On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Joerg Lippmann<jl_li...@donalbain.de> wrote: > Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 schrieb Nicola Mfb: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Ivan Shirokov<ivanshirok...@gmail.com> >> wrote: [...] >> >> >> 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... >> > >> > That's really sad =( >> >> AFAIK there is still some space for improvement in general responsiveness. >> Actually there is a busy loop eating CPU to wait for graphical >> operations to complete. >> There are working in progress to avoid that. When the fix will be >> ready *and* adopting a good design pattern for applications (e.g. >> GUI/logic multithreading split, fusion of frequently used phone tasks >> in monolitic one-shot load and forget applications) we may see an >> acceptable speedy freerunner. > > When will that be? When the device is completely obsolete? > > Sorry, but after a year of waiting I still have an expensive brick that I can > neither use as a proper phone (speaker still WAY to low, too unstable, too > slow, too battery-hungry) nor as a PDA (no usable software available). So I > really regret my decision to buy it. But then again, it was touted as a real > phone for end-users back then and being a happy Linux-User for 14 years, I > thought that I could live with some minor flaws... > > I'm really for the idea of freeing the phone (thats why I bought one), free > hardware and the community. And I really loved to see this effort to succeed. > But I came to realize that I start to hate this sluggish, instable device > without good software. I cannot help it. I haven't found a single distro that > works well out of the box. The best ones so far were QTopia/QTe and Android. > And neither are really community efforts. So I consider my personal experiment > (buying a community-driven phone for 300 EUR) as failed. Sorry. > -- > j�...@home > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
for you, thats a shame. works fine for me. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community