Soo. I got mine. First impressions were sent to the community list (see http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-July/008525.html ), then I remembered this list. Probably the place to continue experience-gathering. And mickeyl asked me to "blog" about the BT keyboard thing, but having no active blog, I figured this is the next best thing ;)
So yeah, I bought a prepaid SIM to continue fiddling with the Neo while having my usual one in my old phone. Seemed to have some problems getting it to work from a clean slate, though that may've been just some of the random glitches the Moko's had. I "initialized" the SIM using my usual phone, got the first "Welcome to our service" messages and setting SMSs. Then I put the SIM into the Neo again, and managed to make a call. I don't currently have a working mixer state for handset use (the mic doesn't seem to be enabled in the wiki-linked state, and as said in my previous mail, the flash image handset state made a sound loop between the mic and the stereo speakers), but the headset mixer state allowed me to make a call with audio going both ways. gsmd doesn't seem too stable at this point, but that's par for this course, one supposes. So both my usual Saunalahti SIM and the prepaid DNA SIM (these are Finnish operators) seem to get the phone hooked up. The SIM problems some seem to be having are certainly not pervasive and do not apply to all common-use SIMs. I also now tried a bit of the Bluetooth fun; as the flash image nicely provides hidd, I charged aheard and powered up the BT module as instructed at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Support , scanned my (Freedom Mini) keyboard with hcitool scan, and hooked up with hidd --connect [address]. Lo, I could type with it at least in the terminal and the message creation dialog. Some apps would not take keyboard input, such as the dialer and the calculator; this is not really important, of course, as they're designed to be used with the touchscreen, but putting in appropriate keybindings for the buttons would perhaps add a tad more flexibility for some use cases without real downsides (ok, so maybe a bit or two of memory consumption :). I know people have more important things to do though; maybe I'll patch things like that myself if I find myself in a mood to do something but too braindead to do anything much ;) There's no PIN stuff with the keyboard (as is the case when used with my desktop as well), and I don't know how secure the connection is (one could hope that it's secure _if_ connection setup hasn't been eavesdropped, but I really don't know even that; I'm no BT expert). Perhaps better input passwords with the on-screen keyboard. And of course if one is sshing out of the phone, to use ssh public key auth so you don't need to type in passwords, at least ones that are useful without the key. Tried to unmount the (automatically mounted) microsd to mke3fs it instead of the default VFAT. However, umount just goes "Inappropriate ioctl for device". Of course, one _can_ use VFAT even for software and stuff so changing the format isn't really mandatory but... ;) Oh yeah, this is using the following kernel and root images: uImage-2.6.21.6-moko10-r1_0_0_2388_0-fic-gta01.bin openmoko-devel-image-fic-gta01-20070728081358.rootfs.jffs2 Cheers -- Mikko Rauhala - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - <URL:http://www.iki.fi/mjr/> Transhumanist - WTA member - <URL:http://www.transhumanism.org/> Singularitarian - SIAI supporter - <URL:http://www.singinst.org/>
