Sebastian,<br><br>I am well aware that we are MANY months away from Freerunner<br>being appropriate choice for an average "just a user."<br><br>But Steve has talked about "mass production" (starting soon...)<br>
which I'd assume implies OpenMoko building a few thousands of Freerunners.<br><br>I am not asking about the relatively few "early experience" Freerunners that<br>Steve and Michael have evidently seeded out to a few trusted folks.<br>
<br>I may be misguided, but the quality of ASU load does not sound like <br>it's ready to flow out to a few thousand developers, <br>never mind how eager they are.<br><br>My guess: OpenMoko is gathering feedback from the n=100 (???) early <br>
experience Freerunner units, then they knocks down the nastiest bugs, <br>and THEN and only then open the spigot at the factory.<br><br>If it was me, I would only have built a few hundred so far, but they may <br>well have bigger balls than I do. ;)<br>
<br>-rj<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br><br><br>From: Sebastian Reichel <<a href="mailto:elektranox@gmail.com">elektranox@gmail.com</a>><br>To: List for Openmoko community discussion <<a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</a>><br>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 22:26:53 +0200<br>Subject: Re: software load for first mfg run of Freerunner? Is ASU what ships?<br><br>hi,<br>
<br>
it was said some days ago in the mailing list, that ASU is not the<br>
software which is shipped with the phone. But the first Freerunners,<br>
which are shipped are still not for the average user - they are for<br>
developers, which are able to update their phones.<br>
<br>
Am Sonntag, den 25.05.2008, 12:35 -0700 schrieb Ron K. Jeffries:<br>
> I am NOT asking if mass production has started.<br>
><br>
> I am asking if OpenMoko has frozen a release to<br>
> load into the microSD cards. It seems to me that the unit can come off<br>
> the line, and that one of the final steps before packing would be to<br>
> load the<br>
> software.<br>
><br>
> Is ASU "the* ship[ping s/w load?<br>
><br>
> yes I know people can and will download new s/w.<br>
> but you'd hope that the Freerunner as shipped would not<br>
> require an immediate s/w reload.<br>
><br>
> Or maybe I'm being too "old skool" ???<br>
> --<br>
> Ron K. Jeffries