I've found the gps quite nice, it takes some work to get it working. It is doable.
I would hold off selling it until Koolu releases their android port. Their beta is already almost on par with 2008.12. I think if they resolved the calypso issue and improved audio quality, the Freerunner would be a viable phone. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Craig Woodward <[email protected]> wrote: > ---- Ian Darwin <[email protected]> wrote: > You accuse me of mincing words. Let's see if you'll stand by your words. > If you really feel the device is that worthless, sell it to me for $10.00. > Final offer. > ============= > > Ok: > A> Learn to crop your replies... > B> My point wasn't to LOSE more money by selling to you for $10. My point in > selling now is to try to not get screwed a second time when OM drops support > for it, like they did for the GTA01 last month. > C> If you think it's such a great "phone", why not buy it from me for full > price? Clearly if it's so great, you'll have no problem re-selling it. > Didn't think so... > > I didn't buy this phone as a gadget to work on for months that MIGHT > eventually make a nice GPS. For half the price I could have gotten a real > open source kit and the parts to put together something like this, minus GSM. > Something with a REAL SDK, fully open and STABLE source, and support from > the company that sold it to me. > > I bought this to use as a phone that I could get into, add to, and modify if > I wanted to. That's how FIC marketed it, as a consumer ready device, open > source, with MAYBE a small power issue in that it wasn't supporting stand by > mode. OM wasn't it's own entity, or if it was that wasn't made clear. > > Now FIC has shifted ALL responsibility off to OM. OM says they're not > focused on the GTA02, but are marketing to "future phones", like the GTA03. > They've also completely dropped support for the GTA01. And core > functionality on ALL Neos, like making and receiving calls and SMS, is still > unreliable. > > The FreeRunner wasn't marketed as a prototype device. It was marketed as > consumer ready, and it's not there, and doesn't appear to be getting there > any time soon, if at all. Saying OM never said the software was ready > doesn't change how it was marketed, or the fact that OM was initially formed > and funded by FIC to develop software for it's phone. > > I'm just pissed off that I spent $400 on a device that was supposed to be my > next phone, and 8 months later it's still sitting in a box because it's not > usable as a normal daily phone. And it doesn't help that people keep saying > the FreeRunner was marketed as a development platform, when it clearly wasn't. > > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support > -- Paul Email - [email protected] There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
