Agreed. I feel exactly the same way. I have said it before and I will say it again, the best part of being a "COMMunity" is COMMunication. In the first few months of development there was a great deal of communication, but it seems to have dwindled which makes me nervous to be honest.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathon Suggs</b> <<a href="mailto:jsuggs@murmp.com">jsuggs@murmp.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well since this was supposed to be available back in March, there was no<br>immediate need. Now the pressure (for me) is starting to build. So it<br>is more of a question of I've been waiting for ~3 months now and there
<br>is still no idea of when it is going to actually become available.<br><br>Yes, I could go out and buy a cheap phone today. But then the Neo could<br>be out tomorrow and I would have wasted my money. But its not even a
<br>money issue for me. Its a lack of communication issue. The original<br>date was March. Sean clearly explained why they had to push back the<br>date, but only said that new devices would be out "soon." Then there
<br>was another production run and we all thought that THAT was going to be<br>when they were available...but there were issues and we got bumped back<br>to "soon" again. LCD shortages, bad production runs, whats next? Are
<br>they are going to scrap the GTA-01's in favor of ramping up production<br>lines for the GTA-02 (since that will possibly be the mass-market<br>hardware) but at a few months delay?<br><br>So while I'm complaining, I'm also appreciative of the information that
<br>has been passed down to us. However, that doesn't erase the fact that<br>they set a date and missed it only to be followed up with a "soon"<br>response. It would be different if they had just said that it would be
<br>available in 2007, but to set an exact date then not come through? Then<br>not even give a follow up date...it just seems a little "off" to me.<br><br>So I know that I'm sounding really down on Sean and the bunch and that
<br>isn't my sentiment. I'm excited about what the platform has the<br>potential to do. But its just deflating to see it "failing" at such an<br>early point in the development cycle...I guess my optimism can only last
<br>so long. I guess what I'm getting at is if they can't get something out<br>the door now (when it is arguably the most important time for the<br>platform) then what is the future going to be like? I'm going to have
<br>to see some MAJOR progress to get my hopes back up to where they were<br>when I first heard about and started following the project.<br><br>Luit van Drongelen wrote:<br>> Well, if you can't live without a mobile phone until the Neo with WiFi
<br>> comes available, why not buy a temporary 25 buck phone? That's what<br>> I'm doing now...<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko community mailing list<br><a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">
community@lists.openmoko.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community">http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community</a><br></blockquote></div><br>