I'm just venting steam. I'm not entirely unhappy with the phone: just a little frustrated, since I'm having a hard time justifying the purchase with my wife... not to mention my iPhone-loving friends.
There were a number of sites, like Engadget and a few others, that were essentially implying that the Freerunner was ready for general use (as opposed to the Neo1973, which was strictly a developer's phone). So, I enthusiastically ordered it, only to realize that it's still, very much, a developer's phone. And not just a developer's phone, but a *super hardcore* developer's phone. I wouldn't mind learning to program for it, but even that's hard to do, since there are a handful of competing openmoko software architectures that aren't really interoperable. Anyway, I guess I'll wait for the software to catch up to the hardware. Meanwhile, I'll keep it tucked away in the closet. Dimitri Steven Kurylo wrote: > >> I feel mislead by their marketing, which led me (and, from what I've been >> reading, many others) to think that the phone was actually ready for both >> developers AND regular folks. This, of course, is false, as it can't even >> connect to the internet *out of the box*, and requires a ridiculous >> degree >> of programming knowledge to even do so. (As a Java programmer with 10 >> years' >> experience, I've finally given up trying.) > > I haven't seen anyone say the phone would be ready for regular user. > I tell people don't even expect to make reliable phone calls. > > Though I think they should have put a big warning page during the > purchasing process before it takes your credit card, so no one would > have an excuse to complain. > > Sorry that its not for you yet. > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Third-request%3A-what-*is*-the-warranty-on-the-Freerunner--tp668835p669126.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community