This reminds me of the situation with linux a few years back. When I was trying it out on my desktop for the first time, it would take me days to configure x-window drivers, sound card, etc, and have a working winmodem was next to impossible. After I managed to do it, I ran around telling people how much better it was than Winshit. See the difference in approach?
Openmoko is taking the same steps as Linux some years ago, just on a smaller scale. When we finally get stable software, you're gonna see how many possibilities it gives. You can easily see it even now. By the way, Google has something like a 100 engineers working on Android, and still many people say it's a failure. Maybe it means that making a phone isn't so easy? 2009/7/14 Joerg Lippmann <jl_li...@donalbain.de> > > 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 > >
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