which applications are usable

Kevin Dean kevin at foreverdean.info
Thu Apr 17 23:42:59 CEST 2008


On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Flyin_bbb8 <flyin.bbb8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Marcus can you please inform me of how long the battery lasts on your neo
> 1973? on average ...

Not Marcus but I have an answer. :) Using the "Dim first, don't lock"
mode which dims the screen after a few seconds and then turns off the
backlight, it's about 5 hours on standby. Less than that if you're
actually using the device.


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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Marcus Bauer <marcus.bauer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:41 +0200, Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
> >
> > > with the Freerunner approaching I wonder which applications are
> currently
> > > in a usable status? Apparently, Steve's managed to make a phone call.
> > > What about SMS or addressbook? Is there a list somewhere? or does the
> current
> > > qemu download give an impression (its so slow its not really useful)
> >
> > Adding to what Kevin said I can say that GPS work very well too. I hae
> > been playing a bit with the software stack and being a great fan of
> > openstreetmap I developed a little mapping software using these maps.
> >
> > If you want to check it out, there are packages for your desktop too,
> > i.e. for Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Fedora and eeePC.
> >
> > The homepage is http://www.tangogps.org/
> >
> > And I fully agree with Kevin that the Openmoko team has done a good job
> > in bringing a usable set of apps to us: I use my neo 1973 without major
> > probs on a daily basis. Actually I love the web browser links in
> > graphical mode. Beats everything out there ;-)
> >
> > Marcus
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