Personally I'd be happier with a design that has no known/"already fixed in the next revision" current leaks.
I'm seriously considering buying Freerunner to get a truly open Linux -based phone. I don't think I'd have problems with the software, having pretty firm background in programming and Linux, but I doubt I'd go for soldering things. Thus I may be postponing my buying. I thought it would be cool to have the phone among the firsts - the half ready software wouldn't matter, I could just try to familiarize myself with the phone, making it feel like home by writing my own applications. However, now I got to think whether the more ready hardware would be worth the wait. On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Frans Grotepass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 19 April 2008, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: > > Andrea Debortoli wrote: > > > I think nobody will buy a GTA02v5 knowing that a better revision will be > > > available some days after... > > > > I will too, but only because I can't wait longer :( > > I'm not so happy about this decision, btw... > > I say "ship it!" if FIC was a closed source product, no-one would've > known. Thank goodness the guys are communicating with us. If the fix is > a simple transistor replacement, the mentioned alternative of adding the > transistor to the v5 package for after marktet replacement is a groovy > idea. Many of the guys keen on this phone will not hesitate one second > to solder a new component. The ones that don't trust they can solder SMD > know who they are by now. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community