2009/6/23 Brian C <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brianwc@ocf.berkeley.edu">brianwc@ocf.berkeley.edu</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I can buy a $20 pay-as-you go phone that has reliable SMS and voice<br>
calls, audible call volume, decent battery life, a fast boot process,<br>
reliable input method, a working calendar, and a few silly games. This<br>
made me believe that the software side of things was relatively easy.<br>
("If that cheapo phone can do it, the Freerunner developers will have<br>
these kinks worked out in no time" I thought.) Maybe, as Joerg<br>
acknowledges too, all these little things ARE working on some distro or<br>
other or can be fixed by someone willing to tweak it "for three months"<br>
but in all this time I haven't been able to just flash the thing and get<br>
everything to work as reliably as my $20 junk phone. This has surprised<br>
me.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>When I bought my FR (around november), QtExtended worked as you describe. It had everything that a phone needs. I think it was pretty reliable too, except the duplicating sms bug. But that's not a big deal I think.</div>
</div><br>I didn't use it a lot just because you couldn't hack it as much as Om or SHR. But the wiki said: if you want a reliable phone, and just a phone, use QtExtended.<br>