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Michael Smith

Wed Jun 11 19:46:36 -0700 2008

Months ago they indicated that the first release of the GTA02 would be targeted at developers so that bugs could be worked out, and like the GTA01 release it would not be able to  be used as a reliable phone. But I didn't see any mention of this on openmoko.org

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juri_

Thu Jun 12 01:32:21 -0700 2008

Once you discover the little spots where the device still needs work (6 hour battery life without sleep mode, sometimes 8-9 reboots to get associated to the gsm network, etc), the GTA01 has been functioning as my cellphone for two months now.

its not reliable (went to dallas, and it was a brick, due to channel differences?), but compared to my old cellphone, it was passable.

i think the term "reliable" needs some definition here. :)

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Michael Smith

Thu Jun 12 02:04:11 -0700 2008

Have they not been releasing updates?

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juri_

Thu Jun 12 16:31:07 -0700 2008

To be blunt, "kindof".

Their development method is cathedral-only, no bazarr to speak of.

Its comon to find people in the irc channel cursing "taiwan", because they d ump software on the community, instead of participating with it.

I update my unit weekly. very few applications are updated, and they're adding bugs faster than they're removing them. instead, they decided to completely swap out the UI, instead of making their current UI fully functional.

I'm very disapointed. but then again, its open source, if i had time to do something *other* than work on my 25,000 line kernel patches (no, not kidding), i could fix it. that makes it at least partially my fault.

 

I'm just glad to carry one less proprietary OS on my person, on a day-to-day basis. now, i need to switch digital cameras... (aparently, samsung built some linux cameras..)