<div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/17 David Murrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmurrell@waikato.ac.nz">dmurrell@waikato.ac.nz</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Brolin,<br>
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Fundamentally, at this point, my Openmoko Freerunner fails the Not<br>
Interested in Technology - Significant Other Acceptance Procedure,<br>
otherwise known NIT-SOAP.</blockquote><div><br>That is not a problem for me because I am single. :) <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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If you want a phone that is going to Just Work, get a Nokia.</blockquote><div><br>I already have a Nokia, but it lacks many of the features I used on my Palm Z22. My Nokia is Series 40, though, not Series 60. I have never used Series 60. I asked Nokia whether they have a GSM phone with all of the specific features I listed in my original post. They said they do not, but they did not mention which features they lack.<br>
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If you want a Linux smart phone to hack about on, an Openmoko Freerunner<br>
fits the bill quite nicely, except for the animation speed on the<br>
screen, which is markedly slow.<br>
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I should probably be specific here - the phone is almost certainly going<br>
to need flashing when you get it, and that's going to require a command<br>
line.<br>
You're probably going to want to change something to get something<br>
working, and that's going to require running ssh to connect to the phone<br>
on the command line, and changing something, somewhere.</blockquote><div><br>That is also not a problem: I work as a Webmaster and Linux + Windows sysadmin for Techsol, which is an embedded computer hardware company that specialises in Linux on ARM technology. Our SA2410 Medallion CPU Module uses the Samsung S3C2410AL. See <<a href="http://medallionsystem.com/">http://medallionsystem.com/</a>>. This site has multiple usability issues, though. I am almost done the redesign, which is more focused on products and features only 1 product per page.<br>
<br>Anyway, I have experience with flashing firmware and using the CLI via SSH. For example, I installed and configured DD-WRT on a Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 a few months ago. I use the CLI on Debian Linux or Ubuntu almost every day. I use gvim to edit the XML source for Techsol’s Web sites. I love Vim because I can do everything with only the keyboard.<br>
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