<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Joerg Lippmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jl_lists@donalbain.de">jl_lists@donalbain.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sorry, but after a year of waiting I still have an expensive brick that I can<br>
neither use as a proper phone (speaker still WAY to low, too unstable, too<br>
slow, too battery-hungry) nor as a PDA (no usable software available). So I<br>
really regret my decision to buy it. But then again, it was touted as a real<br>
phone for end-users back then and being a happy Linux-User for 14 years, I<br>
thought that I could live with some minor flaws...</blockquote><div><br><br>My experience has been quite different - I've found the OM to be quite a reliable phone with both the QtE distro, and with the recent OM2009 testing releases. I did have to update the alsa config to get decent audio quality (my FR is off for a buzz-fix now, so hopefully I'll have even better audio when I get it back). Both QtE and the most recent OM2009 TR5 are quite stable, and I get about 36-48 hours on standby, which is consistent with my wife's iPhone.<br>
<br>QtE was perhaps a smoother, prettier user experience, but was lacking quite a few applications - although I see that some people are working to allow X based apps to run with QtE, which might have a very nice result. <br>
<br>The only real gap I find with OM2009 is that I haven't found a calendar app that supports syncml, I haven't managed to get bluetooth working, and I've had some problems with wifi. From that I've got quite a bit of useful software - a browser that works reasonably well (woosh) albeit a little slow on a gprs link, pretty good gps support, some fun games, a decent pdf viewer, etc.<br>
<br><br></div></div>Warren<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist<br><a href="http://www.synergisticimages.ca">http://www.synergisticimages.ca</a><br>