Thanks Sven, Sorry I was not there on Monday when you visited the office. I left TPE the previous friday. Glad to hear you love you FR, keep up the good work and best of luck on your project.
Sven Klomp wrote: > As you already noticed from my last mail (Visit at Openmoko), I was traveling > through Taiwan. I didn't want to blame anyone, but share my feelings with > people that are also thrilled by this project. Nevertheless as several people > already mentioned, we have an open phone! and there is a future! > > I use my Freerunner for several weeks as my daily phone now (started after > the buzz was fixed by Daniel, thanks). However, the last two weeks I > stretched my FR to the limit and it did it well: > Few days before I started traveling Taiwan, I decided to make some GPS based > diary for my friends at home. Thanks to the very easy API of FSO, I was able > to write a basic application in Python within three evenings. The > applications sends the current coordinates and some text to my server, where > a KML file is created which can be downloaded by my friends. At the airport, > I bought a cheap Taiwan SIM card and I started to transmit my position via > GPRS (which also worked out-of-the-box). Furthermore, the timezone changed > automagically based on GSM (my old Sony Ericsson wasn't able to do so). > > I had a lot of fun during the last weeks tracking my travel. Of course, I had > some problems but I could solve all of them more or less. E.g. the SHR alarm > application doesn't worked. So I did the alarm the bash way: sleep 28800 && > aplay alarm.wav :-) With this solution, the phone couldn't suspend. Luckily, > the wall charger has Taiwan connections below the European adaptor :-) > Furthermore, I was that adventurous to make an opkg upgrade during the travel > :-) Thereafter, I couldn't suspend after I started GPRS. Annoying, but not a > serious problem. > > I love my FR > Sven > > P.S.: Now I start to fill some bug reports :-) > > _______________________________________________ > 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
