Hi, Like many people in this community I have my Neo resting comfortably in my desk because there isn't a stable OS with the basic phone funcionalities available at the moment (I already tried all the distributions available). Some distributions provide some of the basic stuff, but they're not reliable in many ways.
Today I read a message from Wolfgang Spraul in the thread about the end of the Optimization Team that got me worried "The way things are going right now, we will probably have this release mid-next year.". Well, I think this is very bad. Electronic equipment, like phones/computers, become outdated in a very short period of time (GTA03 is already being created). By the mid-next year Neo will be pretty much an old phone and nobody really used it, yet. I think Android is the best candidate to turn the Neo into a daily usable phone right away. It has all the basic (and not so basic) applications, it has a good usability, good looks and the number of users/applications will grow very rapidly in the next months, I think. The current state of the Android port for Neo is already very encoraging and with a little effort from the community (and Openmoko people) Android could be fully functional in the Freerunner in a couple of weeks. Sean McNeil has been doing a great work, but as I see it, he is basically the only one working on the low level problems. My personal experience is more at the application level (Java), but with a little guidance I'm willing to help in any way. What I would like to see is some sort of list of things to do and how could the people from the community help doing them. I don't have much experience with open-souce projects, maybe I'm the only one that doesn't know how to help. If this is the case, please forgive this message :) Best regards, Rui _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
