On 7/13/09, mobi phil <m...@mobiphil.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> That depends on your sense of humour ;-) >> >> > Well, I would say it was a very bad joke. I spent eq. of 400 dolars, I was > waiting 1 year for glamo acceleration etc, etc. that would make the phone > usable etc, and it turns out, that it will never be. With the slow bus, one > can forget about acceleration... What can be accelerated if you have to send > information about complex bitmaps... > > I find openmoko, better say freedesktop as a nice project, and even openmoko > name should be avoided. They found a very cheap solution, they sold the > devices for lot of money, practically they fooled lot of people. I can > imagine the company manager behind smiling about all the complain emails and > naive users still hoping their freerunner will display nicely one day. I > think after this being known, one should be crazy buying the openmoko. One > should instead maybe encourage the gnufiish project (or others) to port the > kernel, and use those phones as reference. One would at least avoid tons of > emails about slow graphics, about why X window etc. Again, M800 has > keyboard, very usefull for a linux phone. Only drawback, it has only 64megs > memory, but better have less applications running smoother, than several > slower... So ... whatsoever would be the device... forget about plan B, > forget about openmoko for ever... Concentrate on linux for mobile device and > encourage hackers to write drivers for them, eventually paying them per > paypal etc.
Then i'm crazy - I have known about that (slow glamo) before FreeRunner was in sales, and it was discussed on maillist before that. And after that. And I think there still will be discusions about that... Slow graphics performance doesn't make my FreeRunner useless. It's still the most functional device I've ever had, and I love programming on it when I don't have access to PC :P PS. If you didn't read *a lot* about FR, its adventages, disadventages, abilities and problems, then you shouldn't buy it. That's my opinion for year :P _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community