered a new phone)

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
No

 What distribution you run most of the time?
SHR-U


Personal note: I am kind of disappointed with the slow progress of the
software (just an observation, not judging it  :)  )

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson
Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
No.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
No.

 
 What distribution you run most of the time?
[SHR-U] - cd shr-unstable; make image, ...

 
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
 
 
 Thank you :)
 
 
 r
 


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread c_c

Hi,

Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
Yes.

Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
Yes.

What distribution you run most of the time?
SHR-U


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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread Denis Johnson
yes
yes
shr-t latest

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 What distribution you run most of the time?

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread DRSp.
Am 29.12.2009 21:30, schrieb Risto H. Kurppa:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 What distribution you run most of the time?

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?


 Thank you :)


 r


1) yes
2) yes
shr-u

have a happy new year

DRSp.

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día martes, diciembre 29, 2009 a las 10:30:53 +0200, Risto H. Kurppa 
escribió:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

No, but as my daily/only phone;

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

No, my primary PDA is a netbook EeePC 900 with FreeBSD;

 
 What distribution you run most of the time?

Om2008.9

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

n/a

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