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- raynevandunem, on 07/19/2008, -1/+7Pt. 2, with the alternative Qtopia GUI front-end (Qt, same toolkit as KDE) for FreeRunner: http://www.vimeo.com/1366923
The posted title video uses a GTK+ GUI front-end for the same device. - trmanco, on 07/19/2008, -3/+7Just give it time, most of the open source projects start like this and then after some time they just get good, fast and more usable. It will probably take a couple of years to catch up with the iPhone OS and all those other proprietary OS's.
- Aeuta, on 07/20/2008, -1/+5I am a big fan of Open Source...but frankly that is pretty dam horrible. Hopefully future versions of the software will improve. The hardware is pretty much the biggest disaster that has happened...I really do feel for the people who did buy it. On the other hand Open Moko is a pretty small company and this has always been targeted for a niche market. Now hopefully since they do have some money their next device will be (much much much) better. If it is not well I am sad to say they probably will not survive in the market place and do deserve not to survive in the market..other open source products like Linux have earned the their place because of quality (and being free as in beer) in addition to free as in speech.
I dugg up this story because it points out a failure that should not be repeated. - xtraa, on 07/20/2008, -1/+4Fail.
Also they censored it. - cgomez, on 07/20/2008, -1/+4Only some open-source clunker can make me actually like Palm OS 5. Congrats.
- derrickgossman, on 07/20/2008, -3/+5Where are the douchebags that were touting this thing as an iPhone killer?
- inactive, on 07/20/2008, -1/+3Someone took off the videos. Nice thing going OpenMoko.
- BurgerPunch, on 07/19/2008, -1/+3Just as *****
- profitimo1, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2There are always issues with any 1st gen model. But to say its an iPhone-killer? Hmm...
Sprint's Instinct IMO is better than this. But personally, I'm still sticking with Treo. - inactive, on 07/20/2008, -1/+3Ubuntu never was 1.0, it was 4.10 or something like that.
- estvir, on 07/20/2008, -1/+2Why the hell did they even relase it now than since it's apparently in such an appaling state.. and for that price too, madness.
- safetysealed, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Hiding and crying, most probably.
I'm a huge fan of open source, but there was no way a small time company was gonna kick apples ass with their first product out the door, that was just crazy talk. However, im gonna keep my eyes open and see where this goes in future as it does have potential. - milkmage, on 07/19/2008, -3/+4400 bucks for that? I can see people in line....
waiting to return it. - estvir, on 07/20/2008, -1/+2I wonder who this niche market is that would spend $399 on such a poor product.
- ekso, on 07/20/2008, -1/+1You surelly have not tried Windows Mobile, right?
- AhronZombi, on 07/19/2008, -4/+4i feel ya. but its OSS. its all about working together to make it good. ubuntu 1.0 sucked too. at least its open. i have a feeling just because it is open development will surpass the iphone in a year or so, or else everyone will use android
- TheSilentNumber, on 07/20/2008, -2/+1That's exactly right. OpenMoko is still a baby. The website even says, "The software available on the phone makes it suitable for power users and developers only, it is not ready for the general consumer yet."
- http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner
This is an open source project. Sure, the first release was hyped up a bit, but i think it's understandable. It will get better. - sandaruwang, on 07/20/2008, -2/+1once the people start hacking it, the software problems will go away quickly. however, it seems like the scrolling/clicking problems are due to hardware limitations(pressure sensors). it'll take some time.
- BurgerPunch, on 07/19/2008, -5/+3"i have a feeling just because it is open development will surpass the iphone in a year or so"
You must be ***** delirious, LOOK AT THAT THING, the scrolling barely works.
If they can't even get that right how are they going to manage anything else.
If Apple is proof of anything it is proof that talented enclosed teams beat open monkeys at typewriters
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