how is it network support and price wise though? i dont think the networks in the UK support it. And £200 plus i doubt if anyone wants to buy it specially if free-er versions that do the same thing are available!
On 05/08/2008, Tim Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James Tait wrote: > > Tim Dobson wrote: > >> I have a freerunner which I bought from www.truebox.co.uk > > > > So what are your impressions? I certainly take Popey's point about a > > phone that "works and works well", but just how much work/grief can one > > expect with the Freerunner? The two biggest drawbacks for me are the > > lack of a built-in camera and the massive start-up time, though I have > > to admit I don't expect to have to cold boot it that often. I've read > > numerous reviews, tech articles and so on and I'm still not really sure > > how close to "end-user ready" it is -- I've read some somewhat worrying > > stuff. > > I quite like it. > It's an awesome piece of kit. > The hardware is really god in my opinion though I take your point in > reference to camera. > The startup time shouldn't affect you really. > > It depends what you are wanting to use it for... > > if you want to use it as a phone(!) everything works fine. Rumours about > stuff crashing on incoming calls etc seem to be a thing of the past, no > more command line calls(!), the gui works fine and seems stable. > > Regarding SMS they are easy to send recieve.. no stability problems etc. > Contacts and are automatically imported from your SIM if you have them > there and more contacts can be imported in vcard format. > > I was extremely surprised at how polished the GPS stuff was > Tango gps - http://www.tangogps.org is an awesome program a *bit* like > the google maps bit of the iphone (i think). > Anyway it does stuff like overlays your position on maps and allows you > to record your track and stuff. > > The wifi stack is stable and functional, currently two beta GUIs exist > for it, but development is so fast that 5 days ago, neither existed in > their current form. By the time anything has been shipped to you, you > will be wondering why i am mentioning anything there. > > GPRS is a bit ugly at the moment (functional but impractical) but I'm > going to investigate that in more detail in the next few days with a > view to making it awesome. > > There are 2 webrowsers, (the minifirefox one is best imho) an image > gallery and file manager, pidgin IM client, and a media player. > > I would really recommend it, in places it is rough around the edges, but > i can not give comparison at the speed development is going - if you > think how the gnu/linux desktop changes in a year then you will probably > be able to imagine how much the gnu/linux phone changes in a month... > > I intend to get round to in depth blog post at some point. I'll remember > drop a link to here when i do. > > Tim > > > -- > www.tdobson.net > ---- > If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us > still has one object. > If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now > has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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