Please forgive my tardiness in getting this review out. Friday saw some excellent things happen and most of today I spent under my car.
The "good" news is that this is still a review of the latest official snapshot at this time, so I didn't miss "much". The full review can be found at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Snapshot_review/2008-01-31 Boot time in this snapshot is down from the previous image and the overall system seems snappy again. SMS works well in both directions but delivery notifications do nothing (that I can tell). I found a typo in openmoko-panel-bluetooth and raised a bug as well as a patch (it was just a typo correction. :) ) I raised a bug in Neod - it displays an option to turn off or turn on Bluetooth but this doesn't actually do it. I found that one game that's included, Solo, can't be played because there is no longer a panel applet to pull up the keyboard. It's possible there are other issues in Games I've just not found them yet. A bug was raised. I've changed the way I rate "Incoming Call Quality". My previous reviews listed them as "Bad" because of the microphone picking up all ambient noise. I realized, however, that this is a local issue and this noise isn't transmitted across the line. So despite the crappy sound on OUR side, callers still hear clear voice. I figured it would be best to make this distinction and I decided to do it there. My recommendation is that users update to this image. For all my testing over the past day and a half I had minor issues overall. -Kevin Dean
