Re: Article: What happened to real open source phones?

2011-04-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, April 21, 2011 a las 10:10:37AM +, Niels Heyvaert escribió: Hi all, To those of you who didn't see summary flying by on Linuxtoday.com, there is recent article published about the Openmoko:

Re: Article: What happened to real open source phones?

2011-04-22 Thread Toby D. Young
Greetings, I'm still using my FR as my daily and only cellphone (it still runs Om2008.9) and I'm happy with it, [...]. I am glad to see someone saying that :-) I am also using my freerunner (with QtMoko) as my only phone and I am also very happy with it. Of course, I also find a few

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2011-04-22 Thread giacomo 'giotti' mariani
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Re: Article: What happened to real open source phones?

2011-04-22 Thread Radek Polak
On Friday 22 April 2011 09:56:07 Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm still using my FR as my daily and only cellphone (it still runs Om2008.9) and I'm happy with it, even if the battery is poor and lasts only 6-8 hours. But I don't care because I nearly always have my laptop or some external batteries

Re: Article: What happened to real open source phones?

2011-04-22 Thread giacomo 'giotti' mariani
I have been measuring battery life with 2.6.37 kernel under QtMoko and after 5 days without recharging the battery was low but it still worked. So it looks like freerunner is maybe one of the best smarphones as for battery life, Regards Radek WOW When will it be available for us?

Re: Article: What happened to real open source phones?

2011-04-22 Thread Philip Rhoades
Radek, On 2011-04-22 18:56, Radek Polak wrote: On Friday 22 April 2011 09:56:07 Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm still using my FR as my daily and only cellphone (it still runs Om2008.9) and I'm happy with it, even if the battery is poor and lasts only 6-8 hours. But I don't care because I nearly

Re: Article: What happened to real open source phones?

2011-04-22 Thread pike
Hi I have been measuring battery life with 2.6.37 kernel under QtMoko and after 5 days without recharging the battery was low but it still worked. So it looks like freerunner is maybe one of the best smarphones as for battery life, Just for the record, I find that remarkable. I'm running

Re: Article: What happened to real open source phones?

2011-04-22 Thread Radek Polak
On Friday 22 April 2011 11:04:29 giacomo 'giotti' mariani wrote: I have been measuring battery life with 2.6.37 kernel under QtMoko and after 5 days without recharging the battery was low but it still worked. So it looks like freerunner is maybe one of the best smarphones as for battery

Re: Article: What happened to real open source phones?

2011-04-22 Thread Philip Rhoades
Radek, On 2011-04-23 00:40, Radek Polak wrote: On Friday 22 April 2011 11:04:29 giacomo 'giotti' mariani wrote: I have been measuring battery life with 2.6.37 kernel under QtMoko and after 5 days without recharging the battery was low but it still worked. So it looks like freerunner is maybe

Re: ROS on Freerunner

2011-04-22 Thread j...@rejon.org
great guys, please put your documentation of trying this onto the wiki. Jon On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Jan Tuennermann tuennerm...@get.uni-paderborn.de wrote: I think ROS would not be a benefit for the OpenMoko as a phone, it makes it very attractive for application in robotics or other

Re: Article: What happened to real open source phones?

2011-04-22 Thread radek polak
Since: linux-image-2.6.37-qtmoko-gta02_v34-1_armel.deb is v34, should: uImage.bin-2.6.37-qtmoko be installed along with: qi-v34.udfu and: qtmoko-debian-v34.ubi ? (I currently have the v35 stuff installed). You can use it also with v35. Regards Radek