Re: [Hampshire] Openmoko (was USB Bluetooth adapter)

2008/9/30 Jon Levell <hantslug@???>:
> Victor Churchill wrote:
>
> [Openmoko FreeRunner]
>>> That looks fantastic. I'd love to have a play - are they around in the UK?
>
> I have one (I've been meaning to appear at my first HantsLUG meeting
> for sometime - I've been lurking on this list for ages) and I know
> that Hugo owns one too.
>
>> familiarity. The wiki reminded me of early Zaurus days, where anything
>> is possible but very very fiddly.... I'd love someone to persuade me
>> I'm being too pessimistic ;-)
>
> I don't think that you're being too pessimistic - the software is
> improving and there are lots of different distributions for it now.
>
> On balance I think it's less suitable as a phone than my ancient Nokia:
> battery life issues and fiddly surfing the web via GPRS but phone calls
> work and text messages work though it can be fiddly to type them.
>
> Jon.

Thanks Jon,

Welcome to the list.

Do you think the battery life is going to be sorted in software or is
it really a hardware issue? And is the GPS any use (e.g. is there any
route planning software available?)

Peter