Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

Ortwin Regel ortwin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 26 01:25:24 CET 2007


I'll risk it anyway... Guess it'll be a rough ride, then, but I'm up
for that. Can't wait another six months for the phone of my dreams. :P

On 1/26/07, Marcel de Jong <mdejong at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/26/07, Joe Pfeiffer <jjpfeifferjr at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Marcel de Jong writes:
> > >On 1/26/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at openmoko.org> wrote:
> > >> Marcel de Jong wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > I was wondering. I'm not a developer, at least not by profession; I do
> > >> > have a degree in it but my coding skills are very rusty, I'm a
> > >> > software tester (TMAP, but not yet certified).
> > >>
> > >> > So I'm not really a developer, but  I'd still like to get me a phone
> > >> > in March. (can't wait till November or what was it again) :)
> > >>
> > >> > Will the developers phone be ready for usage for non-developers too?
> > >>
> > >> Absolutely not, sorry. This is really "release early and often". It
> > >> will definitely be too rough for non-developers -- that's why we are
> > >> targetting September for mass market.
> > >
> > >But the software needs to be tested, right? You can't exactly expect
> > >the public to be your beta testers. (though in this 'web2.0'-age that
> > >seems to be the general approach)
> >
> > Those of us drooling for one of the early phones, knowing what we're
> > letting ourselves in for, are the beta testers...
> >
>
> Heh, you've got a point there. I know I'm drooling for one of those.
> And if we can somehow backup the phone to do some testing, that'd
> would be great.
>
> ---
> Marcel de Jong
>
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